California Priests Accused of Abuse

Sexual abuse has been present in the Catholic Church for decades, including many of the dioceses in California, and their current status regarding these sexual abuse allegations is under scrutiny. To date, hundreds of priests have been accused of child sexual abuse or sexual misconduct across the state of California.

Injury Lawyer Team is committed to seeking justice for California’s sex abuse victims, particularly in cases of alleged sexual abuse involving associate pastors and credibly accused priests. We work with victims of child sexual abuse to ensure religious brothers and credibly accused priests are held accountable, and victims receive the compensation they deserve.

California Catholic Diocese Priest Sex Abuse List

Archdiocese of Los Angeles CA

Sebastian Altamirano Torres

• Accused

From Nayarit, Mexico, Archdiocese of Guadalajara. Named publicly as accused on the Archdiocese of Los Angeles updated list dated December 6, 2018. A report made in 2018 alleged incidents occurring between 1986 and 1992. Records note that Altamirano Torres left the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 1990.

Edward J. Casey

• Sued
  

Accused of abusing three minors between 1974 and 1979 while assigned to Damien Boys High School in La Verne, California. In 2004, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles counted three accusers. Casey was named in at least one civil lawsuit and was laicized, per the Archdiocese’s December 2021 list.

Delfin Babilonia

• Accused
  

From Lucena City, Philippines. Named publicly as accused by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles on its updated list dated December 6, 2018. A report received in 2010 alleged incident(s) occurring in 1962. Babilonia left the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 1963.

John Ralph Moholy

• Accused
  

Named publicly as accused by the Jesuits West Province on its list dated December 7, 2018. A report received in 2003 alleged sexual abuse of a minor in 1960. Moholy was assigned to Loyola University in Los Angeles from 1949 to 1964. He died on November 15, 1997.

Stanislaus Poon

• Accused
  

Named publicly as accused on the Archdiocese of Los Angeles updated list dated December 6, 2018. A report noted in 2013 alleged incidents estimated to have occurred in 1977. Poon was incardinated into the Diocese of Oakland in 1982 and retired from ministry in 1996.

James Richard Robinson

• Accused
  

Accused of having multiple alleged victims in the United Kingdom, beginning when Robinson was in seminary. The first reported complaint dates to 1973. Robinson was transferred in 1986 from the Archdiocese of Birmingham in the UK to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and reportedly worked in five Los Angeles parishes between 1986 and 1993.

Gabriel Salinas

• Accused
  

From Spain and identified as the first Augustinian Father to come to the United States. He worked in Nebraska from 1917 to 1948. Accused of abusing a minor between 1958 and 1960 at Cristo Rey in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Salinas died on November 18, 1972. His personnel file was released on September 9, 2013.

Arturo Federico Ahumada

• Convicted
  

A deacon convicted of providing pornographic material to two boys and committing misdemeanor sexual battery against one of them. Ahumada was sentenced to one year in county jail and five years of felony probation.

Rubin Abaya

• Sued
  

In 1984, a 16-year-old girl filed civil lawsuits against seven Filipino priests in Los Angeles, alleging sexual abuse. One of the priests fathered the girl’s child. A settlement of $500,000 was paid in 2007 related to the case.

Nicolas Aguilar-Rivera

• Charged
  

Ordained in Mexico and serving as an extern priest in Los Angeles in 1987 after prior accusations in Tehuacán, Mexico. A warrant was issued in 1988 for abuse of at least two children. After being confronted by archdiocesan officials, Aguilar fled to Mexico before police were notified. Records later indicated he abused at least 26 boys in Los Angeles. He was laicized in July 2009.

John Bauer

• Convicted
  

Bauer was ordained for the Diocese of Helena, Montana, and left active priesthood in 1970. From 1970 to 1981, he taught social work at Montana State University. In 1981, he opened an adult bookstore and sex shop in Montana and later opened a second adult business in Spokane, Washington. He was later arrested on federal child pornography charges, entered a no-contest plea, received an eight-year sentence, and died in federal custody on October 26, 1992.

Gaspar Bautista

• Accused
  

Ordained in Mexico, Bautista was incardinated into the Diocese of Fresno, California, in 2004. He was placed on administrative leave in March 2016 following allegations of inappropriate behavior involving a minor, with reported conduct dated to 1999–2000. The case underwent canonical review and was formally closed in 2018. He has not returned to active ministry since that determination.

Matthias A. Berumen

• Sued
  

Berumen was accused of sexually abusing a minor during the period from 1985 to 1988. Church records identify one accuser who reported abuse in 1990. He was named in at least one civil lawsuit related to the allegations. Archdiocesan disclosures issued in December 2021 list Berumen as laicized, reflecting formal removal from clerical status.

Honesto Bayranta Bismonte

• Guilty plea
  

Bismonte, a priest from the Philippines, was arrested in 2002 for sexually abusing two sisters, ages 8 and 12. The abuse spanned multiple years. In 2003, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery and was sentenced to two years of probation. He was permanently removed from ministry following the criminal case.

Christopher Berbena

• Settled
  

Berbena was accused of sexual abuse connected to an incident dated to 1980. He was placed on administrative leave in 2006 while the allegation was investigated. In February 2008, he was returned to active ministry after the archdiocese concluded the accusation could not be substantiated. The related civil claim was resolved through settlement.

Robert Bond

• Accused
  

Bond was publicly identified as accused in a disclosure update released on December 6, 2018. Allegations involved sexual abuse reportedly occurring during the 1970s, with the report submitted to church officials in 2010. Bond died in 2007, eleven years before his name was publicly released.

Robert Boley

• Settled
  

Boley was accused of sexually assaulting a young girl in the early 1980s and left his parish role in 2006. Additional allegations described repeated sexual abuse, including rape, of a 10-year-old girl at St. Cyril’s Parish School in Chicago during the 1980s. Civil claims were resolved through a settlement finalized in June 2022.

Jerome Bouska

• Accused
  

Bouska served as a parish priest, high school chaplain, and held chancery positions from 1963 through 2009. He died on November 20, 2010. His name was added to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Final Addendum published on January 31, 2013, which publicly identified additional clergy accused of sexual abuse.

Leland Boyer

• Sued
  

Boyer was sued in 2003 over allegations of sexual abuse occurring between 1973 and 1982. He retired from ministry on January 15, 1994, and was placed on restricted ministry in 1995. His personnel file documented three complaints between 1990 and 2002, with additional complainants later identified. He died on January 14, 2003.

Roy Rivas

• Sued
  

Rivas, a Franciscan friar, was publicly named as accused in November 2023. The disclosure acknowledged allegations of sexual abuse connected to his service within the Franciscan order. His inclusion followed a formal review process and public release of names associated with abuse claims.

John Lawrence Brennan

• Sued
  

Brennan, a monsignor, was accused of sexual abuse occurring between 1954 and 1956. Church disclosures reported one accuser associated with the allegations. Brennan died in 1983. His name later appeared on public lists addressing historical clergy abuse cases.

Brother Mark

• Sued
  

Brother Mark was sued in 2003 over allegations of sexual abuse occurring between 1979 and 1983 at Don Bosco Technical Institute in Rosemead, California, where he served as a teacher and counselor. The alleged victim later died by suicide. The matter proceeded through civil litigation.

Bernard Brown (Lawrence Maria)

• Settled
  

Brown, also known as Lawrence Maria, was accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1955 and 1956. Civil litigation involving the Carmelites, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and seven additional defendants resulted in a $10 million settlement resolving the claims.

Michael Daniel Buckley

• Sued
  

Buckley was accused of sexual abuse occurring between 1965 and 1975. He was named in civil litigation, and his personnel files were released publicly as part of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’s 2007 settlement disclosures. The allegations were addressed through civil proceedings.

Ronald Francis Burt

• Accused
  

Burt was publicly identified as accused on a disclosure list released on March 8, 2019. Allegations involved abuse at Good Shepherd Parish in New York between 1973 and 1979, with reports submitted in 1986 and again in 2018. Burt died on October 24, 1994.

Honorato Cabaong

• Settled
  

Cabaong served as an extern priest from the Philippines and was sued in 1984 over allegations of sexual abuse. His case was resolved through a $500,000 settlement as part of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’s broader $660 million global settlement finalized in 2007.

Ed Byrom

• Sued
  

Byrom, also known as Ed Byron, was a pre-novitiate candidate who left religious formation in 1988. He was later accused of sexually abusing at least one minor at Saint Anthony Seminary. The allegations were addressed through civil litigation.

Samuel Charles Cabot

• Settled
  

Cabot was accused of sexually abusing two young girls, described as cousins, between 1981 and 1985. He was removed from public ministry in 2002. He was later referenced as a possible perpetrator in a civil lawsuit filed in August 2008 involving similar abuse allegations.

James Cairns

• Accused
  

Cairns was accused of sexual abuse occurring between 1971 and 1973. He was later included on a list of credibly accused clergy released in November 2020, formally acknowledging the allegations within his religious order.

Lynn Richard Caffoe

• Settled
  

Caffoe sexually abused altar boys across at least 15 parishes. He was removed from the priesthood in 1991 and received treatment at St. Luke’s Institute. His case was resolved through settlement. He died in 2009.

Cleve W. Carey

• Sued
  

Cleve W. Carey was accused of sexually abusing minors between 1963 and 1966. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles counted two accusers in its 2004 report, and he was named in at least one civil lawsuit. He retired from ministry in 1976. Carey died on May 31, 1988. A personnel-file proffer related to his case was released publicly in January 2013.

Felix (Raymond) Calonge

• Accused
  

Felix “Raymond” Calonge, a Franciscan, was accused of sexually abusing a minor in 1965. He was publicly named as accused on May 31, 2019, on the Santa Barbara Province Franciscans list. His ministry was associated with Franciscan assignments in California during the 1960s, including Santa Barbara-area institutions.

Juan Cano

• Accused
  

Juan Cano was placed on administrative leave in January 2018 after reports that he engaged in inappropriate contact with several women, including a minor, at his parish in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The matter involved an archdiocesan investigation and review by the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office. He has remained removed from active ministry since that time.

Michael J. Carroll

• Sued
  

Michael J. Carroll served at multiple parishes in Southern California. He was sued in 2003 over allegations of sexual abuse involving a minor during parish assignments in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He continued in ministry after the lawsuit. Carroll died in 2011.

David Carriere

• Settled
  

David Carriere, a Franciscan friar, was accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1977 and 1979. The allegations were reported in 2004 and 2006 and involved Franciscan settings in Santa Barbara, California. Civil claims related to the abuse were later resolved. Carriere died in 2000.

John Joseph Casey

• Sued
  

John Joseph Casey was accused of sexually abusing a child between 1944 and 1945. He was named in at least one civil lawsuit connected to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Casey died in 2000 at age 96.

Raul Carvajal Hernandez

• Accused
  

Raul Carvajal Hernandez, originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador, served in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles until leaving in 1982. He was publicly named as accused on December 6, 2018. The allegation reported describes sexual abuse occurring in 1976.

Michael Joseph Casey

• Accused
  

Michael Joseph Casey was publicly named as accused on December 6, 2018. Reports received in 2010 alleged sexual abuse of a minor during the 1960s while he was associated with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Casey died on March 24, 1978.

Gildardo Castellanos-Morfin

• Accused
  

Gildardo Castellanos-Morfin was an extern priest from Mexico who served in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles approximately between 1982 and 1986. He was publicly named as credibly accused by the archdiocese in December 2022. He is recorded as deceased.

Vincent V. Cavalli

• Sued
  

Vincent V. Cavalli was accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1966 and 1968. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles counted one accuser in its 2004 disclosures, and Cavalli was named in at least one civil lawsuit related to the abuse.

Camillus Charles Cavagnaro

• Accused
  

Camillus Charles Cavagnaro, a Franciscan friar, was accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1962 and 1965. The allegation was reported in 2004. He was publicly named by the Santa Barbara Province Franciscans in May 2019 and was also listed by multiple dioceses where he later served.

Willebaldo Castro

• Sued
  

Willebaldo Castro was an extern priest from Mexico who served in Los Angeles-area parishes. He was accused of abusing a 16-year-old boy and later accused of molesting another minor. After the initial allegation, he was reassigned to another parish. He was later arrested after approaching a security guard in a store bathroom for sexual purposes.

David Paul Chandler

• Accused
  

David Paul Chandler was named as accused by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2008 and later included on the Paulist Fathers’ list of credibly accused in 2019. Allegations described sexual abuse of a minor during the early 1980s while he was assigned to St. Paul the Apostle parish in Los Angeles.

Gerald T. Chumik

• Accused
  

Gerald T. Chumik was accused of forcing a boy, ages 12 and 15, to perform oral sex during the 1970s in Canada. Criminal charges were filed in Canada in 1990. He later lived for many years in a Franciscan retirement residence in Santa Barbara, California.

Damien Chong

• Settled
  

Damien Chong was accused of sexually abusing a boy at Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino, California, between 1984 and 1986. The allegation included claims that the victim was supplied alcohol. His name was added to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ Final Addendum on January 31, 2013. Related civil claims were later settled.

Mario (Walter) Cimmarrusti

• Settled
  

Mario (Walter) Cimmarrusti, a Franciscan priest, was accused of sexually abusing numerous boys connected to St. Anthony Minor Seminary in Santa Barbara between 1962 and 1969. Survivors described repeated abuse involving coercion, humiliation, and threats. Civil cases related to his conduct were later settled. He died in 2013.

John V. Coffield

• Sued
  

John V. Coffield was accused of sexually abusing a boy at Dolores Mission in Los Angeles between 1960 and 1962. The allegation surfaced in 2002, and he was named in a civil lawsuit filed in 2003. Coffield died on February 2, 2005, in California.

Eugene J. Colosimo

• Accused
  

Eugene J. Colosimo, a Jesuit priest, was accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1957 and 1959. He taught at Jesuit high schools in San Jose, Phoenix, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles. A separate allegation involving a later incident was reported decades afterward. Colosimo died on April 26, 2006.

Ozias Bailey Cook

• Accused
  

Ozias Bailey Cook was publicly named as accused on December 6, 2018. Reports received in 2010 alleged sexual abuse of a minor occurring in 1974 or 1975. Cook died in 1984.

Candido Corcoles

• Accused
  

Corcoles was an extern priest whose name was quietly added to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Final Addendum published on January 31, 2013. He was one of 24 clergy members added without prior public announcement. The disclosure identified him as accused of sexual abuse of a minor. No dates of alleged abuse were specified in the addendum. His inclusion reflects acknowledgment of the allegation within archdiocesan records.

