Fr. Paul James Guoan
Named publicly as credibly accused by the Diocese on its list 9/27/2019. Multiple allegations. Removed from ministry 3/11/2002. Sent for a psychological evaluation and treatment. Laicized 6/26/2015. Included in the MI Attorney General’s 12/16/2024 Lansing report. Allegation to the Diocese in 8/1993 that Guoan had recently tried to pull a 17-year-old boy’s swim trunks off at Guardian Angel Camp in Holly MI. Sent in 1994 to addiction treatment in AZ and in 1994 to another. Gouan’s personnel file reveals a note in 12/1992 referring to an allegation of sexual abuse in 1991 of a young seminarian. Accused in a lawsuit in 11/2023 of sexually abusing a boy 1987-1993, beginning when the boy was in 6th grade. The alleged victim reported the abuse to the Diocese in 12/2010. In 2018 another man alleged sexual abuse by Guoan in 1982, at age 16. In 2020 a man reported that Guoan sexually abused him at age 10 in 1992 or 1993 at St. Charles & Helena Parish in Clio MI. In 6/2022 another man alleged abuse, as a 5th grade altar boy 1990-1991 at St. Gerard’s in Lansing.
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