Fr. John Francis Stein
In 1991 a man told the Archdiocese that Stein sexually abused him as a boy hundreds of times over a three-year period at St. Catherine of Siena parish in Iliff, beginning in 1953 when he was age 10. The man received a settlement in 9/1996 with a strict confidentiality agreement. Stein had been convicted in 1946 in Golden CO for “indecent liberties” with a 6-year-old boy. He was sentenced to 18-months in jail; the Archdiocese intervened and he did not serve his sentence. Stein allegedly abused at least three boys while at St. Catherine’s. He was arrested again in 1956 for child sexual abuse, then released on condition that he leave town. He was sent to treatment in Denver, Oshkosh WI, then to the Paracletes in Jemez Springs NM. Per his file, there were at least four victms in NM. Stein was laicized in 1958. He died in 11/2001 at age 84. His obituary referred to him as “Rev.” Stein.
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