Andres S. Corral

• Accused
  

Corral was accused of sexually abusing a minor in 1981. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles reported one accuser in its 2004 disclosure. He served as an extern priest from the Philippines while working within the archdiocese. The allegation was documented internally and included in public reporting addressing accused clergy.

John V. Cosgrove

• Sued
  

Cosgrove was accused of sexual abuse occurring between 1979 and 1980. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles reported one accuser in its 2004 disclosure. He was named in at least one civil lawsuit related to the allegation. Cosgrove died in 1989, prior to the release of later disclosure lists.

Patrick J. Cotter

• Sued
  

Cotter was sued in 2003 over allegations of sexual abuse occurring between 1963 and 1964. In its 2004 disclosure, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles reported two accusers associated with the claims. The matter was addressed through civil litigation rather than criminal prosecution.

R. David Cousineau

• Sued
  

Cousineau was accused of sexual abuse occurring between 1970 and 1973. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles reported one accuser in its 2004 disclosure. He was named in at least one civil lawsuit. Cousineau was suspended from ministry in 1994 after he married, ending his clerical service.

Daniel J. Cremins

• Accused
  

Cremins was accused of sexually abusing a minor during the period from 1965 to 1971. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles reported one accuser in its 2004 disclosure. He was deceased at the time of the public reporting of the allegation.

Sean Cronin

• Sued
  

Cronin, originally from Ireland, arrived in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 1972. He was accused of sexual abuse occurring between 1972 and 1980 and was sued in 2003. Cronin was laicized on January 26, 2011, formally removing him from clerical status.

Angel Cruces

• Sued
  

Cruces was sued in 1983 over allegations of sexually abusing one girl. He died in 1996. His personnel files were released publicly in January 2013 as part of broader disclosure efforts addressing clergy abuse allegations.

Jose Luis Cuevas

• Convicted
  

Cuevas, a former Combonian Missionary, was arrested in Mexico in 2012. He was charged with eight misdemeanor counts and one felony count involving lewd acts with a child. He was sentenced to five years of probation, ordered to complete community service, attend sex offender counseling, and register as a sex offender.

Christopher John Cunningham

• Charged
  

Cunningham was removed from his parish in March 2004 without public explanation and reassigned by Cardinal Roger Mahony. He was later included on a list of credibly accused clergy quietly posted on the archdiocese’s website in January 2013. He was accused of abusing four boys, ages 10 to 15, during the mid-1990s through the early 2000s.

Wallace J. Daley

• Settled
  

Daley was accused of sexually abusing a boy and was excardinated from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 1976. He was named in at least one civil lawsuit related to the allegation. The case was resolved through a settlement finalized in 2006.

John H. Dawson

• Sued
  

Dawson was placed on sick leave in 1993 following allegations of sexual abuse. He was sent to the Paraclete treatment center and placed on inactive leave in 1995. Dawson was later named in at least one civil lawsuit connected to the allegations.

John P. Deady

• Sued
  

Deady was accused on April 23, 2002, of sexually abusing one person during the period from 1956 to 1957. The complainant filed a civil lawsuit. Deady had previously served as a U.S. Navy chaplain from 1943 to 1946. He died on March 7, 1989.

Donald DeFore

• Accused
  

DeFore was accused of sexually abusing a minor during the period from 1977 to 1978. The allegation was documented in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles 2004 report addressing clergy abuse claims.

Declan Day

• Sued
  

Day was named in one or more lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse. At the time of reporting, the allegations were under investigation. Subsequent findings indicated no evidence that Day was a priest, though his name appeared in civil filings.

Harold J. DeJonghe

• Sued
  

DeJonghe was sued in 2003 over allegations of sexually abusing a minor between 1980 and 1982. He died in 1998. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles stated it investigated the claims and deemed the allegations unfounded.

Joseph B. Di Peri

• Accused
  

Di Peri was accused of sexually abusing a student at Chaminade High School in Canoga Park during the 1977 to 1978 school year. He died in 2007. His name was later included on the Archdiocese of Newark disclosure list released on February 13, 2019.

James Devaney

• Sued
  

Devaney was accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually abusing a minor between 1968 and 1970. Archdiocesan disclosures released in December 2021 list him as deceased. The allegation was addressed through civil litigation.

Harold F. DeLisle

• Accused
  

DeLisle served at multiple parishes, including St. Genevieve in Van Nuys, St. Andrew in Pasadena from 1960 to 1965, Ss. Peter and Paul in Wilmington from 1965 to 1968, St. Linus in Norwalk from 1969 to 1970, St. Athanasius in Long Beach from 1970 to 1975, St. Didacus in Sylmar from 1975 to 1978, and Our Lady of Grace in Encino from 1978 to 1979. He was later accused of sexual abuse.

William L. Diamond

• Accused
  

Diamond was publicly named as accused on the Archdiocese of Los Angeles updated disclosure list released on December 6, 2018. Allegations received in 2016 described abuse occurring between 1965 and 1974. Diamond died on September 11, 1982.

Frederick Dittmar

• Sued
  

Dittmar was accused of sexual abuse and named in civil litigation. Specific dates of the alleged abuse were not detailed in public summaries. His case proceeded through civil legal channels.

Dan Dobbins

• Sued
  

Dobbins was named in the 2006 Los Angeles Times database of clergy abuse cases. Allegations involved sexual abuse occurring between 1979 and 1980 at Rancho San Antonio in Chatsworth, California. He was included in at least one civil lawsuit related to the claims.

John B. Doherty

• Sued
  

Doherty was accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1967 and 1969. A civil lawsuit was filed in December 2003. His name appeared as “Dougherty” in court filings. He retired from ministry in 1987 and died in 2002.

Roger J. Doherty

• Accused
  

Roger J. Doherty was publicly named as accused by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2014. The allegation involved an incident dated to 1962. The claim was acknowledged in archdiocesan disclosures.

Michael Son Trong Doan

• Accused
  

Doan was accused of sexually abusing a minor in 1999. Church records indicate he was not a member of the Redemptorist Order, despite some public confusion regarding his affiliation.

Arwyn N. Diesta

• Accused
  

Diesta served as an extern priest from the Philippines and was accused of sexually abusing several students. Cardinal Roger Mahony notified Diesta’s bishop in the Philippines, the Vatican, the U.S. military, the Los Angeles Police Department, and Philippine authorities regarding the allegations.

Edward J. Dober

• Settled
  

Dober was accused of improperly hugging a boy during the period from 1990 to 1991. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles deemed the allegation unfounded. His case was included in a settlement reached in 2003 involving 44 individuals.

James E. Dolan

• Sued
  

Dolan was accused of sexually abusing a minor in 1962. He died in 1974. He was named in a civil lawsuit addressing the allegation.

Thomas J. Dove

• Accused
  

Thomas J. Dove, a Paulist priest ordained in 1961, was accused in 2014 of sexually abusing a minor girl between about 1972 and 1977 while assigned to the Catholic Information Center in Los Angeles, where he served from 1965 to 1974. He was removed from ministry, later listed by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Paulist Fathers as credibly accused, and died on October 2, 2020.

Francis Leo Dowd

• Sued
  

Dowd was accused in a civil lawsuit filed in December 2003 of sexually abusing a girl between 1963 and 1964. He was no longer listed in the Official Catholic Directory after 1982. Dowd was deceased at the time of the lawsuit.

Donald J. DuFour

• Sued
  

DuFour was accused of sexually abusing minors between 1977 and 1979 while assigned to Rancho San Antonio Boys Home in Chatsworth, California. He was named in a civil lawsuit related to the allegations.

Albert Joseph Duggan

• Settled
  

Duggan was accused of sexually abusing a boy in 1969 at St. Frances Parish in Azusa, California. He was also accused of abusing a boy at the same parish between 1963 and 1967. The allegations were resolved through settlement.

Joseph Dunne

• Accused
  

Dunne was accused of sexually abusing one person in 1993. Law enforcement authorities did not file criminal charges. Church records indicate Dunne may have returned to Scotland following the allegation.

Donald M. Duplessis

• Sued
  

Duplessis was accused by one person of sexual abuse occurring between 1968 and 1970 while assigned to Servite High School in Anaheim, California. A civil lawsuit was filed. He reportedly died in 2018.

Sebastian C. Elanjimannil

• Accused
  

Elanjimannil was publicly named as accused on the Archdiocese of Los Angeles disclosure list updated on December 6, 2018. The archdiocese recorded a report received in 2018 concerning an alleged incident dated the same year. Records also note that he left the archdiocese in 2007, more than a decade before the allegation was formally reported and disclosed.

Thomas Patrick English

• Sued
  

English, a monsignor, was sued in 2003 over an allegation of sexual abuse dated to 1969. He died in 1975. Following review, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles concluded that the allegation was unfounded. The determination was made internally and documented in archdiocesan records addressing historical abuse claims.

Andrew Gabriel Encinas

• Accused
  

Encinas was publicly named as accused on the archdiocese’s updated list released December 6, 2018. A report received in 2009 alleged incidents occurring between 1993 and 1994. Encinas went on inactive leave in 1998, approximately eleven years before the allegation was formally reported to the archdiocese.

Joseph Eslava

• Accused
  

Eslava’s name was quietly added to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Final Addendum published on January 31, 2013, along with 23 other clergy. Archdiocesan records later noted that he was deceased. No dates of alleged abuse were specified in the addendum, but his inclusion reflected acknowledgment of an abuse allegation.

Mark Epperson

• Sued
  

Epperson was sued and accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1980 and 1982. He later left his religious order in 2005. The allegations were addressed through civil litigation rather than criminal prosecution, and his departure from the order occurred decades after the alleged abuse period.

Patrick Evard

• Sued
  

Evard was publicly named as accused on the Santa Barbara Province Franciscans’ list released in November 2023. He is no longer in ministry. The disclosure reflected a later acknowledgment of allegations tied to his service within the Franciscan order.

Clint Farabaugh

• Sued
  

Farabaugh was publicly named as accused in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles 2004 report. One accuser alleged abuse occurring between 1973 and 1975. He was assigned to St. Agnes Parish in Los Angeles from 1970 until his death on May 13, 1990. At least one civil lawsuit was filed in connection with the allegation.

Mark A. Falvey

• Settled
  

Falvey was accused of sexually abusing at least ten children during the 1950s and 1960s and was named in multiple civil lawsuits. He was included in settlements involving the Jesuits, the Diocese of Sacramento, and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Public allegations also included a claim of abuse involving Rodrigo Duterte during Falvey’s time in ministry.

Donald G. Farmer

• Arrested
  

Farmer was laicized in 1972 and later worked as a marriage and family counselor. He was arrested on allegations of sexually abusing four preteens. Criminal charges were later dismissed. His case involved law enforcement action but did not result in a conviction.

John V. Farris

• Sued
  

Farris attended St. John Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, and served in nine Missouri parishes. He was sued in California in 2003 over allegations of sexual abuse of a youth. Farris died in 2003, the same year the civil suit was filed.

Charles George Fatooh

• Sued
  

Fatooh was accused of sexually abusing a student during the 1973–1974 school year at Chaminade College Preparatory in Canoga Park. He later left the Marianists and went on to serve as a monsignor, chancellor, and moderator of the curia. The allegations were addressed through civil litigation.

John J.C. Feeney

• Accused
  

Feeney died on January 16, 2004. His name was quietly added to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Final Addendum published January 31, 2013. The addendum publicly identified him as accused of sexual abuse of a minor.

Arthur N. Fernando

• Sued
  

Fernando was accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1973 and 1975 while assigned to St. Pius V Parish in Buena Park, California. He was named in at least one civil lawsuit related to the allegation.

Gerald Faue

• Sued
  

Faue, also known as Fr. Mathias, was accused of sexual abuse occurring between 1965 and 1967 at St. Benedict Parish in Montebello, California. He died on January 30, 1988, and was buried at Saint Gregory Abbey Cemetery in Shawnee, Oklahoma. The allegation was addressed through civil proceedings.

Walter Fernando

• Sued
  

Fernando was accused of sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl between 1980 and 1981 while assigned to St. Hilary’s Parish in Pico Rivera, California. The allegation was pursued through civil litigation.

William Finn

• Accused
  

Finn’s name was quietly added to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Final Addendum published January 31, 2013. The disclosure identified him as accused of sexual abuse of a minor. No additional details regarding dates or locations were specified in the addendum.

Gerald B. Fessard

• Convicted
  

Fessard was accused of sexually abusing children in 1987 and was sent to the Servants of the Paraclete treatment center. He was later accused by a man who stated Fessard abused him as a child when he was eight or nine years old. The case resulted in criminal consequences reflected in his conviction status.

Thomas Q. Fitzpatrick

• Accused
  

Fitzpatrick was accused of sexually abusing a child in 1987 while assigned to Daniel Murphy Catholic High School for Boys. He was included in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles 2004 report listing priests accused of sexual abuse.

James J. Fitzpatrick

• Accused
  

Fitzpatrick was accused of sexual abuse occurring in Los Angeles between 1967 and 1968. He later worked in the Dallas–Fort Worth Diocese from 1969 to 1973. He died on August 6, 1973.

Patrick Flannery

• Accused
  

Flannery was publicly named as accused on the archdiocese’s updated list released December 6, 2018. Allegations reported in 2010 described incidents occurring between 1955 and 1960. Flannery died in 1973.

Vincent Stephen Flynn

• Accused
  

Flynn was publicly named as accused on the archdiocese’s updated list released December 6, 2018. Allegations reported in 2016 described an incident occurring in 1961. Flynn died in 1969.

George Foley

• Sued
  

Foley was accused of sexually abusing a girl between 1971 and 1974 while simultaneously maintaining a sexual relationship with her mother. The allegation was pursued through civil litigation.

Brian Cavanagh

• Accused
  

Cavanagh, a monsignor, was publicly named as accused on the Archdiocese of Los Angeles list released in December 2021. He was retired at the time of disclosure and held no ministerial faculties.

James Michael Ford

• Settled
  

Ford, a priest at Mater Dei High School and Holy Family Cathedral, was accused by a boy. The archdiocese determined there was no basis for the allegation. Ford was sent to Santa Barbara in 1971. The matter was resolved through settlement.

Dominic T. Gaioni

• Accused
  

Gaioni was accused of sexually abusing a minor in 1977. He left the Society of the Divine Word in 1998. His name was later included on the Diocese of San Bernardino’s list of accused clergy.

