Fr. Franz Robier
From Austria. Missionary priest in Brazil for 18 years prior to his arrival in San Diego in 1955; incardinated in 1957. Treated by the Servants of the Paraclete in Jemez Springs NM in 1957, returned to ministry. Several suits were filed in 2003. Accused of abuse, including rape, of as many as 24 girls in the late 1950s-early 1960s. The area was part of the San Diego diocese at the time, later San Bernardino. Robier died in 1994. The first lawsuit set to go to trial in 3/2007 involved allegations by four sisters who were orphans from Germany when allegedly abused in the 1950s. The trial was suspended when the San Diego diocese filed bankruptcy in 2/2007. Robier’s name was included on the San Diego diocese’s 3/2007 list of credibly accused. Claims settled in 9/2007 as part of a $198.1M settlement. Personnel file released in 10/2010.
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