Fr. Delisle Lemieux
Monsignor. Named publicly as accused in the CO Attorney General’s report 10/22/2019. In 7/2017 a man told the Archdiocese that Lemieux orally and anally raped him repeatedly when he was a 13-year-old altar boy in about 1969. Lemieux was retired and assisting at Notre Dame Parish in Denver during the time in question, and a family friend. He allegedly invited the boy on a four-day fishing and golfing trip, during which the abuse occurred. Further, Lemieux said to the boy that if he told anyone about the abuse, he would see that his mother lost her job at the church and that the family would lose their house. The archdiocese’s Conduct Response Team found the man “very credible.” Lemieux died in 1977. (Per news reports in 1961, Lemieux shot and killed a man whom he caught stealing from the rectory of St. Catherine’s.)
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