George Michael Gallagher

• Sued
  

Gallagher was accused of abusing two minors. One woman alleged abuse occurring between 1953 and 1962 in a civil lawsuit filed in 2003. He retired in 1979 and died in 1983. His personnel file was released in January 2013.

Miguel Gameros

• Accused
  

Gameros was publicly named as credibly accused on the Archdiocese of Los Angeles list released in December 2021. He served as an extern priest from Mexico and appears to have worked in the archdiocese between approximately 1982 and 1984. He was deceased at the time of disclosure.

Jesus Garay

• Sued
  

Garay, an extern priest from Argentina, was accused in a 2004 lawsuit of raping a 17-year-old girl in 1997. The lawsuit alleged the archdiocese did not inform authorities, provide medical care during the resulting pregnancy, or offer support after the child’s birth.

Carmelo Garcia

• Accused
  

Garcia, originally from Spain, was publicly named as accused by the Santa Barbara Province Franciscans on May 31, 2019. Allegations described sexual abuse of a minor occurring between 1988 and 1991, reported in 1998. He left the province in 1989 and later returned to Spain.

Cristobal Garcia

• Sued
  

Cristobal Garcia arrived in Los Angeles in 1983 and left in 1985. He was sued in 1988 for allegedly abusing two boys. He fled to the Philippines and was removed without ministerial privileges in 2012 based on the California allegations.

Ramon D. Garcia

• Sued
  

Garcia, a monsignor, was named in a civil lawsuit and included in the 2005 addendum to the Los Angeles Archdiocesan report. His accuser alleged abuse occurring between 1950 and 1952. Garcia died on November 29, 1972.

Richard Francis Garcia

• Sued
  

A complaint received in 2002 alleged that Garcia abused a male between 1961 and 1963. He left the priesthood in 1967. The allegation was addressed through civil legal proceedings.

Peter Edward Garcia

• Settled
  

Garcia, a monsignor, was on leave from 1984 to 2006 and was laicized on January 3, 2006. He died on July 29, 2009. He was accused of abusing at least 12 minors between 1961 and 1983 and was included in the 2004 report and the 2007 settlement involving 508 plaintiffs.

Michael Geilenfeld

• Charged
  

Geilenfeld entered the Missionaries of Charity in 1974 and founded St. Joseph’s Home for Boys in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1985. Allegations first became public in December 1995 when eight boys reported sexual and physical abuse. He was arrested in 2014 and jailed for approximately one year. He was arrested again in Denver, Colorado, on January 22, 2024, pleaded not guilty in federal court on February 16, 2024, and was ordered held in federal custody pending trial.

Sergio E. Garcia

• Accused
  

Garcia was publicly named as accused on the Archdiocese of Los Angeles list updated December 6, 2018. His ministerial faculties were removed in 2013.

Martin Gates

• Accused
  

Gates was publicly named as accused by the Santa Barbara Province Franciscans on May 31, 2019. He worked in Guaymas, Mexico, within the Diocese of Ciudad Obregón from 1971 to 1999.

Denis Ginty

• Settled
  

Ginty was ordained in Ireland and arrived in Los Angeles in 1928. He was accused of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in 1968. He died in 1985.

Bernard Brian Hanley

• Sued
  

A woman alleged Hanley sexually abused her when she was age 4. The allegation was later reviewed by church officials, who stated they did not find the claim credible. No criminal charges were filed. The allegation surfaced decades after the alleged abuse. Civil litigation referenced the claim, but no settlement or canonical penalty was publicly recorded.

Michael Joseph Haran

• Sued
  

Haran was accused by one victim of sexual abuse occurring between 1948 and 1957. He died in 1973. The allegation emerged many years later and was pursued through civil litigation. No criminal prosecution occurred, and no public disciplinary action was documented prior to his death.

Paschal Hardy

• Accused
  

Hardy was publicly named as accused on the Archdiocese of Los Angeles list released December 6, 2018. Allegations were reported in 2008 and concerned abuse alleged to have occurred between 1958 and 1961. Hardy died in 1989, decades before the disclosure.

Charles W. Harman

• Accused
  

Harman, listed as “Harmon” in the 1988 Official Catholic Directory, was named publicly as accused in December 2018. Allegations were reported in 2009 and involved incidents alleged to have occurred between 1967 and 1974. Harman died in 2006.

Richard A. Hartman

• Sued
  

Hartman was accused of sexual abuse occurring in 1958–1959. At least one civil lawsuit was filed. He is deceased. His name appears on both the Los Angeles and Orange County diocesan disclosure lists. His personnel file was released by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in January 2013.

Thomas E. Havel

• Settled
  

Havel was accused of sexually abusing a girl between 1968 and 1973, beginning when she was age 13 and receiving counseling from him. He was laicized in 1997. He had been employed at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View since 1980. The civil claim was settled.

Benjamin Hawkes

• Settled
  

Hawkes served as an administrative officer and treasurer for the archdiocese. He was accused of sexually abusing two boys. The claims were settled in 1995. Hawkes died in 1985.

Gerald Heather

• Sued
  

Heather was accused, along with Rev. Robert Van Handel, OFM, of abusing two choir boys at St. Anthony’s Seminary in Santa Barbara. He was named in civil litigation but does not appear in the Official Catholic Directory.

Richard Allen Henry

• Convicted
  

Henry was warned about in writing by Archbishop Mahony in 1988 due to concerns about his behavior around young boys. He was removed from active ministry in 1993. He was later convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison.

Alfred Hernandez

• Settled
  

Hernandez, a monsignor, was accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a 6-year-old boy in 1993 at a parish school. The civil case was settled in March 2017.

Stephen C. Hernandez

• Convicted
  

Hernandez had multiple victims prior to 1985. He was arrested in June 2004 and sentenced in January 2006 to three years’ probation for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Patrick J. Hill

• Accused
  

Hill was accused of abusing a minor between 1979 and 1981. The archdiocese investigated and deemed the allegation unsubstantiated. His name was still included in the archdiocese’s 2004 report on accused clergy.

John Higson

• Accused
  

Higson was quietly added to the Los Angeles archdiocese’s Final Addendum in 2008. Records note he was in a lay state at the time of disclosure.

Frank Hollenbach

• Accused
  

Hollenbach was a priest of the Diocese of Marquette, Wisconsin. He retired in 1984, moved to Mesa, Arizona, in 1989, and died on August 3, 2005. He was later listed among accused clergy.

William Hollinger

• Accused
  

Hollinger was accused of raping a girl between 1954 and 1958. His name was quietly added to the Los Angeles archdiocese’s Final Addendum.

Peter Alfonse Horne

• Accused
  

Horne, a religious brother, was accused of abusing children across multiple states, including California, Wisconsin, Washington DC, New York, Georgia, and Illinois. Allegations span multiple assignments.

Daniel Hurley

• Accused
  

Hurley, a monsignor ordained in 1921, was named publicly as accused in 2013. He died in 1982.

Michael A. Hunt

• Sued
  

Hunt was accused of abusing a girl between 1957 and 1958 while assigned to Epiphany Parish in El Monte, where she attended the parish school. He died in 1984. A civil lawsuit was filed.

John J. Hurley

• Sued
  

Hurley was ordained in Ireland for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He was accused of abuse in 1949 while assigned to Our Lady of the Valley in Canoga Park. He was named in a civil suit filed in December 2003. He died in 1992.

Richard Hurley

• Sued
  

Hurley was named in the Archdiocesan Report Addendum with one accuser alleging abuse between 1993 and 1994. A civil suit was filed. As of December 2021, he remained listed as active in ministry.

Jose Medrano Ilagan

• Accused
  

Ilagan’s name was quietly added to the Los Angeles archdiocese’s Final Addendum posted January 31, 2013.

Joseph James

• Accused
  

James was accused of abusing one person in 1958, per the Archdiocese of Los Angeles report released in 2004.

Melvin P. James

• Accused
  

James was publicly named as accused on the archdiocese’s list released December 6, 2018. Allegations were reported in 2015 and involved abuse alleged to have occurred in the 1990s.

Luis Jaramillo

• Settled
  

Jaramillo was accused of abusing two boys in Los Angeles and an altar boy in Hermiston, Oregon, between 1988 and 1989. He was returned to Mexico after failing treatment and later worked in Argentina, the Philippines, and Mexico. The claims were settled.

Tilak A. Jayawardene

• Indicted
  

Jayawardene was indicted for alleged abuse in 1990. He fled to Sri Lanka before arrest and has remained outside U.S. jurisdiction.

Emmanuel Jimenez-Pelayo

• Accused
  

Jimenez-Pelayo was accused of abusing one person in 1975, per the 2004 archdiocesan report.

David E. Johnson

• Sued
  

Johnson was accused of abusing two minors between 1978 and 1979 at St. Anthony Seminary and another location. He was laicized in 2001 and later appeared on disclosure lists in Los Angeles, Seattle, and the Santa Barbara Franciscan Province.

Anthony Juarez

• Accused
  

Juarez was accused of abusing one person in 1958, per the 2004 archdiocesan report.

Robert Jesus Juarez

• Accused
  

Juarez was publicly named as accused in December 2018. Reports were made in 1992 and 2009 alleging abuse in 1980–1981. A lifetime of prayer and penance was imposed in 2017.

Rene Juarez

• Sued
  

Juarez was publicly named by the Santa Barbara Province Franciscans in November 2023. He is the subject of one or more pending lawsuits. He is not in ministry.

Stephen Kain

• Sued
  

Kain was named in a 2004 civil suit alleging assault of at least one student at St. Anthony Seminary. He was removed from ministry in 1993 and later lived under restrictions.

Philip Kavanaugh

• Accused
  

Kavanaugh was accused in 2002 of abuse alleged to have occurred around 1973–1974 while assigned to Cathedral Chapel. He was placed on leave and investigated by police. His name appeared in the 2004 archdiocesan report.

Kumara S. Kambhampati

• Accused
  

Kambhampati professed vows in 2007 and was assigned to Chaminade College Preparatory in West Hills in 2017. He was removed in December 2018 after credible information showed inappropriate sexual communication with a student via internet or social media. He was removed from the Marianists’ West Hills community and withdrew from the Marianists in 2021.

Christopher Kearney

• Sued
  

Kearney was removed as head of San Lorenzo Seminary in Santa Ynez in 2002 following accusations of abusing boys between 1971 and 1984. Archdiocesan records later identified 11 accusers. He held inactive status. In December 2019, a lawsuit was filed under the California Child Victims Act alleging abuse of a boy ages 15–17 between 1984 and 1986 while the student attended St. Francis High School, where Kearney taught from 1970 to 1995. He was removed from the school in 1995. Attorneys stated five additional suits were forthcoming, alleging abuse under the guise of wrestling.

John Keeney

• Accused
  

Keeney was accused of abusing one person between 1974 and 1976, per the Archdiocese of Los Angeles report released in 2004.

Matthew H. Kelly

• Settled
  

Complaints about Kelly’s conduct were raised by parishioners as early as 1970. He was later named in civil lawsuits filed in 2003 and 2004 alleging sexual misconduct. The claims were resolved through settlement. No criminal charges were publicly recorded, and no further ministry assignments were documented after the lawsuits.

Patrick Kelly

• Convicted
  

Patrick Kelly was a visiting priest from Ireland who worked in Zambia in the 1950s and later studied in Chicago by 1986. He served in New York and California before returning to Ireland in 1991. He pleaded no contest to criminal charges of sexual abuse in Ireland, resulting in a conviction.

John F. Killeen

• Accused
  

Killeen was publicly named as accused on the Archdiocese of Los Angeles list released December 6, 2018. A report received in 2011 alleged abuse occurring in 1960. He died in 1991, years before the public disclosure.

John M. Kenney

• Sued
  

Kenney was accused of sexual abuse occurring between 1976 and 1977. He appeared on disclosure lists for both Los Angeles and Orange dioceses. Civil lawsuits were filed in Los Angeles and the Diocese of Baker, Oregon, where additional abuse was alleged. He died on July 24, 1977.

Thomas F. King

• Sued
  

King was accused in 2004 of sodomizing an 11-year-old boy between 1967 and 1968 while serving as associate pastor at St. Louise de Marillac Parish in Covina, California. The diocese stated the allegation was unfounded, and he remained in active ministry. Civil litigation followed.

Henry R. Kingman

• Sued
  

Kingman was publicly named by the Franciscan Santa Barbara Province in November 2023. He left the Province in 1973 and was formally dismissed from the Order in 2009. One or more civil lawsuits are pending, and the credibility of the allegations has not been formally determined.

Bruce J. Klikunas

• Sued
  

Klikunas was accused by one person of sexual abuse occurring between 1976 and 1977. His name appeared in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles 2004 report on accused clergy. At least one civil lawsuit was filed alleging abuse.

Joseph Killeen

• Sued
  

Killeen took final religious vows in 1929 and worked as a nurse in Idaho, Arizona, and Washington. He was accused of molesting children, but his religious order reported that it found no substantiation for the claims. Civil litigation later named him.

Frank Kohlbeck

• Sued
  

Kohlbeck, a seminarian, was accused of abusing four minors between 1981 and 1983. He was named in at least one civil lawsuit and included in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles 2004 report on accused clergy.

John Kohnke

• Arrested
  

Kohnke was arrested in California in 1974 for oral copulation of a minor and lewd behavior in public restrooms. Despite the arrests, he continued to work in parishes across Wisconsin, Montana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and California in subsequent years.

Gustave R. Krumm

• Settled
  

Krumm was accused of sexually abusing a boy in 1980 at a minor seminary in Los Angeles. He was dismissed in 1981, later ordained, and transferred to Portland, Oregon. He was convicted in 2002, removed from ministry in Sacramento, laicized, and later listed by the Santa Barbara Province Franciscans in 2019.

Sylvio Lacar

• Sued
  

Lacar, an extern priest from the Philippines, was accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl in the early 1980s. A civil lawsuit was filed in 1984 alleging abuse during his assignment in Los Angeles.

Michael Lalor

• Accused
  

Lalor, originally from Ireland, was the founding pastor of St. Cyril’s Parish in Encino beginning in 1949 and remained there until his death on April 9, 1967. He was publicly named as accused in December 2018, with allegations reported in 2012 concerning abuse between 1959 and 1962.

Timothy R. Lane

• Accused
  

Lane was accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman. No criminal charges were filed due to insufficient evidence. The allegation was recorded in archdiocesan disclosures.

