Fr. Eleuterio V. Ramos

Full name Eleuterio Victor Al Ramos, Jr. Priest of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles CA, then the Diocese of Orange when in was created in 1976. In and out of treatment, kept in ministry. Placed on leave in 1985 after admitting to having “slipped”; sent to a Tijuana Mexico parish and put in charge of a children’s ministry. Removed in 1991. Died in 2004. Personnel file released in 1/2013. Wrongful death suit filed in 3/2017 vs the Orange and L.A. dioceses by the widow of an alleged victim who died by suicide in 2015. The abuse was said to have been at St. Joseph’s in Placentia, 1975-1978. The victim was altar boy who met Ramos at age 10. Ramos reportedly told detectives he had abused at least 25 boys. Five lawsuits settled during the 1990s. Five settled in 2004. Settlement in 12/2024 for $10M for a plaintiff claiming abuse as a boy in the 1970s and 1980s by Ramos and Fr. Siegfried Widera. The abuse by Ramos allegedly began when the boy was age five in 1979 or 1980.