Diocese of Harrisburg PA - BishopAccountability.org

70 Accused in This Diocese

Seminarian Alexander Dario Agudelo Cano

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Status: Accused

Aguledo Cano's name was included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18 of clergy accused of sexually abusing children since 1940. Noted to have been a seminarian, accused of the sexual abuse of a child, and to still be alive.

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Seminarian Francis Allen, II

Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Seminarian. Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Included in the PA Grand Jury report 8/14/19. Report to the diocese in 1989 from a woman that Allen sexually abused her son in the 1970s. She reported the alleged abuse again in 2002. In 1994 another woman told the diocese her son was molested by Allen in 1974-75, when the boy was a 5th-grader. Allen died 10/16/11.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. John G. Allen

Ordained: 1970
Status: Convicted

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Per diocesan records, there were concerns about Allen as early as 1970. Reportedly abused multiple young boys in the 1970s-1990s. Sent for evaluation in 1991. Arrested in 1992 for soliciting sex from an undercover police officer. Other allegations in 1985 of sex with several young men from a local college. Resigned in 2002 after confronted with credible allegations of abusing boy, ages 14-18, starting about 1979. Laicization announced in 6/2006. Included on diocese's 8/1/2018 list. Lawsuit in 8/2018 by a 29-year-old former Penbrook altar boy claiming abuse for 3 years, beginning in 1999. Named in 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report. Arrested in 3/2019, on charges related to claims he abused two young Penbrook altar boys 1997-2002. Pleaded guilty 11/5/2020. Sentenced in 2/2021 to five years' probation and to register as a sex offender for life.

Fr. Francis Bach

Ordained: 1962
Status: Accused

Died: 03/31/2010
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Removed from his ministry with young adults in 1967. On leave for 6 months in 1976, then reassigned. Boy Scout chaplain and campus minister. Retired at age 54 in 1994. Sent to St. John Vianney Center in Downington PA for treatment. Admitted to raping and sexually abusing 14 children, ages 14-16 More people came forward 1994-2016 alleging abuse as children by Bach. Died 3/31/2010 at an assisted living facility in Seaside Point DE. In 2016 a man reported that Bach abused him when the man was was an altar boy in 1960 and Bach was a seminarian. Name included on the Harrisburg diocese's list released 8/1/2018. Named in 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report. Added to Baltimore list in 9/2018; noted to have owned a boat in MD, where abuse occurred. Mentioned in the 4/5/2023 MD Attorney General's Report.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Luis Jesus Barajas Arias

Order: OSST
Ordained: 1982
Status: Guilty plea

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

From Colombia. Assigned to the Harrisburg diocese to assist with the Spanish-speaking population in York and Lebanon. Named as accused by the diocese on its list 8/1/2018. Included in the 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report. Personnel file shows that in 1989 there were concerns about past allegations against him of child sexual abuse. The diocese gave Barajas money to return to Colombia in 11/1989. Laicized. Arrested in VA in 2019 for misconduct in 2013 with a minor. No prosecution. Arrested 10/23/2023 in Elyria OH, charged with gross sexual imposition. Barajas, age 76, was staying with families in the area, presenting himself as a retired priest and conducting 'spiritual ceremonies.' He allegedly inappropriately touched a 15-year-old girl while 'blessing' her. The girl was being treated for cancer. A local priest reported the incident to police. Indicted by a grand jury 11/9/2023. Pleaded guilty 2/13/24. To be sentenced 2/27/24.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. James W. Beeman

Ordained: 1953
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Pastor in Shippensburg and Harrisburg parishes, chaplain in Lewisburg prison and the state mental hospital. Multiple allegations of sexual abuse of girls against him, including rape, some girls as young as age 6. Some were abused while hospitalized. In 2014 Bishop Gainer asked the Vatican not to defrock Beeman. Died 10/1/16 at age 90. Name included on diocese's 8/1/18 list. Included in the PA Grand Jury Report 8/14/18.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Michael X. Bennett

Ordained: 1971
Status: Accused

Died: 12/12/2020
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. Removed from public ministry. Died in 12/20.

