Seminarian Michael V. Scriber

Publicly accused in the 4/5/2023 MD Attorney General’s Report, name redacted. Appears in the report as #156. Attended seminary, left for academic reasons. Lived at St. Ann’s Parish in East Baltimore while a seminarian in the 1970s, stayed in church housing for many years after leaving seminary. Ran the Youth Program at St. Ann’s, including Cub and Boy Scouts, 1972-1982. In 2003 the Archdiocese received a report that Scriber sexually abused a boy scout, age 11 or 12, in 1976 or 1977. Scriber allegedly made boys take off their clothes, spanked their bottoms and grabbed their penises. In 2003 an unnamed religious order told the Archdiocese that Scriber was interested in joining the order, but would discontinue the process due to the report of abuse. Report in 2021 by a man who said that during a scouting trip in the 1970s Scriber made a boy sleep in his tent; the boy was crying in the morning and his mother had to come get him. In 2022 another man reported that Scriber sexually abused him on a scouting trip when he was age 15 in the 1970s. The man said Scriber would call boys to come to his tent; when it was his turn, Scriber would touch his genital’s and orally rape him. Scriber is referred to in news reports by one alleged victim as “Brother Mike.”