Fr. William M. Mannion
Arrested in 3/2025, charged with the sexual abuse of an altar boy 1991-1994 at St. Agnes Parish, beginning when the boy was in second grade at St. Agnes Parish School. Mannion’s accuser filed a police report in 10/2023. Mannion allegedly told the boy that God would punish him if he didn’t comply and that his little brother and parents would go to hell. (In 1993 Mannion reported to the Archdiocese allegations that teacher John Merzbacher had sexually abused a girl, after Mannion’s victim, then an adult, confided in him. Merzbacher was convicted and died in prison in 2023.) Mannion left the priesthood in the late 1990s, married and raised a family. He was reportedly laicized in 2004.
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