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Fr. John P. Bolen

Ordained: 1926
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Monsignor. Died 7/7/66. Longtime pastor of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Conewago Township. Name included on diocese's list released 8/1/18. Accused after his death of having sexually abused a child.

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Fr. John Raymond Bostwick, III

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Ordained: 1969
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Ordained for the Richmond diocese, transferred in 1972 to the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Returned to Richmond in 1985. Sent to the House of Affirmation in MA in 1989, unassigned for about a year. Assigned to the Lafayette, LA diocese 1992-1996 at the request of his friend, a Lafayette Bishop. Accused in 4/1996 of the sexual abuse of a boy 1980-1982 in Harrisburg, PA. Suspended in LA when allegations surfaced and he was to be sent to treatment. Sent back to Richmond. Another allegation made in 8/1996, of attempted molestation of a 14- to 15-year-old boy in VA in the summer of 1987. Name included on the Harrisburg diocese's list released 8/1/2018. Included in 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury report. Added 9/2018 to the Baltimore archdiocese's list. On Richmond diocese's list 2/13/2019. Included in the 4/5/2023 MD Attorney General's Report.

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Fr. Frederick R. Bradel

Ordained: 1947
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Principal of Holy Family School in Harrisburg beginning 1958, and administrator of the parish. Died 1997. Name in included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Accused after his death of inappropriate behavior toward a child over several years.

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Fr. Joseph A. Bradley

Ordained: 1944
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Monsignor. Worked in Lancaster, Gettysburg York, and Mount Carmel. At Our Lady of Mount Carmel 1963-1996. Diocese announced 8/6/18 that Bradley's name was added to its list first released 8/1/18, due to an allegation against him of child sex abuse. Deceased. Allegation reported after his death.

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Rev. Martin T. Brown

Ordained: 1957
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. Last shown in the Official Catholic Directory as at St. Joseph's in Milton PA 1977-78. Deceased.

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Diocese of Harrisburg List 04.03.20

Fr. Ronald Chiasson

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Order: OMI
Ordained: 1976
Status: Accused

Died: 04/22/1999
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

In later 2018 a man told the PA A.G. that Chaisson sexually abused him beginning when he was a 12-year-old altar boy at St. Margaret Mary in Harrisburg in the 1970s. He said the priest groomed him with gifts and special attention and that the abuse occurred over a three-year period, in the rectory and on a road trip to Novia Scotia. He said Chiasson rubbed his body with oil, plied him with alcohol, possibly drugged him, and took photos of him nude. Chaisson died in 4/22/99. Per his obituary, Chaisson was "heavily involved in youth ministry" at St. William's in Tewksbury, MA 1980-85, was a Navy chaplain 1987-90 and, for eight years until his death, was chaplain at Donovan State Prison in San Diego, CA. He was also assigned to Most Precious Blood parish in Chula Vista. Included on the Harrisburg diocese's list in 4/20.

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Fr. Donald W. Cramer

Ordained: 2001
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Name included on diocese's list released 8/1/18. Included in the PA Grand Jury Report 8/14/19. Investigated by Homeland Security for possible child porn and federal law violations. Investigation dropped when child porn not found on Cramer's computer. Cramer did reportedly tell someone online in CT who was charged with child porn possession that he wanted to go to Mexico to "rent" boys. Dispensed from the priesthood in 11/14.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Patrick A. D’Alessandro

Ordained: 1980
Status: Accused

Died: 04/28/1996
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Ordained at age 57, after a career in the U.S. Army. Prior to seminary spent over seven years as a brother of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, leaving that order to join the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary for several years. Died 4/28/96. Accused after his death of the sexual abuse of a child. Name included on the Harrisburg diocese's list of accused released 8/1/18.

