Fr. Joseph deWater
From the Netherlands, where he was ordained. Parish priest, spiritual director for the Catholic Girl Scouts through the 1970s. Was living in the Netherlands in retirement when suspended in 12/2020 by Bishop Aymond, pending the investigation of an allegation of abuse in the mid-1970s of an altar boy. In a 1/2021 interview deWater denied wrongdoing and said the alleged victim should not “dwell on things when he was a young boy.”
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