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Total Individuals: 17


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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.

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.

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.


Br. John Dodd

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Order: CSV
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Las Vegas NV

Named publicly as accused on the Diocese of Las Vegas list 4/11/2019. Retired in 2014. Removed from ministry in 2019. The list notes complaints were to the Viatorians in IL (diocese not specified). No record of allegations against Dodd in NV. Reportedly the subject of one substantiated allegation of abuse, occurring around 1985. Included on the Order's list of credibly accused 10/31/2020, which shows him to be retired and living in a structured environment on a safety plan.

Fr. Robert P. Petekiewicz

Ordained: 1991
Status: Sued

Diocese: Diocese of Las Vegas NV

Transitional deacon in Brooklyn, transferred to the Diocese of Las Vegas in 1987. Ordained for the priesthood in 1991. Accused in a 2009 NY civil suit of abusing a boy for four years, beginning in 1985 when the boy was age 9. Suit dismissed due to the statute of limitations 6/23/2009. On administrative leave from the Las Vegas diocese per its website accessed 2/9/2013. Included on the Brooklyn diocese's list in 2/2019, which notes permanent removal from ministry 9/10/2015. On the Las Vegas diocese's list 4/12/2019, noting that complaints were from the Diocese of Brooklyn and the Diocese of Las Vegas. Removed from ministry in 2008.

Fr. Mark Thomas Roberts

Ordained: 1983
Status: Convicted

Diocese: Diocese of Las Vegas NV

First known incident of abuse occurred in 1996. Removed from ministry in 2002. Accused in a 2002 civil suit of abuse of at least nine teenage boys. Criminally charged with the abuse of five boys. Convicted in 2003. Sentenced to three years probation. Removed from formal probation by court in 8/2004. Ordered to treatment at RECON, a church-run center in MO, despite the fact that one of his victims lived within a 20 minute drive of the site. Included on the Las Vegas diocese's list 4/12/2019.

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.