Fr. Donald J. Starkey
In his victim’s statement for the Santa Fe archdiocese’s bankruptcy proof of claims, an alleged victim stated that Starkey sexually abused him as a boy, on one occasion in 1970. The man said he was staying with his Grandma who gave Starkey permission to take him to a movie. He stated, “[Starkey] sexually assaulted me…I resisted him, and after he had fondled me he gave up…. .” He told his Grandma in 1974, therapists in 1997 and the Archdiocese and his attorneys in 2019. The man said he was also sexually abused by Fr. Barry Finbar Coyle, Brother Thomas and Brother John, and that all of the abuse occurred when he was ages 12-14.
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