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Deacon John A. Rocco

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Ordained: 1978
Status: Accused

Died: 08/26/2002
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. Ordained to the permanent diaconate in 1978. Assigned to St. Joseph's in Mechanicsburg, St. Pius X in Selingsgrove, then St. Jude's in Mifflintown. Died 8/26/02.

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Fr. Philip DeChico

Ordained: 1974
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Assignments included principal at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional High School in Shamokin 1979-86, principal at Lebanon Catholic High 1986-96, Gettysburg College campus minister. Worked at parishes in York, Mt. Carmel, Harrisburg, Gettysburg (Bonneauville). Died 2/25/06, age 57. Name included on diocese's list released 8/1/18. Accused after his death of having sexually abused a child.

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Fr. Raymond E. Dougherty

Ordained: 1944
Status: Sued

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Deceased. Name included on diocese's list released 8/1/18. Accused after his death of having sexually abused a child. Lawsuit filed in 7/19 claiming Dougherty and another priest, Walter Sempko, of raped an altar boy repeatedly at St. Joseph's in the early 1960s.

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Fr. Joseph H. Driscoll

Order: CSsR
Ordained: 1922
Status: Accused

Died: 04/13/1976
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Navy chaplain, assistant in SC, Washington DC, PA and MA. Pastored in SC, FL, GA and NY. Died 4/13/76 in New Smyrna Beach, FL, Name included on Harrisburg diocese's list released 8/1/18. Accused after his death of having sexually abused a child.

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Fr. Paul R. Fisher

Ordained: 1977
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Admitted to visiting some websites possibly with images of unclothed minors. FBI found no criminal images. Reinvestigated, some images turned over to the D.A., who concluded Fisher's computer did not contain criminal images. Name included on diocese's list released 8/1/18. Included in the PA Grand Jury Report 8/14/19.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Vincent J. Smith

Ordained: 1955
Status: Accused

Died: 02/8/2020
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Monsignor. Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. Died 2/11/20.

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Fr. Joseph G. Gotwalt

Ordained: 1932
Status: Accused

Died: 04/22/1988
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Monsignor. Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. Died 4/22/88.

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Diocese of Harrisburg List 04.03.20

Fr. Stanislaus J. Grondziowski

Order: CSSp
Ordained: 1940
Status: Accused

Died: 08/21/1994
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. Died 8/21/94. Per his obituary, Grondziowski was assigned to Our Mother of Consolation in Mount Carmel 1941-55, and again 1966 until he retired in 1989. Also reportedly assigned 1955-66 to Immaculate Heart of Mary in Pittsburg. Noted to have been "involved in Scouting and youth work."

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Fr. Lawrence C. Gross

Ordained: 1953
Status: Accused

Died: 03/24/2009
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Named publicly as accused by the diocese on its list in 4/20. Died 3/24/09. Per his obituary, Gross had a "long career in Boy and Girl Scouting, starting in 1939."

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Deacon Donald Hackman

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Ordained: 1983
Status: Convicted

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Ordained a permanent deacon. Convicted in federal court of sending child pornography. Assigned to St. James in Lititz 1983-2000. Name included on diocese's list released 8/1/18. Included in the PA Grand Jury report 8/14/18.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Joseph Hager

Ordained: 1934
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Monsignor. Pastor of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Lebanon PA. for 36 years. Retired 1976. Died 4/6/92. Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Accused after his death of having sexually abused a child.

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Fr. Thomas Ronald Haney

Ordained: 1958
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Accused of inappropriate touching and comments toward a child. Died 6/16/12. Accused after his death of having sexually abused a child. Per obit, was a "prolific writer, homilist, educator." Principal of Our Lady of Lourdes Regional High School in Coal Township beginning in 1967. Edited the diocesan paper 1975-2006. Parish assignments in Lancaster, Columbia, Steelton Shamokin and Ranshaw. Pastor 1976-1981 in Palmyra,and 1981-1985 in Steelton. Was also at Harrisburg and New Cumberland parishes. Retired 2006. Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Included in 8/14/18 PA Grand Jury Report.

