Fr. Roy A. Drake
Accused in 2005 of raping and sodomizing a 13-year-old boy in 1969 on an overnight, prior to a ski trip, while assigned to Fordham Prep in the NY archdiocese. Accused in 2014 of sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy 6/30/1974 while Drake worked at Maine Maritime Academy, in the Portland ME diocese. Also assigned in the dioceses of Boston, Seattle, Grand Rapids or Saginaw, Syracuse, Washington, and Cleveland. Worked at colleges and retreat houses and gave hundreds of workshops and retreats in the US and internationally. Spiritual director in the NY archdiocese. At Vianney Renewal Center in St Louis archdiocese 2006-2008. Died 8/21/2008. On Midwest Jesuit Province list 12/17/2018; single allegation of abuse in the 1980s while at John Carroll University in Cleveland. On the Jesuits Northeast Province list 1/15/2019; reports in 2003 and 2006 of abuse in 1973 and 1968. “Impeded” in 2003.
- Detailed BA Assignment Record
- Jesuits Midwest Province Assignment Record 12.21.18
- Jesuits Northeast Province List 01.15.19
- Post-Standard 10.13.89
- Post Standard 08.13.90
- George Drake 01.08.04
- NY Times 10.21.08
- Fordham Ram 11.07.08
- The Observer 12.11.08
- NY Daily News 10.01.14
- New York Daily News 04.22.16
- The Paper 08.09.16
- Fordham Ram 08.16.16
- Fordham Ram 08.18.16
- Business Insider 11.15.16
- WLBZ 04.17.17
- Jesuits Midwest Province List 12.17.18
- Jesuits Northeast Province List 01.15.19
- Democrat and Chronicle 01.15.19
- Fordham Ram 02.06.20
- Fordham Ram 01.18.21
- Fordham Ram 02.08.23
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