Fr. Francis Pucci

On leave 10/1987-2/1992 for ‘health reasons.’ Charged 11/1988 with indecent assault of boy in 1986 at the Marianna parish house, and with conspiracy for letting Fr. Richard Zula have sex with a boy at a parish Pucci pastored. Charges dropped on SOL. Banned from public ministry; retired in 2/1992. Died 4/5/2002. Report in 4/2002 that Pucci fondled a boy at St. Vitus school in 1962. Report in 2/2004 to D.A. that Pucci sexually abused a boy in 1988. At least three men alleged separately between 2014 and 2016 that Pucci abused them as boys at a Coraopolis parish. Named in the 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report. Per the GJ, Pucci was part of a ring of priests who “raped children, shared intelligence on potential victims and [made] child porn.. .” The abuse involved whips, chains and alcohol. They gave their “favorite boys” big gold crosses to wear that would signal them as targets for abuse. Lawsuit in 11/2019 claiming abuse over three years in early 1980s of two boys, starting when they were ages 11 and 13, at St. Alphonsus in McDonald. Included on the diocese’s list of credibly accused.