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Fr. William T. Haviland

Ordained: 1962
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Assisted in York, McSheerystown, Leanon, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Shamokin parishes. Chaplain at South Mountain Geriatric Rehab, Geisinger Med Center in Danville and Mt. Alto College, Pastor in Gettysburg, Lancaster, Steelton, Sunbury, Northumberland and administrator in Enhaut and Lewisburg. Retired 2010, lived at Elysburg parish, then a Bishop Datillo Retirement Center for priests. Died 2/22/17. Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18, noted to have been accused of the sexual abuse of a child.

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Fr. John Herber

Order: CPPS
Ordained: 1968
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Priest of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. Shown in the Toledo OH diocese in the 1989 Catholic Directory. Last shown the in 2012 Directory, at a Carthagena OH parish, Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Name on Harrisburg diocese's list released 8/1/18, noted to have "multiple allegations of sexual abuse of children." The list erroneously notes that he was deceased; he died in 2020 and is buried in Carthagena, OH. Included in the PA Grand Jury Report 8/14/18.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Seminarian Philip A. Hower

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Ordained: 2024
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Seminarian studying at Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus OH in 1985, assigned to a parish in Sellinsgrove PA. Removed. Filed a RICO lawsuit in 2004 against the U.S. Church, claiming he was blocked from ordination for blowing the whistle on homosexual priests. The case was settled in 2005. Hower's name was included on the Diocese of Harrisburg's list released 8/1/18. Included in the PA Grand Jury Report 8/14/18. It revealed that Hower's sister told the diocese in 1988 that Hower molested her son when the boy was ages 5-7. Hower was a seminarian in 1988 for the Tucson diocese. Harrisburg informed Tucson. Hower was not ordained.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Francis Hudak

Ordained: 1955
Status: Accused

Died: 08/20/2005
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Monsignor. Assigned to parishes in Kulpmont, Lancaster, Elizabethtown, York, Mount Carmel, Selinsgrove, Harrisburg, Shamokin, York Haven and New Oxford. Died 8/20/05. Name included on dioceses's list released 8/1/18. Accused after his death of having sexually abused a child.

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Fr. Kevin L. Kayda

Ordained: 2013
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

In 9/13 a parent reported to the diocese concerns that Kayda was having inappropriate interactions with their minor daughter on Facebook. The diocese confronted Kayda and had his computer forensically examined. Pornographic images of adolescents were found, as well as internet visits to child porn websites. Kayda died by suicide 10/3/13 at age 27. He wrote several suicide notes which alluded to his having been an abuse victim. He did not name his abuser. Named as accused by the diocese on its list 8/1/18. Included in the PA Grand Jury Report 8/14/18.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Joseph F. Klespis

Ordained: 1955
Status: Accused

Died: 01/17/2020
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Named publicly as accused on the Diocese of Harrisburg's list in 4/20. Had already been laicized for other reasons when diocese received allegations. Left the priesthood after nearly 25 years and married. Died 1/17/20, age 95.

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Fr. George J. Koychick

Ordained: 1949
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Assistant at parishes in Harrisburg, Mt. Carmel, York, Mechanicsburg. Pastor in Williamstown, York, Palmyra. Chaplain of PA Industrial School in Camp Hill 1957-62. Allegations in 2003 of child sexual abuse in 1970s, deemed 'credible' by diocese. Diocese did not make this public until 8/16; said Koychick was already retired in 2003, law enforcement notified, and Koychick forbidden to function as a priest. Name on diocese's list released 8/1/18. Included in the PA Grand Jury Report 8/14/18.

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Fr. Victor Kriley

Order: OFM Cap
Ordained: 1964
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Named publicly as accused by the diocese on its list in 4/20. Missionary in New Guinea 1964-1985; appears to have spent the remainder of his priesthood in PA. Per the list, Kriley was possibly deceased. A 12/21 church bulletin for St. Francis of Assisi in Cabot, PA (Diocese of Pittsburgh) shows Kriley's name listed under sick, suffering or homebound members of the parish community in need of prayer.

