Fr. Dennis E. Schmitz
Placed on leave in 5/2002 and charged in 6/2002 with improperly touching a teenage youth several times 6/1998-5/1999. Pleaded guilty in 2002. Received a 32-month sentence. Also convicted in another county and sentenced in 1/2003 to 32 months probation. Served as vocations director for the Archdiocese 1994-7/2001. A civil suit against the Archdiocese was settled in 2003. Suit against Schmitz was ongoing. Schmitz agreed to seek laicization. Included on the KS sex offender registry 1/3/2010. On the Archdiocese’s list 1/25/2019. Noted to have been laicized in 2005. In 7/2024 the Archdiocese announced that there were additional substantiated allegations against Schmitz of the sexual abuse of minors and adults, occurring in the late 1990s and 2000s.
- Associated Press 05.02.02
- Associated Press 05.02.02
- Kansas City Star 05.03.02
- Topeka Capital-Journal 05.03.02
- Kansas City Star 05.04.02
- Topeka Capital-Journal 06.08.02
- Associated Press 06.27.02
- Kansas City Star 07.30.02
- Kansas City Star 08.07.02
- Kansas City Star 08.15.02
- Kansas City Star 09.06.02
- Kansas City Star 10.19.02
- Kansas City Star 11.01.02
- Kansas City Star 01.18.03
- Kansas City Star 06.21.03
- Lawrence Journal-World 06.24.10
- Archdiocese of Kansas City KS List 01.25.19
- The Leaven 07.12.24
- Kansas City Star 07.15.24
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