Fr. Francis Stinner

First complaint to the Archdiocese was in 1988 of the sexual abuse of a boy. The boy’s parents complained again in 1995 when they learned Stinner was still active. Removed in 1997 after the allegation became public. The Archdiocese paid a large settlement but didn’t turn the investigative report over to police. Stinner began saying mass again; this privilege was removed in 2002. There are allegedly at least 10 victims of abuse by Stinner,  including rape. Laicized in 2005. Settlements in 5/2017 and 10/2017 as part of Archdiocese’s compensation program. Stinner died in 8/2017. Included on the Archdiocese’s list 4/26/2019. Settlement in 2/2020 in the low six figures in a suit claiming abuse of a boy, age 14, in 1972 while assigned to Burke High School. The boy was a student. Reportedly silenced a former student in 1985 who told him he had been abused by Boy Scouts camp director and Catholic school teacher Michael J. O’Hara. Stinner told the young man to say 10 Our Fathers and 10 Hail Marys, absolved him of his ‘sin’ and told him never to speak of it again. O’Hara was later convicted.