Fr. Donald L. Stavinoha
Ordained: 1970
Status: Convicted
Died: 03/27/2007
Diocese: Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston TX
Worked in the Dioceses of Corpus Christi, San Antonio and Galveston-Houston in TX and in the Diocese of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico. In 1986 a police officer caught Stavinoha performing a sex act on a young boy in a church van in Houston. The boy said it had happened before. Diocese removed Stanihova’s privileges and sent him to therapy. Pleaded guilty in 1988. Sentenced to 10 years in jail; released 3/14/1991 and put on probation. Civil suit filed, settled, and sealed. Returned under supervision to his Order in San Antonio. In 2002 was known to be living at RECON, a MO treatment center. Died 3/27/2007 in Houston, per Oblate newsletter. On Galveston-Houston Archdiocese’s list 1/31/2019.
- Houston Chronicle 05.02.86
- Houston Chronicle 01.08.88
- Washington Post 01.10.88
- Associated Press 01.11.88
- Houston Chronicle 09.28.92
- Dallas Morning News 08.31.97
- St. Louis Post Dispatch 03.03.02
- Houston Press 08.17.06
- Oblate Communications No 465, 04.30.07
- Houston Press 01.14.17
- Houston Press 01.17.17
- Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston List 01.31.19
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