Fr. William Martinez
Named publicly as accused in the 10/22/2019 CO Attorney General’s Report. Placed on leave and his faculties removed after admitting in 1993 to sexually abusing a 17-year-old boy 12/1980-1/1981, while assigned to Holy Apostles in Colorado Springs (prior to the establishment of the CO Springs diocese). Martinez was in charge of the parish youth group and the boy was a member. Sent to treatment. Resigned from ministry in 1996. His victim sued and received a settlement in 9/1995. Martinez allegedly abused another teenage boy in 1985 or 1986, while assigned to Annunciation Parish in Leadville. The allegation was reported to the CO Springs Diocese within several years; no action by the Diocese, per the Attorney General. Martinez was voluntarily laicized in 2006.
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