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Fr. Thomas J. Kujovsky

Ordained: 1957
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Monsignor. Pastored many parishes. Principal of Holy Spirit School in Mt. Carmel. Head of archives at the Diocesan Center, on diocesan Marriage Tribunal. Allegation of pornography in Kujovsky's room with an image of a nude altar boy. Another time, a book of animated pornography was found in his room that appeared to show child sex abuse. D.A. determined that it was not criminal. Died 3/28/15. Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Included in the 8/14/18 Grand Jury Report.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Seminarian Kevin Labuda

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Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Labuda's name was included on the Harrisburg diocese's list released 8/1/18. Accused of the sexual abuse of a child. Reportedly a seminarian for two weeks. Convicted in 2010 of beating a priest with an ax handle for whom he was working as a business manager in a Greensburg diocese parish. Sentenced to 2-4 years in state prison. Per news accounts, Labuda claimed he was removed from the seminary due to injuries he had suffered in a motorcycle accident.

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Fr. Thomas F. Lawler

Ordained: 1955
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Accused of the sexual abuse of multiple boys throughout his priesthood. Moved frequently until his last 16 years at Sacred Heart in Lewisburg. Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Included in the 8/14/18 PA Grand Jury Report. One man told the diocese in 2002 that Lawler molested him at age 10 in 1963. In 2014 another man reported that Lawler sexually abused him from age 13 in 1985 until Lawler died in 1987.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. George V. Lentocha

Ordained: 1955
Status: Accused

Died: 05/26/1997
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Monsignor. Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. Died 5/26/97.

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Diocese of Harrisburg List 04.03.22

Deacon Robert Logue

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Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Deacon. Name included on diocese's list released 8/1/18. Accused of inappropriate communications with a child. A 1968 memo in Logue's personnel file noted that Logue was accused by a 13-year-old boy and his father of asking the boy in to expose his genitalia. Logue "admitted his tendencies." Included in the PA Grand Jury Report 8/14/18.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Arthur J. Long

Order: SJ
Ordained: 1955
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Included on the Harrisburg diocese list 8/1/2018, and in the 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report. Noted have been accused of soliciting a child for sex, and in a sexual relationship with an adult that began when the adult was a child. Complaints to diocese in 1987 that Long sought sex with a 17-year-old girl four years prior. Also accused of inappropriate sexual behavior with a 13-year-old girl. Chaplain of a Danville convent attached to a girls' high school at the time. Admitted to sex with 'four or five' girls since assigned to Baltimore. Removed from ministry after new superior learned of his history. Sent to Guesthouse then St. Luke's for treatment. Allowed to work in Baltimore archdiocese 1991-1992 briefly until more reports of inappropriate behavior. Left community for vacation, never returned. Died in 2004. Added 9/2018 to Baltimore list. Included in 12/2018 on the Jesuits Maryland Province list. On Scranton diocese's list 12/22/2018. Mentioned in the 4/5/2023 MD Attorney General's Report.

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Jesuits Maryland Province List 12.17.18

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Fr. David H. Luck

Ordained: 1987
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Family alleged abuse in 12/88 of their sons while a deacon at St. Paul's in Annville. Sent in 2/89 to St. Luke's in MD. Removed from ministry by diocese in 1990. Laicization announced 6/06. Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Per news in 2/19, allegedly raped a 15-year-old boy and fondled an 11-year-old boy in the late 1980s. Also said to have told people he fantasized about sex with boys and was a pedophile. Went on to work for more than two decades for York County as a caseworker in the Human Services Department for Mental Health/Intellectual and Development Disabilities. Fired in 9/18 after the 8/18 release of the PA Grand Jury Report. Living in 2/19 in a residential neighborhood.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Robert J. Maher

Ordained: 1937
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Monsignor. Assisted and pastored parishes throughout the diocese. Longtime Superintendent of Diocesan Schools, and member of Diocesan Examiners of Clergy. Resided many years at an orphanage for girls. Resigned 1975. Accused of the sexual abuse of at least 15 boys ant St. Vincent's in Hanover. More allegations surfaced after his death. Died 6/19/90. In 8/16 the diocese publicly acknowledged that in 1994 it had received credible allegations of child sexual abuse against Maher, said to have occurred in the 1960s. Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Named in the 8/14/18 PA Grand Jury Report.

