Diocese of Reno NV

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Terry McKiernan February 26, 2021

9 Accused in This Diocese

Fr. Honesto Agustin

Ordained: 1982
Status: Suspended

Diocese: Diocese of Reno NV

Ordained in the Philippines. Placed on leave in 6/2006 from St. Therese of the Little Flower after an allegation of improper conduct with a minor. Investigation dropped prior to 8/2007 after "police investigation cleared him of any criminal wrongdoing." Active priest at St. Albert's Parish in Reno as of 2012. Placed on leave and asked for early retirement in 4/2015 after a nude video of him surfaced on social media.

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Fr. Robert C. Anderson

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Ordained: 1942
Status: Accused

Died: 06/20/1978
Diocese: Diocese of Reno NV

Monsignor. Named publicly as accused by the Reno diocese on its list 4/5/2019. Died in 1978. On the Las Vegas diocese's list 4/12/2019.

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Fr. Eugene Braun

Ordained: 1957
Status: Settled

Diocese: Diocese of Reno NV

Accused in 2005 of abuse of at least 2-3 girls in the mid-1960s at Little Flower Church. He denied all allegations. One of the girls told her mother who alerted another priest. This priest promised that Braun would be "put in a mental hospital." Instead, he left the priesthood "on his own" in about 1975. One of the women settled her claim prior to 8/2007. Included on the Reno diocese's list 4/5/2019, which notes he was removed from ministry in 1974. On the Las Vegas diocese's list 4/12/2019.

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Fr. David Brusky

Order: SDS
Ordained: 1952
Status: Settled

Died: 02/1/2014
Diocese: Diocese of Reno NV

Missionary in Tanzania, East Africa for many years. Also worked in WI, NV and CA schools and parishes. Worked in the Santa Rosa diocese 1981-1985. Accused of abuse in the 1970s of several girls in the Reno diocese at Our Lady of the Snows parish. Sent to St. Luke Institute in MD in 1988 for treatment. The Diocese paid $50K to a woman in 2004 who alleged abuse as a child by Brusky. In 2007 Brusky was living in an assisted living center in Milwaukee. Died 2/1/2014. Included on the Santa Rosa diocese's list 1/12/2019, which notes allegation in 2002 of abuse in the 1980s, reported to the D.A. On the Reno diocese's list 4/5/2019 where he was assigned 1973-1975. On the Las Vegas diocese's list 4/12/2019. On the Sacramento diocese's list 4/30/2019, where he worked 1985-1987, noting reports in 1986 of "sexual misconduct" with young females.

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Reno Gazette Journal 10.09.05

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Fr. Robert D. Despars

Ordained: 1952
Status: Accused

Died: 09/10/1983
Diocese: Diocese of Reno NV

Named publicly as accused by the Reno diocese on its list 4/5/2019. Despars was on leave when he died in 1983. Included on the Las Vegas diocese's list 4/12/2019.

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Fr. William Duff

Ordained: 1963
Status: Accused

Died: 02/20/2005
Diocese: Diocese of Reno NV

Named publicly as accused by the Reno diocese on its list 4/5/2019. Worked in the diocese 1963-1993. Died in 2005. Included on the Las Vegas diocese's list 4/12/2019.

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Fr. Florence Flahive

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Ordained: 1940
Status: Accused

Died: 10/22/1958
Diocese: Diocese of Reno NV

From Ireland. Named publicly as credibly accused by the Reno diocese on its list 4/5/2019. Died in 1958 at age 44. Included on the Las Vegas diocese's list 4/12/2019.

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Diocese of Reno Assignment Record

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Fr. Timothy O. Ryan

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Order: OP
Ordained: 1932
Status: Accused

Died: 08/13/1960
Diocese: Diocese of Reno NV

Named publicly as accused by the Reno diocese on its list 4/5/2019. Member of the Christian Brothers 1912-1918. Ordained for the Vicariate of Alaska in 1932. Worked in the Reno diocese 1953-1959. Died 8/13/1960. Included on the Las Vegas diocese's list 4/12/2019.

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Fr. Harold F. Vieages

Ordained: 1964
Status: Accused

Died: 01/16/2004
Diocese: Diocese of Reno NV

Placed on leave in 1991. Died in 1/2004. Accused in a 2005 lawsuit of fondling and raping a 12-year-old boy at St. Theresa's Elementary School in Carson City in about 1969. Vieages' accuser received a settlement. Included on the Reno diocese's list 4/5/2019. On the Las Vegas diocese's list 4/12/2019.

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