Fr. James H. Dowdy
Accused in 1993 of sexual abuse in the late 1970s – early 1980s. Dowdy admitted to sexually abusing two minors. One man said he was age 16 when the abuse began, and that it continued for eight years. Dowdy was removed from ministry and his faculties were removed. Sent to St. Luke’s 1/1994-7/1994, where he admitted to sexually abusing boys. In 5/2023 a man said his abuse by Dowdy began when he was a 10-year-old altar boy and continued over four years. His name appeared on the Baltimore archdiocese’s 9/2002 list of priests and brothers accused of sexually abusing minors. Included in the MD Attorney General’s 4/5/2023 report.
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