Fr. Charles E.F. Hoefner
Assigned for 39 years to St. Ignatius Loyola Church in Manhattan. Died in 1992. Accused in a 2019 lawsuit of sexually abusing a a boy, age 14, over a two-year period in the 1970s. The boy was a Horace Mann Prep School student whose music teacher allegedly forced him to join the choir at St. Ignatius Loyola. Per Hoefner’s accuser, the abuse occurred after choir practice behind locked doors and included rape and violent spankings, and Hoefner watching as other men took turns assaulting him. Further, the music teacher allegedly took the boy to Church of the Sacred Heart in Yonkers to participate in a brass quartet, and was there sexually abused by three Capuchin Franciscan monks. Hoefner’s accuser was one of dozens of Horace Mann alumni alleging abuse at the school by staff members.
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