Fr. Luke Wesley Duncanson

Order: OSB
Ordained: 1956
Status: Accused

Died: 02/26/1979
Diocese: Archdiocese of Newark NJ

“Wesley” also “Wesley J.” Ordained for the Benedictine order. Known to have been assigned in South Dakota, New Jersey, Maryland, and Washington D.C. Appears to have left the order at some point. Accused of sexually abusing a boy, age 11, in 1971 in Bayonne NJ. In 2024 Duncanson’s victim published a memoir, “My Fathers: Letters of Healing on a Quest for the Truth.” Duncanson died in 1979.


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