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Fr. Daniel Joseph Mahoney

Ordained: 1952
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Died 7/4/07, age 80. Assigned to Holy Name of Jesus parish for 34 years. Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Accused after his death of the sexual abuse of a child. Included in the PA Grand Jury Report 8/14/18.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Guy D. Marsico

Ordained: 1973
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

In 1994, a man told the diocese that he had been abused by Marsico in 1982 at age 13. Marsico was assigned to St. Leo the Great in Rohrerstown and later to St. Rose of Lima in York. Diocese investigated and removed Marsico from active ministry without privileges. Diocese arranged for Marsico to pay for man's therapy and medication. It denied him any type of settlement because it said it had no knowledge of the sexual abuse at the time it happened. The man testified before a grand jury in 10/16 for the state A.G.'s investigation of 6 PA dioceses. He said that the D.A. in the late 1990s told him there were other Marsico victims. In 2011 Marsico was reportedly a Harrisburg travel agent. Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Anthony J. McGinley

Ordained: 1945
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Noted to be the subject of multiple allegations of sexual abuse of children. Worked in Harrisburg parishes until 1970. Professor of psychology and education at Marymount College of VA and professor of psychology and statistics at Georgetown University. Retired in 1987, lived in Central PA. Died 8/12/06. Included in the PA Grand Jury Report released 8/14/18.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Francis T. Menei

Ordained: 1967
Status: Accused

Died: 06/6/2019
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. Died 6/6/19. Per his obituary, Menei was a priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia 1967-79, and taught at Cardinal Dougherty High School 1969-79. He became a prison chaplain in Philadelphia then the entire state 1979-2002. Transferred to the Diocese of Harrisburg, pastor of St. Richard's in Manheim until retirement in 2014.

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Fr. Ibarra C. Mercado

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Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Included in the PA Grand Jury Report released 8/14/18. Military archdiocese informed Harrisburg in 1994 that Mercado was accused of french kissing a 12-year-old girl on the grounds of the Lebanon V.A. Hospital. Per the Catholic Directory, Mercado was assigned to the V.A. in the early 1990s.

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Fr. Neil J. Murphy

Ordained: 1957
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Name included on diocese's list released 8/1/18. At St. Rose of Lima in York 1958-61. Deceased. Accused after his death of the sexual abuse of a child.

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Fr. James E. Noel

Ordained: 1954
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Died in 1980. Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Accused after his death of the sexual abuse of a child. Assigned late 1950s-early 1960s to St. Mary's in Lebanon.

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Fr. Lawrence R. Overbaugh

Ordained: 1955
Status: Accused

Died: 02/23/2008
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Monsignor. Parish priest, high school chaplain and principal, Boy Scouts chaplain. Held a number of chancery positions. Included on Diocese of Harrisburg's its list of accused in 4/20. Died 2/23/08.

