Fr. Oswald E. Romero
First named publicly as accused in the 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report. In 4/2006 a 53-year-old man told the diocese that when he was ages 13-14 in 1966 or 1967, Romero sexually abused him. Romero was assisting at the time at St. Regis in Oakland, PA. The man said the abuse occurred under the guise of driving lessons, and that Romero fondled and performed oral sex on him. Romero retired in 1993 and died in 1997. Included on the Diocese’s list of accused.
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