David LaPierre

• Sued
  

LaPierre was accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1983 and 1984 while assigned to St. Francis High School in La Cañada Flintridge, California. He was named in civil litigation alleging abuse during that period.

Fergus Lawless

• Sued
  

Lawless, originally from Ireland, arrived in California in 1934 and later served as Capuchin Custos Provincial beginning in 1962. He was accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1952 and 1953. Civil litigation later named him.

Juan R. Leon

• Sued
  

Leon was publicly named by the Franciscan Santa Barbara Province in November 2023. One or more civil lawsuits are pending. He died on January 11, 1998.

Arthur F. Liebrenz

• Sued
  

Liebrenz was publicly named by the Franciscan Santa Barbara Province in November 2023. He is the subject of one or more pending civil lawsuits. The credibility of the allegations has not yet been formally determined.

Modesto Leon

• Settled
  

Leon was accused of sexually abusing a boy between ages 14 and 16 from 1996 to 1999. A civil lawsuit was filed in 2008. The case was settled sometime between 2006 and 2010.

Charles Loofborough

• Sued
  

Loofborough was accused of sexual abuse occurring between 1978 and 1981. He was named in a 2003 civil lawsuit by one accuser. Archdiocesan records released in December 2021 noted he was in the lay state.

Jerold W. Lindner

• Settled
  

A civil lawsuit alleging Lindner abused two brothers in 1975 was settled in 1998 for $625,000. He was later named in a 2003 lawsuit involving two accusers alleging abuse between 1973 and 1983.

Theodore Llanos

• Settled
  

Llanos turned himself in to police after an arrest warrant was issued in November 1995. He faced 38 counts of molesting five boys dating back to 1990 and was sued by six individuals in 1996. He died by suicide in December 1996 at age 50.

Joseph Lopez

• Accused
  

Lopez was accused of sexually abusing a girl between 1962 and 1966. He left the priesthood in 1970.

Fernando Lopez

• Convicted
  

Lopez was arrested in 2004 for sexual abuse of a minor and convicted in 2005. His conviction was later overturned by an appellate court, and the California Supreme Court declined to review the case.

Richard A. Loomis

• Sued
  

Loomis, a monsignor, was sued in 2003 and placed on leave in 2004. He was later cleared of sexual misconduct allegations. He publicly disclosed information regarding Cardinal Mahony’s handling of abuse cases involving Michael Baker.

Larry Lorenzoni

• Sued
  

Lorenzoni was born May 12, 1923, joined the Salesians in 1939, and taught at Salesian high schools in Los Angeles from 1957 to 1967. He later worked at Southern Illinois University and the Vatican Press Office. He died in 2017. Civil litigation later named him.

Lawrence Joseph Lovell

• Convicted
  

Lovell was convicted in 2004 for sexually abusing multiple boys. He was laicized in 1992, married in 1995, and faced civil suits filed in 1996 and December 2003. A lawsuit settled in 2020 for $1.9 million. He was released from prison in May 2021 and formally laicized again in December 2021.

Juan Macias

• Sued
  

Macias was sued in 1988 and accused, along with Rev. Cristobal Garcia, O.P., of providing drugs to an altar boy and sexually abusing him between 1983 and 1986.

Eugene MacSweeney

• Sued
  

MacSweeney died on March 26, 1975. He was accused of sexually abusing a minor around 1959, according to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles report released in 2004. A civil lawsuit naming him was filed in December 2003, decades after the alleged abuse.

Eugene A. Maio

• Sued
  

Maio was accused of sexually abusing a minor at Marymount High School in Los Angeles while serving as a Loyola University faculty member between 1963 and 1967. He left the Jesuits in 1970 and formally left the priesthood in 1971. Civil litigation later alleged abuse during his Los Angeles assignment.

Denis Lyons

• Settled
  

Lyons was accused of sexual abuse in 1979 and removed from ministry in 2002. He was charged in 2003, but charges were dropped the same year following a California Supreme Court ruling on the statute of limitations. He faced multiple civil lawsuits, was sentenced to one year in jail, five years’ probation, and was required to register as a sex offender.

Roger Michael Mahony

• Exonerated by diocese
  

Mahony was accused twice of sexual abuse, but both allegations were reviewed and not substantiated by the archdiocese. In 2013, his successor removed him from all administrative and public duties due to governance failures related to abuse cases. He retained his clerical status and remained a bishop in good standing.

Eugene A. Malo

• Accused
  

Malo was publicly named as accused by the Jesuits Central and Southern Province on December 7, 2018. He left the priesthood in 1971. Allegations of abuse were reported decades after his departure from ministry.

Sylvester E. Mancuso

• Accused
  

Mancuso, a Franciscan friar, was publicly named as accused by the Santa Barbara Province Franciscans and also appeared on disclosure lists from the dioceses of Las Cruces and Gallup. Allegations span multiple jurisdictions and assignments.

Michael Marin

• Sued
  

Marin, a Franciscan friar, was publicly named as accused by the Franciscan Santa Barbara Province in November 2023. He is the subject of one or more civil lawsuits alleging sexual abuse. No public resolution has been recorded.

Thomas Reon Paul Marshall Jr.

• Indicted
  

Marshall was transferred to Canada from Chicago in 1966. In 2003, he was charged with 20 counts of lewd acts on a child under age 14 for alleged abuse occurring in Los Angeles between 1959 and 1963. He died in 2012 and appears on multiple abuse disclosure lists.

James Aloysius Martin

• Accused
  

Martin was accused of sexually abusing one person between 1934 and 1938, per the Archdiocese of Los Angeles 2004 report. He retired in 1954 and is deceased.

Ernest Martinez

• Sued
  

Martinez was accused of sexually abusing a minor and was later transferred to Mexico. His last known assignment placed him at Salesian provincial headquarters in San Francisco. Civil litigation alleged abuse during his ministry.

Rodolfo Martinez-Guevara

• Charged
  

Martinez-Guevara was arrested in September 2023 and charged with possession of more than 600 images and videos depicting child sexual abuse. Following his arrest, he resided in Long Beach, California.

Richard M. Martini

• Settled
  

Martini was accused of sexually abusing a boy between 1990 and 1991 at Our Lady Queen of Angels Seminary. A civil lawsuit was settled in 2006. Despite the settlement, he remained listed as an active parish priest in subsequent archdiocesan records.

Ruben D. Martinez

• Settled
  

Martinez was accused of sexually abusing seven minors between 1970 and 1981. He underwent treatment in the early 1990s at Via Coeli in Jemez Springs, New Mexico, and later worked in the Diocese of Oakland in 2003. Civil claims were resolved through settlement.

Francisco Mateos

• Sued
  

Mateos was accused of sexually abusing a minor. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles later stated it cleared him of the allegation following its internal review. Civil litigation named him despite the archdiocesan determination.

Leonardo G. Mateo

• Settled
  

A 2003 lawsuit alleged Mateo abused a minor in Los Angeles in 1959. A separate civil lawsuit filed in 2014 alleged abuse in 1980 and was settled in August 2018 for $1.4 million. A 2023 Attorney General’s report identified at least ten reported survivors linked to Mateo.

Charles Patrick Mayer

• Charged
  

Mayer was arrested in August 2018 after sending nude photographs of himself online to an undercover police officer. He pleaded not guilty. He had been removed from active ministry earlier, in September 2000.

Joseph McAsey

• Accused
  

McAsey was named as accused by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2008 and was later included on the Jesuits West Province list of accused clergy in 2018. Allegations concerned abuse occurring during his ministry.

Gabriel McCarthy

• Sued
  

McCarthy was publicly named as accused by the Franciscan Santa Barbara Province in 2023. One or more civil lawsuits are pending. He died on November 29, 1981.

Vincent McCabe

• Sued
  

McCabe, a monsignor, was publicly named as accused on the Archdiocese of Los Angeles list updated December 6, 2018. He died on February 15, 2015. Civil litigation named him prior to his death.

Kevin J. McCarthy

• Accused
  

McCarthy was ordained for the Diocese of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, and worked in Fresno, Inglewood, Little Rock, and Los Angeles. He died in 1992. He was later publicly named as accused by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Angus R. McDonald

• Accused
  

McDonald was the first priest ordained for the Diocese of Fairbanks. He served in Barrow, Alaska, from 1966 to 1971 and retired in 1986. He was accused of sexually abusing minors in 1956 and of sexual misconduct involving a vulnerable adult in 1976.

Daniel McDonough

• Settled
  

McDonough was among ten brothers and two laymen accused by more than 30 men of sexual abuse at three Chicago-area schools. Civil claims were resolved through settlement.

Forrest McDonald

• Sued
  

McDonald was named in a 2008 civil lawsuit against the Santa Barbara Province Franciscans. The Province later stated it had received no allegation involving a minor directly linked to him.

Thomas McElhatton

• Settled
  

McElhatton was accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1943 and 1945. He died on October 10, 1965. One civil settlement was recorded in connection with the allegation. An additional allegation of abuse was formally established in April 2021, expanding the scope of reported misconduct decades after his death.

Finian McGinn

• Sued
  

McGinn was publicly named as accused by the Franciscan Santa Barbara Province in November 2023. He was the subject of one or more pending civil lawsuits at the time of disclosure. The credibility of the allegations had not yet been formally determined. He died on July 25, 2019.

Philip Joseph McGrath

• Accused
  

McGrath was publicly named as accused by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in December 2021. An allegation was reported to the archdiocese in 2017, alleging sexual abuse occurring around 1970. McGrath died in 2008, prior to the public disclosure.

Martin McKeon

• Settled
  

McKeon was accused of sexually abusing two children during the 1960s. The claims were resolved through a $28 million settlement paid by the Franciscan Santa Barbara Province. He was later included on the Diocese of Oakland’s disclosure list in 2019.

James J. McGloin

• Sued
  

McGloin was accused of sexual abuse of a minor in 1963. He was dispensed from perpetual vows in 1970, married, raised a family, and continued working as an educator. He died in 2013. His personnel files did not specifically identify child sexual abuse, though civil litigation named him.

William A. McLean

• Accused
  

McLean was publicly named as accused by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in December 2021. Archdiocesan records noted that he was retired and had no faculties to minister at the time of disclosure.

Seán John McGrath

• Accused
  

McGrath was ordained for the Columban Fathers and served in the Philippines and London, England. He was later assigned to ministry in Belize and the United States. He was accused of sexual abuse during his clerical service and later listed among accused clergy.

Patrick J. McHugh

• Settled
  

One individual alleged McHugh sexually abused them between 1972 and 1974. Seven individuals filed lawsuits in 2003. In 2006, six of those claims were settled with the Diocese of Monterey for $1.5 million, which included lifetime counseling provisions.

Patrick H. McNamara

• Sued
  

McNamara was dismissed from the Jesuits in 1968. He was later named in a civil lawsuit alleging sexual abuse. No criminal prosecution was recorded.

Jose Mejia Gonzales

• Accused
  

Gonzales was publicly named as accused on the Archdiocese of Los Angeles list released December 6, 2018. A report received in 2015 alleged abuse occurring between 1983 and 1985. He was listed as having no ministerial faculties, with an investigation pending as of 2015.

Jose J. Mendez

• Sued
  

Mendez left the novitiate in Spain and later completed religious formation in New Jersey, Kansas, and New York. He made solemn profession in 1982 and was dismissed from his religious order in 1996. Civil litigation later named him in connection with abuse allegations.

William P. Messenger

• Accused
  

Messenger was accused of sexually abusing a minor in 1980. He served as a chaplain at the University of Southern California and was placed on leave in May 2005. Archdiocesan records released in December 2021 show that he was laicized.

Louis L. Meyer

• Sued
  

Meyer was accused in a 2003 civil lawsuit of sexually abusing a girl in 1968. He withdrew from his religious order in 1974. Civil litigation proceeded decades after the alleged abuse.

Titian Athos Miani

• Settled
  

Miani was arrested in 2003 and charged with sexually abusing two girls. Criminal charges were dismissed later that year following a California Supreme Court ruling on the statute of limitations. At least one civil lawsuit was filed, and claims were resolved through settlement.

George Michael Miller

• Convicted
  

Miller was removed from active ministry in 1997 following allegations of abuse of a boy in the 1970s and 1980s. He was laicized in 2005. In 2008, he pleaded guilty to abusing three additional boys and was sentenced in 2009 to three years in prison.

Vincent L. Molthen

• Accused
  

Molthen was accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1961 and 1962, according to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles report released in 2004. He died on May 22, 1995.

John Dennis Mitchell

• Accused
  

Mitchell was accused by one person of sexual abuse occurring in 1968. He died in 1996. He was later listed on disclosure lists maintained by the Paulist Fathers and the Diocese of Charleston.

Alfred J. Monte

• Sued
  

Monte was accused of sexually abusing a child in 1947, per the 2004 archdiocesan report. He died in 1996. At least one civil lawsuit named him.

Michael Andre Moody

• Sued
  

Moody was accused of sexually abusing two individuals in 1980. He was named in a civil lawsuit filed in December 2003. Archdiocesan records released in December 2021 indicate that he later left his religious order.

Raymond D. Morales

• Accused
  

Morales was publicly named as accused on the archdiocese’s list released December 6, 2018. Reports received in 2005 and 2018 alleged abuse occurring in 1968. His ministerial faculties were removed in 2018.

Kolbe Moreno

• Accused
  

Moreno’s name was quietly added to the Los Angeles archdiocese’s Final Addendum posted January 31, 2013, along with 23 other accused clergy.

Ralph Murguia

• Sued
  

Murguia was accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1957 and 1960, per the 2005 addendum to the archdiocesan report. He was named in a civil lawsuit alleging abuse during that period.

Francis J. Murphy

• Accused
  

Murphy was publicly named by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles as accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1964 and 1965. He died in 1970.

Joseph L. Murphy

• Accused
  

Murphy was accused of sexually abusing a minor at St. Ferdinand’s Parish in San Fernando between 1957 and 1960. He died in March 1975.

Daniel J. Murray

• Sued
  

Murray was sued in 2003 and settled for $500,000. He was placed on leave following allegations of sexual misconduct in 1991. The diocese stated it could not substantiate the claim. He was later laicized.

Michael Stephen Nocita

• Settled
  

Nocita was accused of sexually abusing three minors between 1975 and 1985. He was removed from ministry in 1991, had his faculties revoked in 2000, and was laicized in 2006. His claims were included in a $13 million settlement. His personnel file was released in January 2013.

Thomas Ryan

• Accused
  

Ryan was publicly named as accused on the Archdiocese of Los Angeles list released December 6, 2018. A report to the archdiocese alleged sexual abuse occurring in 1957. Ryan died in 1988, decades before the allegation was publicly disclosed.

