Fr. Paul A. Monahan
Retired in 2004. Working as St. Albert High School chaplain when arrested at age 83 in 8/2016, charged with invasion of privacy after he was accused of watching five high school boys use the bathroom at a track meet in 4/2016. Suspended from ministry. Monahan had been a teacher, and principal at the school in the 1970s. Assigned also during his career to Dowling Catholic High in West Des Moines, St. Mary in Avoca, St. Patrick in Walnut, Holy Family in Council Bluffs and Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Glenwood. Found guilty in 12/2016. Sentenced in 2/2017 to a 30 days suspended jail sentence on each count, to be served concurrently, a year of informal probation and to register as a sex offender for 10 years. Conviction overturned in 5/2018. Was to be removed from offender registry within 20 days if the state did not appeal the reversal of conviction. Suspension lifted in 6/2018.
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