Fr. John K. Rogers
Noted religious scholar and former campus minister at Humboldt State University. Died by suicide 11/8/1995 in Belgium upon being ordered back to the US to face allegations that he sexually abused a 15-year-old boy in 1976. His suicide note declared innocence but said the pain and embarrassment were too much to handle. His accuser said he first complained in 1989 and again in 1995; he died of drug abuse about six years after Rogers’ death.
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