George Neville Rucker

• Settled
  

Rucker was known to have sexually abused young girls beginning shortly after his ordination. Bishop Timothy Manning was aware of the misconduct by the early 1960s. Rucker was laicized in 2008 as part of a $60 million settlement involving 22 priests resolved by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Armando Salazar

• Accused
  

Salazar was publicly named as accused on the archdiocese’s list updated December 6, 2018. A report received in 2016 alleged abuse occurring around 1967. Salazar died in 1972.

Jose G. Sanchez

• Accused
  

Sanchez’s name was quietly added to the Los Angeles archdiocese’s Final Addendum posted January 31, 2013. Archdiocesan records released in December 2021 state that Sanchez had been laicized and excommunicated.

Juan Francisco Sanchez

• Accused
  

Sanchez was accused of sexual abuse of a minor in 1992, per the 2004 archdiocesan report. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles list released in December 2021 notes that he is deceased.

Alexander Salazar

• Accused
  

Auxiliary Bishop Salazar was investigated by law enforcement in 2002 for alleged sexual misconduct involving a minor. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles stated it did not learn of the allegation until 2005.

Manuel Ontiveros Sanchez

• Settled
  

Monsignor Sanchez was accused of sexual abuse of a minor. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles later stated that the evidence did not support the allegation. A civil claim was resolved through settlement.

John Anthony Salazar-Jimenez

• Convicted
  

Salazar-Jimenez was sued in 1986 and convicted in 1987 of molesting two boys. He was banned for life from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He moved to the Diocese of Amarillo in 1991, was charged with assault of an 18-year-old in Dallas, convicted in 2005, laicized in 2005, and released in 2013 for time served.

Lawrence Sandstrom

• Settled
  

Sandstrom left his religious order in 1997. He was accused of sexually abusing five boys between 1955 and 1969 at Maryvale and of abuse at Rancho San Antonio in Chatsworth during the 1960s. Civil claims were resolved through settlement.

John C. Santillan Hernandez

• Sued
  

Santillan Hernandez was accused of sexually abusing a boy between the ages of 12 and 17 during the 1970s. He died in 2004. A civil lawsuit was filed alleging abuse.

Jose L. Sanchez

• Reinstated
  

Sanchez was named as accused by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2014. Following review, the archdiocese determined the allegation was not credible in 2015, and he was reinstated.

Agnes Santomassimo

• Sued
  

Santomassimo worked in hospitals in Chicago, New York, and Montreal between 1950 and 1969. She served as provincial office secretary-treasurer for her religious order from 1969 to 2001. Civil litigation later named her.

Richard Satterthwaite

• Sued
  

Satterthwaite was accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1961 and 1962 while assigned to Cantwell High School in Montebello. He was named in one civil lawsuit, per the 2005 archdiocesan report addendum.

Arulappan Savarianandam

• Accused
  

Savarianandam was removed from ministry in 2002 following an allegation of sexual abuse of a girl. He subsequently left the United States and returned to India.

Maurice Scheier

• Accused
  

Scheier was accused of sexually abusing one person in 1948, according to the 2004 archdiocesan report. He died in 1991. The Santa Barbara Province Franciscans reported having no additional information on him.

Emmett Gilroy Schaller

• Sued
  

Schaller was accused of sexual abuse occurring between 1979 and 1980. He admitted aspects of his sexual behavior during treatment. He was named in a civil lawsuit and may have left the priesthood.

George M. Scott

• Settled
  

Scott, a monsignor, was accused of sexually abusing a boy and a girl, both approximately ages 7 or 8, between 1947 and 1958. The civil claims were resolved through settlement.

Louis Selmo

• Accused
  

Selmo was ordained for the Congregation of St. Joseph. He was publicly named as accused on the archdiocese’s list released December 6, 2018. A report received in 2014 alleged abuse occurring around 1982. Selmo died in 2005.

Joe Sharkey

• Sued
  

Sharkey was accused of sexual abuse of a minor between 1967 and 1968, per the 2004 archdiocesan report. He was named in a civil lawsuit and appears on the Diocese of Orange list of accused clergy.

Avdon Serratos

• Convicted
  

Serratos, a priest from Mexico, sexually abused a 15-year-old girl during confession. He was convicted, deported to Mexico, and later served at the Lord of Mercy Temple in Villa de Álvarez, Colima.

Joseph F. Sharpe

• Sued
  

Sharpe was sued in 2003 for alleged sexual abuse of a high school boy. He died in 1999.

Charles Shelton

• Accused
  

Shelton’s name was quietly added to the Los Angeles archdiocese’s Final Addendum posted January 31, 2013, along with 23 other accused clergy.

John R. Shepherd

• Accused
  

Shepherd was publicly named as accused on the archdiocese’s list released December 6, 2018, and on the Jesuits West Province list dated December 7, 2018. He served at Jesuit high schools in California and Arizona until 1958 and died on October 23, 1991.

Francis R. Simon

• Accused
  

Simon was accused of sexual abuse by a man in 2002. The allegation was later recorded in archdiocesan disclosures.

Edward E. Shimmaly

• Sued
  

Shimmaly was accused of sexually abusing a minor while assigned to Immaculate Conception Parish in Monrovia. He also served as a military chaplain. He retired, remained on sick leave as of 1984, and died on May 2, 1999.

Michael Sintef

• Accused
  

Sintef was included on the archdiocese’s Final Addendum dated January 31, 2013. He was involved sexually with a teenage girl when he was age 30 and she was 17. He left the priesthood and later practiced hypnotherapy.

Fidencio Simon Silva-Flores

• Sued
  

Silva-Flores, a priest from Mexico, was assigned to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 1978. He was accused of abusing 28 boys. Criminal charges were dropped, multiple civil suits were filed, and his personnel file was released. He was removed from St. Philip Neri Parish in Lynwood in November 1998 and was reported in May 2019 to be working in Mexico.

Robert William Spader

• Accused
  

Spader was publicly named as accused on the archdiocese’s list released December 6, 2018. Reports received in 2007 and 2008 alleged abuse occurring between 1972 and 1973. He died on August 3, 1982.

Stephen Emmett Speciale

• Settled
  

Speciale was accused of sexual abuse occurring between 1985 and 1986. He settled a civil claim in 1993 for $60,000, was dismissed from his religious order in 1989, and was later named in the 2004 archdiocesan report.

Matthew Michael Sprouffske

• Arrested
  

In 1986, Sprouffske was accused of sexually abusing a female relative under age 14. In 2006, a settlement was reached involving the religious order, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and seven individuals alleging abuse by five priests.

William Stadtfeld

• Settled
  

Stadtfeld was accused of sexually abusing two sisters between 1958 and 1966. Both claims were resolved as part of the $660 million Archdiocese of Los Angeles settlement finalized in July 2007.

Louis G. Stallkamp

• Sued
  

Stallkamp was accused of sexually abusing two minors between 1974 and 1979. He died in 1994. He was named in the 2004 archdiocesan report and in a civil lawsuit filed in December 2003. He also worked in the Diocese of Orange.

Raymond Stiechen

• Accused
  

Stiechen’s name was quietly added to the Los Angeles archdiocese’s Final Addendum posted January 31, 2013. Archdiocesan records released in December 2018 note that he had been laicized.

Stanislaus Su

• Accused
  

Su was a member of the Congregation of St. John the Baptist. His name was quietly added to the Los Angeles archdiocese’s Final Addendum published January 31, 2013, along with 23 other clergy. No public dates of alleged abuse were disclosed in the addendum.

Joseph Tacderas

• Accused
  

Tacderas was accused of sexually abusing a minor in 1983. The allegation was recorded in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles 2004 report on accused clergy.

Santiago L. Tamayo

• Settled
  

Tamayo was accused of sexually abusing a minor and separately alleged to have abused a boy. He fled to the Philippines after allegations surfaced. Records report his death as occurring in either 1996 or 1999. Civil claims were resolved by settlement.

Carl Maurice Sutphin

• Arrested
  

Sutphin was accused of sexually abusing one boy, and possibly two, between 1964 and 1970. He retired and had faculties removed in February 2002. He was arrested in 2003, but charges were dismissed in July 2003 following a California Supreme Court ruling. He was laicized on December 16, 2005.

Thomas J. Sullivan

• Sued
  

Sullivan was sued in 2003 by a man alleging sexual abuse between 1956 and 1958. Sullivan served in parishes in San Francisco, Santa Clara, Azusa, and Los Angeles, and was assigned to the University of Hawaii Newman Center from 1969 to 1978.

Michael Terra

• Sued
  

Terra was accused in 2002 of sexual misconduct with a 16-year-old girl occurring in 1979–1980. He left ministry and was placed on inactive leave in 1991. He was named in the 2004 archdiocesan report, sued civilly, and laicized, as reflected on the archdiocese’s December 2021 list.

Raymond Jose Tepe

• Accused
  

Tepe was accused of sexually abusing two minors between 1958 and 1968, per the archdiocesan report. He died in 1969.

Lukas Bao Teluma

• Accused
  

Teluma, also known as Lukas Bao Telema, was accused of sexually abusing a minor in 1995. He remained an active priest as of 2004 and died in 2011.

Tom Thing

• Settled
  

Thing was named in a 1995 lawsuit alleging sexual abuse of at least one student at Saint Anthony Seminary. The case was settled in March 2011. He was officially released from his religious order in 2004.

Vance Zebulon Thorne

• Sued
  

Thorne was accused of sexually abusing one person in the early 1970s. He also served in the dioceses of Austin, Texas; Jackson, Mississippi; and Trenton, New Jersey. At least three civil suits and two criminal indictments were filed against him in Mississippi between 1986 and 1987.

Carl D. Tresler

• Accused
  

Tresler was removed from ministry in 1998 after an allegation of sexual abuse of a boy. He was reportedly active in Peru as of March 2005 and was named in the 2004 Los Angeles archdiocesan report.

Jerome Turba

• Accused
  

Turba was publicly named as accused on the archdiocese’s list updated December 6, 2018. A report received in 2011 alleged abuse occurring during the 1960s and 1970s. He went on inactive leave in 1973.

Valentine Tugade

• Settled
  

Tugade, an extern priest from the Philippines, was accused of sexually abusing a girl between 1978 and 1984. He returned to the Philippines following the allegation and was included in the 2004 archdiocesan report. Civil claims were settled.

Jose I. Ugarte

• Accused
  

Allegations against Ugarte were first disclosed in personnel files released by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He was ordered to return to Spain and prohibited from celebrating Mass publicly for seven years.

Giles Valcovich

• Sued
  

Valcovich was publicly named as accused by the Franciscans of the Santa Barbara Province on a list released in November 2023. He was subject to one or more pending lawsuits at that time. He died on June 22, 1997.

Christian Van Liefde

• Sued
  

Van Liefde was accused of inappropriate sexual conduct toward a minor during 1973–1974. A civil lawsuit was filed alleging abuse.

Leo Vincent Van ter Toolen

• Settled
  

Van ter Toolen was accused of sexual abuse occurring between 1962 and 1964. He was named in the archdiocesan report and in a civil lawsuit that was resolved by settlement.

John Verhart

• Sued
  

Verhart was accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1957 and 1958, per the archdiocesan report. He was named in at least one civil lawsuit.

Pedro Vasquez

• Sued
  

Vasquez was named as one of several religious assigned to Santa Barbara accused in a civil suit filed in 2008. The Santa Barbara Province Franciscans stated they received no allegation involving a minor related to Vasquez.

Henry Xavier Vetter

• Sued
  

Vetter served at Mater Dolorosa Monastery in Sierra Madre, California, from 1953 to 1973 and founded a nonprofit in 1963 supporting orphanages and schools in Baja California. He was suspected of child sexual abuse in Detroit during the 1940s and again in the 1960s and early 1970s. Additional allegations involved abuse occurring between 1953 and 1973.

Luis Villoria

• Accused
  

Villoria’s name was quietly added to the Los Angeles archdiocese’s Final Addendum published January 31, 2013, along with 23 other accused clergy.

Gillermo Nemoria Villa Gomez

• Sued
  

In 1994, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles received reports concerning Villa Gomez’s involvement with children. In 2002, a man alleged abuse as a boy by Villa. In 2008, the Archbishop of Guadalajara declined to cooperate in the investigation of an allegation. Civil litigation followed.

Ernesto Corral Villaroya

• Sued
  

Villaroya was an extern priest from the Philippines working in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles without authorization. He was transferred to the Diocese of Dallas in 1996, where he was permitted to continue ministry. Civil litigation later named him.

William S. Vita

• Sued
  

Vita was accused of sexually abusing a minor between 1947 and 1953, per the archdiocesan report addendum. He was named in a civil lawsuit and died in 1964.

Rudolph T. Vorisek

• Accused
  

Vorisek was publicly named as accused on the Los Angeles archdiocese list released December 6, 2018, the Baltimore archdiocese list dated April 24, 2019, and the Paulists’ list dated March 8, 2019.

John H. Wadeson

• Reinstated
  

Wadeson was accused of sexually abusing two individuals between 1973 and 1977, per the 2004 archdiocesan report. He was banned from ministry in Los Angeles but later found serving as a priest in Guam beginning around 2000. He denied all allegations and later left Guam, possibly relocating to San Francisco.

James Joseph Walsh

• Sued
  

Walsh was named in a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse occurring between 1967 and 1968. He died in 1984 and was listed in the archdiocesan report under Errata Notice No. 1.

A. Thomas Warren

• Accused
  

Warren was accused of sexually abusing five minors in 1991. He died in 2001.

Wilfred Weitz

• Sued
  

Weitz was accused of sexually abusing one person between 1959 and 1961, per the 2004 archdiocesan report. He died in 1991 and was named in at least one civil lawsuit.

Francis J. Weber

• Accused
  

Weber was accused of sexually abusing two minors in 1959, according to the 2004 archdiocesan report. He died in 1989.

Michael Edwin Wempe

• Convicted
  

Wempe was accused of sexually abusing 13 children between 1972 and 1995. He was sued multiple times, re-arrested in 2003, and convicted on one criminal count in 2006. He was laicized in 2006. Civil claims included an allegation of abuse of a boy in 1974–1975, which was resolved by settlement.

Gerald Wertz

• Sued
  

In 1993–1994, a 15-year-old boy accused Wertz of sexual abuse at St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, California. No disciplinary action was taken by church authorities at the time. Records show that Wertz was living at the Salesian Provincial Residence in San Francisco in 2011.

