Fr. Stephen E. Jeselnick

Name included on the Erie diocese’s list 4/6/2018. Included in the 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report. Jeselnick was accused in 2017, along with a former seminarian, Jack Tome, of sexually abusing of three boys, who were brothers, in the late 1970s in Meadeville PA. Jeselnick strongly denied the allegations and said he had never heard of Tome. Transferred to the Denver archdiocese beginning in 12/1982. Became an Air Force chaplain in 1985. In 1991 a man told the diocese that Jeselnick sexually abused him when he was a vulnerable 20-year-old whose father was dying. The man sued and received a settlement in 2005. Jeselnick was reported in 2018 to be living in Colorado Springs and forbidden to function as a priest. Added in 9/2018 to the Baltimore archdiocese’s list. “Father D” in CO A.G. report 10/22/2019. Mentioned in the 4/5/2023 MD Attorney General’s Report.