CALIFORNIA
KPCC
[full statement from the archdiocese]
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has cleared a Monsignor of charges of sexual misconduct, the Office of the Vicar for Clergy announced Saturday.
Msgr. Richard Loomis was acquitted of charges of sexual misconduct that were made in 2003, the archdiocese said. A report posted on the archdiocese’s website suggests Loomis was accused of making lewd remarks and attempting to grope a student from his Bible study class, as well as abusing students at a high school when he was a teacher, prior to being ordained.
In a statement posted Saturday, the archdiocese said:
After ten years of exhaustive investigation and canonical trial, a Tribunal of the Holy See has definitively determined and ruled that no allegations of sexual misconduct of any kind alleged against Monsignor Richard Loomis have been proven. Monsignor Loomis has always professed his innocence of these accusations.
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