Philip Mark Wolfe

• Convicted
  

Wolfe was convicted in 1989 for sexually abusing a boy. Archdiocesan records list three accusers with incidents occurring between 1975 and 1989. A civil lawsuit was settled in 1991, and he was later named in two additional civil suits filed in fall 2009. Wolfe died by suicide in 1994.

John W. Wishard

• Convicted
  

Wishard pleaded no contest in 1980 to oral copulation of a child and was sentenced to five years of probation. He was dismissed from ministry in 2002 and reportedly laicized in August 2002.

William J. Wood

• Accused
  

Wood’s name was quietly added to the Los Angeles archdiocese’s Final Addendum published January 31, 2013. He was also included on the Jesuits West Province list of accused clergy released December 7, 2018.

George Patrick Ziemann

• Sued
  

Ziemann resigned as Bishop of the Diocese of Santa Rosa in 1999 after a priest sued him over a sexual relationship. After his resignation, he lived in Tucson, Arizona, without faculties. He died in October 2009.

Archdiocese of San Francisco CA

Peter Gomez Armstrong

• Accused
  

Armstrong, a monsignor, held numerous chancery positions within the Archdiocese of San Francisco, including serving as chaplain to the San Francisco 49ers. He was later accused of sexual abuse.

James W. Aylward

• Settled
  

Aylward was accused of sexually abusing a boy in 1997. He admitted to inappropriately touching numerous boys over a 12-year period. Civil claims were resolved by settlement.

Theodore Baquedano Pech

• Accused
  

Baquedano Pech, a priest of the Archdiocese of Yucatán, Mexico, served in the Archdiocese of San Francisco from 1967 to 1975. A woman reported that he sexually abused her for several years, beginning when she was 11 years old.

Salvatore Billante

• Guilty plea
  

Billante sexually abused as many as 25 boys between 1969 and 1989. He was sentenced to eight years in prison in 1989, released in 1994, and required to register as a sex offender.

Jean-Pierre Bongila

• Settled
  

Bongila was accused of sexually abusing a girl between 1996 and 2000. He was cleared by church authorities in 2006 and subsequently became the founding director of the International Leadership Program at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Roberto Bravo

• Accused
  

Bravo was accused of sexually abusing six teenage girls in 1999. He was transferred to Utah and later to San Francisco. He was included on the Holy Name Province Dominicans’ list of accused clergy in 2021.

Daniel E. Carter

• Sued
  

A woman filed a police report alleging Carter sexually abused her in the late 1970s when she was eight years old and a student at Notre Dame des Victoires School in San Francisco. The archdiocese deemed the allegations inconclusive and allowed Carter to remain in active ministry.

Edmond G. Cloutier

• Sued
  

Cloutier, ordained for the Diocese of Portland, Maine, was accused of sexually abusing four boys at Star of the Sea parish in San Francisco. He was removed from ministry and retired on December 31, 1980. He died on April 9, 2003.

Arthur Manuel Cunha

• Convicted
  

Cunha was arrested in 1986 for molesting two boys and was sentenced to 60 days in jail and four months in a counseling center. At least three civil lawsuits were filed against him alleging sexual abuse.

Bernard Dabbene

• Convicted
  

In 1959, a ninth-grade student reported that Dabbene had molested him twice. Additional allegations were reported to the Diocese of Oakland in 1971. In 2000, Dabbene was arrested for molesting a 17-year-old boy.

Harold Danielson

• Sued
  

Danielson served as associate pastor at Saints Peter and Paul parish in San Francisco. In 2005, he denied allegations of child sexual abuse raised in civil litigation.

Charles J. Durkin

• Accused
  

Durkin retired in 2002 shortly after the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office requested church records related to years of sexual abuse allegations. He died in 2006.

Hal Ellis

• Settled
  

Ellis was accused of sexual abuse by at least two priests while residing at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center, a retirement facility for priests in Los Gatos, California. The allegations resulted in a settlement. No criminal prosecution is recorded in publicly available disclosures.

Linh Tien Nguyen

• Sued
  

Nguyen was accused of sexually abusing a boy between 2005 and 2008. He was placed on administrative leave in October 2022. Two months later, he was reinstated by the Archdiocese of San Francisco while the civil case remained pending.

Robert J. Gemmet

• Sued
  

Gemmet was accused of repeatedly sexually abusing an altar boy beginning in 1967, when the boy was age 10. He served at St. Timothy Parish in San Mateo, St. Christopher Parish in San Jose, and St. Mary Parish in Gilroy. A civil lawsuit was filed.

Elwood F. Geary

• Sued
  

Geary, founding pastor of Our Lady Queen of Apostles in San Jose, was accused of sexually abusing a boy in 1968. The allegation was raised in a civil lawsuit. No criminal prosecution is recorded.

David A. Ghiorso

• Sued
  

The Archdiocese of San Francisco announced that Ghiorso was accused of sexually abusing a minor 30 to 40 years earlier. He was placed on leave pending investigation. By June 23, 2022, three civil lawsuits had been filed.

Martin F. Greenlaw

• Sued
  

Greenlaw was accused in a 2022 lawsuit of sexually abusing an eight-year-old boy in the 1980s. He previously pleaded guilty in the mid-1990s to embezzling church funds. Greenlaw died in 2018.

Michael D. Harriman

• Sued
  

Harriman, a monsignor, was sued under the California Child Victims Act. The Archdiocese review board did not substantiate the allegation. No criminal charges were filed.

John P. Heaney

• Indicted
  

Heaney, a former senior chaplain for the San Francisco Police Department, was placed on leave after allegations that he sexually abused two brothers. Criminal proceedings followed the allegations.

Gregory G. Ingels

• Charged
  

Ingels, a noted canon law scholar, was accused of engaging in oral sex with a 15-year-old boy. He was placed on leave in 2002 and later charged with sexual misconduct.

Frank Ivey

• Accused
  

Ivey was named publicly as credibly accused by the Santa Barbara Province Franciscans in September 2020. He was dismissed from ministry in 2016 following allegations of sexual abuse of minors.

Austin Peter Keegan

• Settled
  

Keegan was ordained for San Francisco and later transferred to Santa Rosa. He was stripped of duties in 1982, relocated to Baja California, and indicted in 2002 on allegations involving up to 75 children. Charges were dropped in 2003.

John P. Kavanaugh

• Sued
  

A man alleged Kavanaugh sexually abused him over three years beginning at age seven. The abuse was reportedly disclosed to nuns and a teacher at the time, but no action was taken. A civil lawsuit was later filed.

Daniel T. Keohane

• Accused
  

Keohane was placed on administrative leave in March 2011 after an old allegation of sexual abuse surfaced. He denied the allegation. No criminal charges are recorded.

Jerome Leach

• Arrested
  

Leach was accused of molesting an altar boy in 1976. Criminal charges were later dismissed following a U.S. Supreme Court statute-of-limitations ruling.

Epiphanius Lewis

• Accused
  

Lewis was named publicly by the Santa Barbara Province Franciscans as accused of sexual abuse of minors occurring between 1964 and 1968.

John A. Lynch

• Sued
  

Lynch, longtime pastor of St. Teresa’s Parish in San Francisco, was accused in civil lawsuits filed between 2020 and 2022 of child sexual abuse. He died in 1961.

Philip E. McCrillis

• Settled
  

Two sisters sued McCrillis in 2004 alleging sexual abuse during the 1960s and a sexual relationship with their mother. The case settled for a low six-figure amount.

William S. Myers

• Accused
  

Myers was removed from St. Raymond’s Parish in Menlo Park following allegations of boundary violations involving a 17-year-old boy. He entered treatment for sexual addiction involving adults.

John Moriarty

• Settled
  

Moriarty was accused of sexually abusing a 17-year-old boy while assigned to the Christian Brothers Retreat House in St. Helena from 1974 to 1978. He died on May 9, 2013.

Guy Anthony Murnig

• Settled
  

Murnig was accused by two women of sexually abusing them while they were high school students. He left the priesthood in 1978 and was laicized by Pope John Paul II.

John J. O’Connor

• Accused
  

O’Connor was placed on leave in 2002 following a recent allegation of improper contact with a boy. No criminal prosecution is recorded.

Patrick J. O’Shea

• Charged
  

O’Shea was charged with abusing at least nine boys between the 1960s and 1980s. Charges were dismissed. He was later convicted of theft exceeding $200,000 from the archdiocese.

Danilo Pacheco

• Accused
  

Pacheco was accused of molestation at two Catholic high schools in Southern California and also served in the Diocese of Oakland. He died on July 25, 2005.

Richard P. Presenti

• Sued
  

Presenti admitted to abusing a 14-year-old boy in 1973. He remained in active ministry and was later sued by three men alleging abuse as teenagers. He was listed by the Diocese of Oakland in 2019.

Miles O’Brien Riley

• Accused
  

Riley, an author and actor, was accused of engaging in consensual sexual contact short of intercourse with a female parishioner in the early 1970s.

Christian Sandholdt

• Accused
  

Sandholdt was accused of sexually abusing minors while working with teenagers and involved in the charismatic movement. He died by suicide in 1979.

Francis Joseph Scanlon

• Sued
  

A 2020 lawsuit alleged Scanlon repeatedly sexually abused an altar boy at St. Andrew’s Parish in Oakland, including forced oral sex and sodomy.

Carl Anthony Schipper

• Convicted
  

Schipper was arrested in March 2000 and pleaded no contest to engaging in explicit sexual conversations online with someone he believed was a 13-year-old boy.

Lawrence Gerard Smith

• Convicted
  

Smith, associated with an Old Catholic sect, was sentenced to eight months in jail for sexually molesting Vietnamese boys.

Wellington Joseph Stanislaus

• Indicted
  

Stanislaus was accused of molesting teenage boys and transferred from San Jose to Phoenix. He was dismissed from the Jesuits in 1972 and listed by the Jesuits West Province in 2018.

Jose Superiaso

• Convicted
  

Ordained in the Philippines, Superiaso arrived in the U.S. in 1989 and was arrested in 2003 for sexually abusing a girl aged 12 to 13 in California between 1994 and 1995.

Henry J. Trainor

• Accused
  

Trainor was placed on leave in summer 2002 from his role as chaplain at Laguna Honda Hospital and suspended later that year after prosecutors received information about sexual abuse allegations.

Leo Donald Tubbs

• Accused
  

Tubbs, a Dominican priest, was accused of non-genital sexual touching of a boy aged 14 to 17 in the mid-1980s in Oregon. He was removed from public ministry in 1992 and died in 2021.

Robert M. Van Handel

• Convicted
  

Van Handel, founder of the Santa Barbara Boys’ Choir and principal of St. Anthony’s Seminary High School, admitted pedophilic behavior in 1992. He was sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually abusing a student.

Milton T. Walsh

• Indicted
  

Walsh was accused in 1984 of abusing a 13-year-old boy and remained in ministry until August 2002. Criminal charges were dismissed following a U.S. Supreme Court statute-of-limitations ruling.

Peter J. Yost

• Settled
  

Yost was accused of inappropriate physical contact with a boy around age 12 in the early 1960s. He was later deemed not to pose a danger to children by a psychiatrist, and the case was settled.

Diocese of Fresno CA

Francis X. Darmady

• Accused
  

Darmady was publicly listed as credibly accused by the Diocese of Fresno in 2021. Records note his assignment to St. Alphonsus Parish in Fresno from 1936 to 1938. He died on March 27, 1955, in St. Louis, Missouri. The diocesan disclosure lists his surname misspelled as “Darmaddy.”

Henry F. Angelino

• Arrested
  

Angelino was arrested in 1952 and charged with two counts of immoral conduct with a boy. He admitted to improper conduct involving two boys over a period exceeding one year. No later criminal outcomes are recorded. He died in 1986.

John J. Boyle

• Accused
  

Boyle was ordained for the Diocese of Monterey-Fresno and later served within the Diocese of Fresno. He was named as credibly accused on the Fresno diocesan list released in August 2021. Boyle died in 1987.

John A. Bradley

• Sued
  

Bradley was sued by a woman who alleged sexual abuse in the early 1960s while she was pregnant. He does not appear in the Official Catholic Directory after 1970. No criminal prosecution is documented in available disclosures.

Tod David Brown

• Accused
  

Tod David Brown, later bishop of Boise and then Orange, was accused in 1997 of sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy in 1965 while serving at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Bakersfield. The Diocese of Fresno deemed the allegation not credible, and Kern County prosecutors took no action. Brown acknowledged in a 2007 deposition that the accusation had been made and investigated while he was a sitting bishop.

Hermy Dave O. Ceniza

• Sued
  

Hermy Dave O. Ceniza, ordained in 1977 for the Archdiocese of Davao, was accused in a civil fraud suit filed in April 2010 against the Diocese of Fresno. A former altar boy alleged Ceniza sexually abused him for about two years around 1991 at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Bakersfield, after which Ceniza was reportedly sent back to the Philippines.

Gerald F. Chavez

• Accused
  

Chavez was publicly identified as credibly accused on the Diocese of Fresno’s list released in August 2021. According to his obituary, he was placed on permanent medical leave in 2017. He died in 2020.

James Collins

• Settled
  

Collins was accused of sexually abusing a girl over a five-year period in the early 1960s while assigned to St. Mary’s Parish in Buttonwillow, California. He was also accused of abusing another girl multiple times between 1958 and 1960, when she was approximately 8 to 10 years old.

Frederic P. Crowley

• Accused
  

Crowley, a monsignor, was publicly identified as credibly accused by the Diocese of Fresno in its August 2021 disclosure. He died in 1972. The diocesan listing places him among clergy with substantiated allegations under the diocese’s review standards, though no criminal proceedings are recorded in the public summary.

Robert Davis

• Accused
  

Davis was named as credibly accused on the Diocese of Fresno’s August 2021 list. His ministerial faculties were suspended in 2004. Diocesan records note that laicization proceedings were underway at the time of disclosure, indicating permanent removal from clerical ministry was being pursued.

Jose Morelos

• Accused
  

Morelos was publicly listed as credibly accused by the Diocese of Fresno in 2021. He was identified as a transitional deacon from Mexico who was visiting friends in Fresno at the time of the alleged misconduct. His status indicates no long-term assignment within the diocese.

Raul Diaz

• Accused
  

Diaz was assigned to St. Catherine’s Parish in Dinuba when he was placed on leave in May 2019 during an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of minors. Law enforcement authorities were notified by the diocese. His ministerial status remained suspended pending investigation outcomes.