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Fr. Joseph M. Pease

Ordained: 1961
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Accused in 1995 of the sexual abuse of a minor in about 1972. Kept in ministry. Removed in 12/02 due to a credible accusation and his admission of having sexually abused an adolescent 30 years prior. Two other men then came forward to allege abuse by Pease. The Vatican had not yet ruled on his case as of 2007. Bishop Gainer asked Vatican to impose a 'life of prayer and penance.' Pease's name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Included in the 8/14/18 PA Grand Jury Report. Abused throughout his career, at 10 parishes. Gainer decided to request laicization for Pease in light of the GJ report.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Charles Procopio

Ordained: 1956
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Subject of an allegation that he "was inappropriately touching and kissing minors." Included in the PA Grand Jury Report 8/14/18. Accused in 1965 of molesting 7th- and 8th-grade girls at Sacred Heart of Jesus in Harrisburg. The girls reportedly told their principal, who did nothing. Someone reported the molestations to a Fr. McAndrew, who informed the Chancery of "immodest touches" by Procopio toward the girls. Msgr. McGovern wrote that "the more recent actions received a distorted interpretation in the highly imaginative minds of pubescent girls." Procopio was kept in ministry and retired in 1995. Deceased.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Guido Miguel Quiroz Reyes

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Order: OFM
Ordained: 1944
Status: Accused

Died: 05/15/2008
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Assigned to Apostolate for Spanish Speaking People in Lancaster, PA 1976-80. Moved in 1980 to the Diocese of El Paso, TX and by 1984 was in the Diocese of Victoria,TX, where he was incardinated in 1986. It notes that he died 5/15/08. Name included on Harrisburg diocese's list released 8/1/18. Noted to have multiple allegations of child sex abuse against him. Included in PA Grand Jury Report 8/14/18. On the El Paso and Victoria dioceses' lists 1/31/19.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Stephen M. Rolko

Ordained: 1957
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Pastor from 1975 until his death of Holy Trinity in Columbia PA. Died 12/4/93. Assigned to St. Rose of Lima in York 1961-64. Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Accused after his death of having sexually abused a child.

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Deacon James Rush

Ordained: 1979
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Deacon. Name included on Harrisburg diocese's list released 8/1/18. Included in the PA Grand Jury Report 8/14/18. Affiliated with the NY archdiocese prior to 2001. Accused in 2015 by two women of inappropriate behavior "that crossed boundary lines." Confronted by diocese, retired. Allowed to minister only with "explicit permission." Report to Children and Youth Services and to diocese in 2016 of a recent inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old girl. Behavior allegedly included hugging and kissing the girl, holding her hand, and telling her she was his "girlfriend." Harrisburg diocese determined the behavior was "grooming," not abuse.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Thomas A. Scala

Ordained: 1973
Status: Accused

Died: 10/15/2018
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Chaplain of St. Joseph Hospital in Lancaster 1977-1986. Pastor of St. Columba in Bloomsburg 1989-1994. Name included on diocese's list released 8/1/18, noted to have two allegations of the sexual abuse of children against him. Died in 10/18 in FL.

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Seminarian Bryan Schlager

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Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Seminarian. Accused of inappropriate communications with several children. Known to have been studying in 2010 at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. Name included on diocese's list released 8/1/18. Included in the PA Grand Jury Report 8/14/18.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Walter A. Sempko

Ordained: 1950
Status: Sued

Died: 10/2/2017
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Accused, along with Rev. Raymond Dougherty, in a lawsuit filed in 7/19 by a 67- year-old man of repeatedly raping him as an altar boy at St. Joseph's in the early 1960s. Sempko died 10/2/17, age 94.

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Fr. Herbert J. Shank

Ordained: 1967
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Included in the PA Grand Jury Report 8/14/19. Multiple allegations against him of sexual abuse of boys. One alleged victim said he was a 12-year-old altar boy at St. Patrick's in Carlisle in the 1980s when Shank began sexually abusing him, and that it went on for a year and a half. Another claimed abuse 1971-74. Also took pornographic photos of altar boys and videos of himself assaulting boys. Sent to Institute of Living for treatment in 1994. Shank told a news outlet in 8/18 that he was involved with not "more than very few" and that he had been in treatment. He said, too, that the diocese told him to resign in 11/94. The diocese said it turned the case over to DA's office in 2/95.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Timothy Sperber

