Fr. Charles J. Ruffenach
First named as accused in the 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report. Included on the Allentown diocese’s 8/19/2018 list of credibly accused. Retired in 1979. Died in 1980. A man told the diocese in 8/2001 that Ruffenach sexually and physically abused him beginning in about 1945, when the man was a St. John the Baptist school first-grader and continuing through eighth grade.
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