William C. Dodgson

• Sued
  

Dodgson served as a priest in Philadelphia before transferring to Fresno in 1958. He was arrested for fraud in 1955 and later reappeared in ministry within the Diocese of Monterey-Fresno. Civil litigation later named him in connection with abuse allegations.

John Esquivel

• Sued
  

Esquivel was accused of sexually abusing a 17- or 18-year-old girl in the mid-1980s while assigned to St. Joseph’s Parish in Bakersfield. He was suspended briefly during the investigation but returned to active ministry. As of January 2020, he remained listed as active.

Thomas Farrell

• Indicted
  

Farrell was named as credibly accused by the Diocese of Fresno in its 2021 disclosure. Records note he left the diocese in 1945. He died in 1962 at Via Coeli, a Servants of the Paraclete facility, which historically housed clergy removed from ministry.

Miguel Flores

• Sued
  

In 2002, a 16-year-old girl accused Flores, a priest from Guadalajara, Mexico, of sexual assault. He was acquitted by a jury and returned to ministry. In 2019, the case was reopened after new information was deemed credible by authorities.

Sauveur Tambourin

• Accused
  

Tambourin was ordained for the Diocese of Tarbes-Lourdes in France and incardinated into the Diocese of Fresno in 1971. He served as a U.S. Navy chaplain for approximately 20 years. He died in 1994. He was later named in diocesan disclosures as accused.

Benjamin S. Gabriel

• Sued
  

Gabriel was accused of abusing a boy at St. Jude’s Parish in Earlimart over a two-year period in the mid-1970s. Civil litigation named him in connection with the allegations. He died in 1986.

Robert Gamel

• Indicted
  

Gamel was removed from ministry on August 15, 2014, and investigated for internet-related sex crimes involving at least one teenage boy. He pleaded no contest to possession of child sexual abuse material, received an 11-month jail sentence and four years’ probation, and was required to register as a sex offender. He was released in December 2016.

Louis Aloysius Garcia

• Convicted
  

Garcia was convicted in 1983 of sexually abusing several developmentally disabled patients at Porterville State Hospital. He received a six-year prison sentence and was placed on the California sex offender registry. His offenses occurred outside parish ministry but were formally adjudicated.

John J. Gaynor

• Accused
  

Gaynor was publicly listed as credibly accused by the Diocese of Fresno in August 2021. Ordained in 1935, his faculties were revoked five years later. He reportedly left the diocese without permission in 1941 and died in 1953.

Jorge de Jesus Gomez Forunda

• Accused
  

Gomez was ordained in Guatemala and later served as an extern priest in the Diocese of Fresno. He was identified in diocesan disclosures as accused, with no long-term incardination noted in Fresno records.

Ramon Salvador Gomez

• Accused
  

Gomez was publicly named as accused by the Archdiocese of San Antonio in January 2019. He was dismissed from that diocese after California law enforcement informed church officials of allegations of child sexual abuse connected to his prior ministry.

Craig F. Harrison

• Accused
  

Harrison, a monsignor, was suspended in April 2019 following allegations of inappropriate touching of a boy aged 14 to 16 decades earlier in Firebaugh. Two additional men later alleged abuse as minors. Harrison filed a slander lawsuit against church-affiliated groups and the diocese.

Anthony G. Herdegen

• Settled
  

Herdegen, a monsignor, was sued for alleged abuse of two brothers beginning in 1959, when they were between ages 5 and 19. The case was dismissed under the statute of limitations. He was nevertheless included on the Diocese of Fresno’s August 2021 list of credibly accused clergy.

Ronald LaBarrera Villarreal

• Accused
  

Villarreal was ordained for the Diocese of Trujillo, Peru, and later worked as an extern priest in the Diocese of Fresno. He was named in diocesan records as accused, with no indication of permanent assignment within the diocese.

Robert H. Lewis

• Sued
  

Lewis was accused of sexual abuse of minors and was later named in civil litigation. He resided in Mexico for an extended period and died there in 1978. His ministry history reflects removal from active clerical roles.

Michael J. Mangan

• Accused
  

Mangan, a monsignor, was publicly identified as credibly accused by the Diocese of Fresno in its 2021 disclosure. No criminal proceedings are detailed in the diocesan summary, but his status reflects substantiated allegations under church review.

Patrick J. McGrath

• Indicted
  

McGrath, a monsignor ordained in 1906 for the former Diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles, was included on the Diocese of Fresno’s 2021 list of credibly accused clergy. He died in 1943. The listing reflects posthumous findings.

Pascal Merola

• Accused
  

Merola was ordained for the Diocese of Monterey-Fresno, but his faculties were suspended in 1934. He later joined the Benedictine order. He was later identified in diocesan disclosures as accused.

Anthony Moreno

• Settled
  

Moreno was accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl between 1979 and 1980 at St. Philip the Apostle Parish in Bakersfield. He was placed on leave in 1981 and ceased priestly service in 1995. The matter was later settled.

John Naldoza Nacauili

• Accused
  

Nacauili was ordained for the Archdiocese of Jaro in the Philippines. He returned to the Philippines in 1991 and died in 1998. He was later named in diocesan disclosures as accused.

Walter Nicholson

• Accused
  

Nicholson was ordained in 1926 for the Diocese of Ossory in Ireland and incardinated the same year into the Diocese of Cheyenne. He served as an extern priest in the Diocese of Fresno from 1944 to 1947. He died in 1947 and was later identified as accused.

Vincent A. O’Connell

• Sued
  

O’Connell was originally from Ireland and later worked in Nigeria before being assigned to St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Fresno in 1970. He was accused of manually raping a 16-year-old girl. By 2013, he was reported to be living in Ireland.

Bernardine Solvyns

• Accused
  

Solvyns was ordained in Belgium and later served in California. He was publicly identified as credibly accused by the Diocese of Fresno in its August 2021 list. Records note that he served as pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in California City from 1969 to 1985.

Eric Swearingen

• Settled
  

Swearingen was pastor of Holy Spirit Parish when he was sued in 2002. He was briefly placed on leave. The diocese later determined the allegation was not credible after the district attorney declined prosecution, and he returned to ministry. He was named rector of a diocesan high school in December 2007. He died on January 18, 2020, at age 58.

Jose Luis Vega Sanchez

• Accused
  

Vega was ordained for the Diocese of Tulancingo, Mexico, and incardinated into the Diocese of Fresno in 1990. He retired to Mexico in 2004. He was later named in diocesan disclosures as accused.

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Marcos Capistran Chavira

• Accused
  

Chavira was accused of abusing at least one male student at Palma High School in Salinas. He died at age 70 in May 2002. Records note that a civil lawsuit was anticipated in January 2014 if California Senate Bill 131 took effect.

Patrick J. Daly

• Accused
  

Daly, a monsignor from Ireland, was ordained in 1915 and began ministry in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles the same year. He was publicly named as accused on the Diocese of Monterey’s list released January 2, 2019. A report received in 2002 alleged abuse occurring in 1958. He died on November 14, 1966.

Gilbert Roman Meyer

• Accused
  

Meyer, a monsignor, was publicly named as accused on the Diocese of Monterey list dated January 2, 2019. Alleged abuse from 1961 to 1964 was reported to the diocese in 2010. He was also included on the Diocese of Fresno’s August 2021 list of credibly accused clergy. He retired in 1990 and died on November 5, 2020, at age 105.

Felix Migliazzo

• Accused
  

Migliazzo was ordained for the Maryknoll Order and arrived in Monterey in 1967. He retired in 1987. He was publicly named as accused on the Monterey diocese’s January 2, 2019 list following a report received in 2007 alleging abuse in the 1970s. He died on May 21, 2005.

Phillip Abinate

• Accused
  

Abinate was publicly named as accused on the Diocese of Monterey’s January 2, 2019 list. Reports to the diocese in 2003 alleged abuse occurring in 1970, 1971, and 1975. He died on June 27, 2008.

Orlando Alberto Battagliola

• Sued
  

Battagliola arrived in the Monterey-Fresno diocese in 1963. He was found murdered in a San Francisco motel room in February 1977. He was later included on the Diocese of Monterey’s January 2, 2019 list of credibly accused clergy.

Stuart Bede Campbell

• Sued
  

A civil case filed in Fresno County in 2003 or 2004 accused Campbell of abuse occurring between 1956 and 1959, prior to the creation of the Diocese of Monterey. He was included on multiple lists of credibly accused clergy, including the Diocese of Fresno’s 2021 list.

Thomas Condon

• Accused
  

Condon was publicly named as accused on the Diocese of Monterey’s January 2, 2019 list. A report received in 2003 alleged abuse occurring in 1959. He died on July 29, 1983.

Antonio Cortes

• Convicted
  

Cortes was arrested for sexual assault and providing alcohol to a 16-year-old boy, as well as possession of child sexual abuse material. He was sentenced to one year in jail and probation. After sentencing, he fled to his home state of Jalisco, Mexico.

Edward Crews

• Accused
  

Crews was publicly named as accused on the Diocese of Monterey’s January 2, 2019 list. A report received in 2002 alleged abuse occurring in 1954. He died in 1985.

Ronald Gordon Drum

• Accused
  

Drum was accused in 1972 and left his religious order the same year. He later worked as a typesetter for the State of California. His case is referenced in diocesan records without further criminal proceedings noted.

Vincent Dwyer

• Settled
  

Dwyer was a Trappist monk originally from Worcester, Massachusetts. He was accused of sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl over a 13-year period. He later received numerous awards and honors for his writings.

Juan Carlos Esquivel

• Accused
  

Esquivel, a seminarian, was publicly named as accused on the Diocese of Monterey’s January 2, 2019 list. A report received in 2007 alleged abuse occurring the same year.

Carl Faria

• Accused
  

Faria was publicly named as accused on the Diocese of Monterey’s January 2, 2019 list. Reports received in 2002 alleged abuse occurring between 1968 and 1971 and again from 1973 to 1976. His faculties were removed in 2002.

Edward Fitz-Henry

• Settled
  

Fitz-Henry was ordained in Ireland and served in Monterey for more than 20 years. He was removed from ministry after a complaint received in January 2011 alleging abuse. He sued the Diocese of Monterey, which settled the case for $500,000. He left the priesthood and requested laicization.

Luis Garcia

• Accused
  

Garcia was a seminarian publicly named as accused on the Diocese of Monterey’s January 2, 2019 list. Alleged abuse in 1982 was reported to the diocese in 2009.

Henry Hall

• Sued
  

Hall was ordained in Dublin, Ireland, and later pastored Holy Trinity Parish in Greenfield, California. He retired to Escondido and died in 2005. He was accused of child sexual abuse and named in civil litigation.

Edward T. Haskins

• Accused
  

Haskins was publicly named as accused on the Diocese of Monterey’s January 17, 2019 list. A report received in 1996 alleged abuse occurring in the 1950s and 1960s. He died on February 22, 1981. He was also included on the Diocese of Fresno’s August 2021 list of credibly accused clergy.

John Jairo Velez

• Settled
  

Velez abused a Salinas altar boy along with another priest. The Diocese of Monterey expelled him and notified his religious order, which recalled him to Mexico and assigned an escort to ensure his return.

Manuel Jimenez

• Accused
  

Jimenez, a seminarian, was publicly named as accused on the Diocese of Monterey’s January 2, 2019 list. Abuse alleged in 1994 was reported to the diocese in 1999.

Gregory Kareta

• Sued
  

Kareta was accused of abusing an 11-year-old boy between 1973 and 1974. Charges were dismissed due to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on statutes of limitations. He also admitted to abusing a youth in Wisconsin in the 1960s.

Scott McCarthy

• Reinstated
  

McCarthy was reported for abuse in 1976, retired, and had his faculties removed. He appealed to the Vatican. In 2021, he was removed from the Diocese of Monterey’s list of credibly accused clergy.

Michael McDonald

• Settled
  

McDonald was ordained in Ireland and incardinated into the Diocese of Monterey-Fresno in 1958. A man alleged that McDonald sexually abused him multiple times between 1964 and 1967. The matter was later settled.

Albert Mengon

• Accused
  

Mengon was a former teacher at Salesian High School in Richmond and allegedly abused youth at a Salesian camp. He also worked in the Diocese of Oakland. He was later named in diocesan disclosures as accused.

Charles L. Moore

• Accused
  

Moore, known as “Fr. Charlie,” was publicly named as accused on the Diocese of Monterey’s January 2, 2019 list. Abuse in 1974 was reported to the diocese in 2003. He died on December 9, 2007.

Thomas J. Neary

• Accused
  

Neary, a monsignor, was accused of abuse occurring in 1958. He died in 1983. He was later included on diocesan lists of accused clergy.

Colman O’Connor

• Accused
  

O’Connor was from Ireland and retired in 1993, returning to his home country. He was publicly named as accused on the Diocese of Monterey’s January 2, 2019 list. Abuse alleged between 1979 and 1980 was reported to the diocese in 1993. He died on March 3, 1996.

Joseph Pacheco

• Settled
  

Pacheco, a monsignor, was sued in 2003 for abuse of a youth. The Diocese of Monterey agreed to pay $750,000 to settle the lawsuit.

John W. Pierson

• Accused
  

Pierson was publicly named as accused on the Diocese of Monterey’s January 2, 2019 list. A report received in 1995 alleged abuse occurring between 1973 and 1979. He died on December 14, 1992.

Joseph Sheehan

• Accused
  

Sheehan was publicly named as accused on the Diocese of Monterey’s January 2, 2019 list. A report received in 1992 alleged abuse occurring between 1971 and 1975. He is deceased.

Rino Spada

• Accused
  

Spada was publicly named as accused on the Diocese of Monterey’s January 2, 2019 list. A report received in 2011 alleged abuse occurring between 1967 and 1969. He died on August 20, 2002.

Paul R. Valdez

• Settled
  

In December 1998, an 11-year-old sixth grader at Sacred Heart School in Salinas reported that Fr. Paul R. Valdez placed his hand on her groin during confession. The disclosure was raised to school staff in March 1999 and investigated by police for approximately six months, with no criminal charges filed. The parents sued the Diocese of Monterey in December 1999. The civil case later resolved through an out-of-court settlement.

Joseph R. Watt

• Sued
  

Fr. Joseph R. Watt was assigned to the Diocese of Monterey-Fresno in 1965. He was accused of sexually abusing an altar boy during the mid-1970s. Separate allegations also accused Watt and another priest of drugging a man in order to engage him in sexual acts. Both men left the parish in 1985. Watt was later named in civil litigation tied to these allegations.

