Fr. William B. Yockey
First named publicly as accused in the 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report. In 1991 a 25-year-old man told the diocese that when he was age 16 in 10/1981 Yockey sexually assaulted him and that the same thing happened to his friend in 1983, as an 18-year-old high schooler. He said Yockey would take the boys to his cabin to go fishing, and that the two had known the priest since they were in 6th or 7th grade. He said Yockey would always give them beer. Yockey acknowledged the incident with the 16-year-old, but didn’t remember yet didn’t deny an incident with the other youth. Removed from public ministry in 7/1991. Applied to work at a V.A. in 2006 – diocese did not divlulge his history. Another allegation to the diocese 12/17/2013 of abuse by Yockey of a young boy while attending St. Bernadette in Monroeville, where Yockey worked 1978-1983. Found in 9/2018 by a news outlet to be working as a clinical social worker at a counseling center in Ashtabula OH. Suit filed 12/17/2018. Included on the diocese’s list of credibly accused.
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