Ordained: 1978
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Name included on diocese's list released 8/1/18. Accused in 2004 of the sexual abuse of a 9- to 10-year-old girl around 1979, at St. Joan of Arc in Hershey, PA. She said she told the school principal who became angry and called her "a demon-child." Sperber transferred in 1992 to the Archdiocese of Miami. Went on leave in 1998, left priesthood in 2000. Living in Port Charlotte FL in 8/18, music minister at a Congregational United Church of Christ in Punta Gorda.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Carl J. Steffen

Ordained: 1958
Status: Accused

Died: 07/15/2015
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Diocese knew as early as 1966 of allegations, when Steffen was a high school chaplain. Several parents complained about his behavior with their sons, including fondling. A female student said he spoke to her about masturbation, intercourse and "certain aberrations of the marital act." Transferred 5/1969. More accusation 1993 and 1997 of inappropriate sexual talk to minors. Report in 1993 that in 1968 he touched the genital area of a hospitalized 10-year-old boy. Bishop Dattilo said in 2/2002 there would be no penalty due to "insufficient evidence" of "overt offense." Steffen was warned in 2/2003. Faculties for hearing confessions removed in 2/2009 for inappropriate sexual questioning within the sacrament. Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/2018. Died 7/15/2015. Included in the 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report. Added to Baltimore's list in 9/2018. Mentioned in the 4/5/2023 MD Attorney General's Report.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. John J. Suknaic

Ordained: 1950
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Died 10/10/04, age 82. Name included on diocese's list released 8/1/18. Accused after his death of the sexual abuse of a child.

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Fr. Francis J. Taylor

Ordained: 1954
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Monsignor. Involved with Radio and Television Apostolate, Diocesan Communications Commission, Respect Life Task Force, Commission for Evangelization. Assistant pastor of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Harrisburg, taught at Harrisburg Catholic High School, principal of Lancaster Catholic Hight School. Retired 1996. Died in 1997. Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Accused after his death of the sexual abuse of a child.

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Seminarian John Tokarick, Jr.

Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Seminarian. Name included on the Harrisburg diocese's list released 8/1/18. Accused of the sexual abuse of a child.

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Fr. Frederick J. Vaughn

Ordained: 1937
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

The diocese acknowledged in 2016 that it had received multiple allegations against Vaughn of sexual abuse of young girls. In 4/02 a woman said he molested her two daughters when they were about age 9, 1961-66. In 7/02 he was accused of sexually abusing two sisters, one ages 3-13 during 1961-74, the other when she was 5-10, in 1958-63. Another report 7/04 claimed abuse of a girl, age 11 or 12 in 1958; in 8/04 a report of abuse of another girl. In 5/12 another allegation, of abuse of a girl 1959-63. In 2016 a woman reported abuse at age 11, and that she witnessed Vaughn's abuse of other girls. Name included on the diocese's list released 8/1/18. Included in the PA Grand Jury Report 8/14/18. Vaughn retired in 1986 and died 12/29/92.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Deacon James Vecera

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Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Deacon. Died 1987. Name included on diocese's list released 8/1/18. Accused after his death of the sexual abuse of a child.

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Fr. Cletus H. Wagman

Ordained: 1942
Status: Accused

Died: 07/15/2001
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Monsignor. Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. Died 7/15/01.

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Fr. Salvatore V. Zangari

Ordained: 1944
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Parish priest, became Army chaplain in 1951. Diocese received allegations in 1980 and 1986 of "unwanted sexual misconduct" by Zangari toward adult women. Sent in 1986 to St. Luke's for evaluation. Admitted to fathering a child with a former high school student. No follow-up apparent by diocese. Review by bishop in 2002 of the 1986 evaluation; he said it showed "full proof of [Zangari's] sexual misconduct with minors." Faculties removed. Died 9/23/04. Name included on diocese's list released 8/1/18. Included in the PA Grand Jury Report.

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PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18

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Fr. Richard Zumpino

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Order: CSsR
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA

Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. May be deceased.

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Diocese of Harrisburg List 04.20.22

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