James Wisecaver

• Accused
  

Br. James Wisecaver professed perpetual vows in 1967 and taught math and science at high schools, universities, and colleges. In 1997, he was publicly identified as accused of sexual abuse. His name later appeared on the Diocese of Monterey’s list of accused clergy when the diocese released its disclosures. Wisecaver died in 2015.

Diocese of Oakland CA

Kenneth J. Cabral

• Accused
  

Fr. Kenneth J. Cabral was accused of sexual abuse connected to St. Catherine of Siena parish in Martinez during 1964 and 1965. He was placed on sick leave from 1987 through 1991, removed from ministry, and formally retired on June 30, 1991. Cabral was named publicly in 2004 at a diocesan apology service. He died March 3, 1996, and was later listed by the diocese in 2019.

Philip Colloty

• Accused
  

Fr. Philip Colloty, OFM, was publicly named as accused on May 31, 2019, when the Franciscan Province of St. Barbara released its list of clergy with credible allegations. The disclosure cited sexual abuse of a minor in 1955, reported in 2010. Colloty died in 1976. He was also included on the Diocese of Oakland’s list published June 1, 2019.

Mary Rosella McConnell

• Sued
  

Sr. Mary Rosella McConnell was accused in a civil lawsuit filed between 2020 and 2022 of sexually abusing a girl aged 15 to 16 between September 1969 and June 1971. At the time of the alleged abuse, McConnell served as vice-principal of Presentation High School in Berkeley, a position she held from 1967 through 1979. The complainant was a student at the school.

Jeffrey N. Acebo

• Sued
  

In 1986, Fr. Jeffrey N. Acebo admitted to Bishop John Cummins that he had molested a 16-year-old girl. He was sent for treatment and later reassigned. Acebo was eventually removed from ministry and assigned to a life of prayer and penance. His conduct later appeared in civil litigation and diocesan disclosures involving the Diocese of Oakland.

Floyd Begin

• Sued
  

Floyd Begin was accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl in 1968. He died in 1977. The allegation has since appeared in public accounting of abuse claims associated with the Diocese of Oakland and has been included in historical summaries of accused clergy.

Thomas Duong Binh-Minh

• Accused
  

Thomas Duong Binh-Minh was publicly named by the Diocese of Oakland in 2019. The diocesan disclosure cited abuse occurring in 1987. He was removed from ministry in April 2002. His name appeared on the diocese’s list of accused clergy along with assignment history maintained in diocesan records.

Vincent Ignatius Breen

• Sued
  

Vincent Ignatius Breen was forced to retire at age 70, sent for treatment, and relocated after allegations that he fondled eight girls over an approximately 18-month period. Public reporting has also described a broader pattern of alleged abuse spanning from the 1950s through the 1980s. Breen later appeared on the Diocese of Oakland’s list of accused clergy.

Donald Eugene Broderson

• Settled
  

Donald Eugene Broderson was accused of repeatedly molesting an altar boy during the 1970s. He was forced into retirement in 1991 and later officially retired. His case was included in later diocesan disclosures and referenced in reporting related to settlements involving the Diocese of Oakland.

Alexander Q. Castillo

• Accused
  

Alexander Q. Castillo, originally from Costa Rica, arrived in the United States in 2008 and was assigned to parishes in Oakley and Fremont. He was placed on leave during an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct involving a minor. Reports state that Castillo fled the country while the investigation was ongoing.

Ricardo Michael Chavez

• Settled
  

In late 2020, allegations against Rev. Michael Chavez were resolved through a reported $3.5 million settlement. The case involved claims that Chavez sexually abused an altar boy at St. Peter Martyr parish in Pittsburg, California. Attorneys for the plaintiff stated that Chavez had faced prior accusations involving minors during the 1990s.

James A. Clark

• Settled
  

James A. Clark was arrested and convicted in 1963 of oral copulation with a 19-year-old man. Despite the conviction, he was transferred to Corpus Christi parish in Fremont in 1965. Subsequent allegations described sexual abuse of numerous children following the transfer. His conduct later appeared in diocesan summaries of abuse cases.

Hilary Cooper

• Accused
  

Hilary Cooper was publicly listed by the Diocese of Oakland in 2019 as accused of sexual abuse. Diocesan records note his removal from ministry in 1995 and assignment to a life of prayer and penance. His name has remained on the diocese’s publicly released lists of accused clergy.

Virendra Coutts

• Accused
  

Virendra Coutts was named publicly on the Diocese of Oakland’s 2019 list of accused clergy. The disclosure did not clearly specify whether he served as a priest or deacon. His inclusion reflects a credible allegation acknowledged by the diocese within its published records.

George E. Crespin

• Settled
  

George E. Crespin was accused of molesting a boy in 1975 while serving as pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary in Union City. He denied the allegation. In 2005, the Diocese of Oakland paid $600,000 as part of a global settlement that included the claim against Crespin.

Sidney J. Custodio

• Sued
  

Sidney J. Custodio was alleged in a lawsuit to have sexually abused a girl at St. Gregory parish in San Mateo between 1960 and 1963. He later left the priesthood and married. His last reported residence was Menlo Park. Custodio died in 2021 and was included in diocesan disclosures tied to Oakland.

Pearse P. Donovan

• Sued
  

Pearse P. Donovan was accused in a 2003 lawsuit of molesting a boy beginning in 1978 at St. Clement parish. Allegations also stated that he passed the victim to another abusive cleric. Donovan retired in 1983 and died in 1986. His name appeared on the Diocese of Oakland’s 2019 list with abuse dated to the late 1970s.

Donald W. Eagleson

• Settled
  

Donald W. Eagleson was accused of sexually abusing a boy in 1971 while serving as a Holy Cross brother and teacher at Moreau High School in Hayward. He was suspended in 2002. A civil lawsuit filed in 2004 was partially settled in 2005. Eagleson died in 2004 and later appeared on diocesan lists.

Joseph A. Ferreira

• Settled
  

In 2006, a woman filed a lawsuit alleging that Joseph A. Ferreira molested her in 1973 and 1974 while she was a teenager, and later stalked and harassed her for years. A second lawsuit followed in 2009 with similar claims. The case resolved through settlement. Ferreira was included on Oakland’s 2019 list.

Patrick Finnegan

• Accused
  

Patrick Finnegan was publicly listed by the Diocese of Oakland in 2019 with allegations dated to the 1960s and 1973. Diocesan records show he was removed from ministry on February 6, 1973. Finnegan later married and died on September 28, 1980. His name appears in published diocesan assignment and disclosure documents.

Diocese of Oakland CA

Robert E. Freitas

• Convicted
  

After two boys reported sexual abuse, Fr. Robert E. Freitas was sent to treatment and placed on restricted ministry. A separate complainant later told the diocese that Freitas molested him in 1979. Freitas admitted to abuse, was arrested, and the case proceeded through the criminal justice system. His conduct and admissions were later reflected in diocesan disclosures tied to Oakland.

George J. Francis

• Settled
  

George J. Francis was accused of raping a seven-year-old girl in 1959. In 2002, a woman filed a civil lawsuit alleging Francis sexually abused her between 1979 and 1982. The Diocese of Oakland admitted abuse and acknowledged additional victims. The case resolved through settlement and has been cited in broader summaries of diocesan abuse claims.

Adrian Furman

• Accused
  

Fr. Adrian Furman, a Franciscan priest, was publicly named as accused of sexual abuse of minors. His name appeared on Franciscan disclosures identifying clergy with credible allegations. Furman died in 2003, and his inclusion was later reflected in regional and diocesan accounting of accused religious personnel.

John G. Garcia

• Sued
  

A 34-year-old man alleged that John G. Garcia sexually abused him over a two-year period beginning when he was an eight-year-old altar boy in the late 1990s. Garcia was also accused in a separate allegation of raping a 12-year-old boy during the late 1960s. The claims were raised through civil litigation.

William S. Green

• Convicted
  

William S. Green was arrested in April 1999 for sending sexually explicit messages and pornographic material to a 14-year-old boy. He was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison. His case later appeared in diocesan and public summaries of clergy criminal convictions tied to the Diocese of Oakland.

Joseph Gutierrez-Cervantes

• Settled
  

Joseph Gutierrez-Cervantes, also known as Jesse Gutierrez, was dismissed from the Hanna Boys Center in Sonoma in 1986. He was later accused of abusing a boy at De La Salle High School. His name appeared on the Diocese of Oakland’s list of accused clergy released in 2019, with the matter later resolved through settlement.

A. Leo Hofstee

• Accused
  

A. Leo Hofstee was publicly named as accused by the Dominican Holy Name Province in October 2021. He worked extensively in the Philippines among people with leprosy beginning in 1945. Hofstee died in 1986, and his name appeared decades later as part of the order’s historical disclosures of accused members.

Domingos S. Jaques

• Sued
  

Domingos S. Jaques, a priest from India, was accused of child sexual abuse in civil litigation connected to the Diocese of Oakland. He died in 2016. The allegation was later included in public summaries of clergy abuse claims involving priests who served within the diocese.

Stephen M. Kiesle

• Convicted
  

Stephen M. Kiesle was convicted in 1978 of lewd conduct and sentenced to three years’ probation. In 2002, he was arrested on 13 counts of child molestation and later sentenced to six years in prison for abusing a girl in 1995. Additional allegations described abuse of a girl and a boy in Pinole between 1972 and 1975.

Ronald J. LaGasse

• Arrested
  

Ronald J. LaGasse was arrested in 1984 on suspicion of molesting a 17-year-old boy. He was placed on leave for approximately one year and later reassigned. In 2008, LaGasse was excommunicated. His case has been referenced in diocesan reporting concerning clerical discipline and abuse allegations.

Tarcisio D. Lanuevo

• Settled
  

The parents of two girls, ages seven and two, filed a civil lawsuit alleging that Tarcisio D. Lanuevo sexually abused their children. The suit stated that Lanuevo promised to undergo treatment and avoid contact with children if criminal charges were dropped. The civil case later resolved through settlement and was cited in diocesan abuse records.

Cornelius P. Leehan

• Sued
  

Cornelius Patrick Leehan was accused of raping a five-year-old boy at St. Alphonsus Liguori parish in San Leandro during the late 1950s to early 1960s. He was also accused of fondling the same victim approximately seven years later after being reassigned to the parish. The allegations were raised through civil litigation.

Macias Lopez

• Accused
  

Macias Lopez was publicly named as accused by the Dominican Holy Name Province in October 2021. Records note that he professed religious vows in 1981 and was later removed and dismissed from the order in 1988. His name appeared on published lists identifying accused Dominican clergy.

Gary M. Luiz

• Sued
  

Gary M. Luiz was accused of sexually abusing a boy at St. Edward’s parish in Newark, New Jersey. He later earned a canon law degree from The Catholic University of America in 1993 and by 1995 was sent to a monastery in Berkeley, California. The allegation was pursued through civil litigation.

John T. McCracken

• Sued
  

John T. McCracken, a parish priest and former director of Catholic Social Services and Charities, was accused of raping a boy between 1972 and 1974. Three additional individuals later filed lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by McCracken during their childhoods. The claims were brought through multiple civil actions.

Michael J. McGinty

• Sued
  

Msgr. Michael J. McGinty was accused in a 2022 lawsuit of sexually and physically abusing a boy aged eight or nine decades earlier. McGinty held senior clerical status within the Diocese of Oakland. He died in 1996, and the allegation surfaced posthumously through civil litigation.

Bede McKinnon

• Accused
  

Bede McKinnon, a Franciscan friar, was publicly named as accused by the Santa Barbara Province. He was assigned to St. Elizabeth’s parish in Oakland during his ministry. McKinnon died in 1998, and his name later appeared on provincial lists identifying friars accused of sexual abuse of minors.

Daniel McLeod

• Accused
  

Daniel McLeod was incardinated into the Diocese of Oakland on April 16, 1970. Diocesan records noted abuse occurring in 1969. He was removed from ministry and retired on January 18, 1987. McLeod died December 17, 2001, and his name appeared on Oakland’s public list released in 2019.

Hector David Mendoza Vela

• Convicted
  

Hector David Mendoza Vela, a priest from El Salvador, was arrested and accused of sexually abusing a boy over an 18-month period during 2016 and 2017. He was convicted and sentenced to four years and eight months in prison. His name was included on the Diocese of Oakland’s list of credibly accused clergy.

George E. Mockel

• Sued
  

George E. Mockel was accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually abusing a teenage altar server. A former federal prosecutor reviewed the allegations and determined they were not credible. Despite that assessment, the claim proceeded through civil channels and was documented in public reporting tied to Oakland-area abuse litigation.

Joaquin Moreno

• Accused
  

Joaquin Moreno, a Franciscan friar, was publicly named as accused in 1996 of sexually abusing a minor. He was later laicized in 2010. His case has been referenced in Franciscan and diocesan disclosures concerning historical abuse allegations involving members of the order.

Lawrence O’Brien

• Sued
  

Lawrence O’Brien was accused in a 2003 civil lawsuit of sexually abusing at least one youth during the 1970s and 1980s at Moreau High School in Hayward. The allegations described abuse while he served in a religious teaching role. O’Brien is deceased, and his case appeared in later diocesan disclosures.

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William Odom-Green

• Convicted
  

William Odom-Green was convicted of sexual abuse connected to his service within the Diocese of Oakland. He was later named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Owensboro, which cited his criminal conviction as the basis for inclusion. His case appears across multiple diocesan disclosures reflecting criminal findings and substantiated abuse.

Robert F. Ponciroli

• Arrested
  

Robert F. Ponciroli was removed from ministry on February 9, 1995, and sent to therapy following an allegation of sexual abuse. In February 2003, he was arrested for abusing two brothers. He was later laicized in 2005. His case appears in diocesan records documenting both criminal proceedings and disciplinary actions.

Jesus Garcia Prieto

• Sued
  

Msgr. Jesus Garcia Prieto was accused in a 2022 civil lawsuit of repeatedly sexually assaulting an elementary school student in Oakland during the 1960s. The complaint alleged that Prieto used wine and pornographic magazines to facilitate the abuse. The allegations were raised decades later through civil litigation.

James E. Prindeville

• Sued
  

James E. Prindeville left the priesthood sometime after 1961 and later married. He was accused of molesting a 16-year-old girl during 1952 and 1953. The allegation surfaced in civil proceedings and has been referenced in later summaries of historical abuse claims.

Benedict Reams

• Sued
  

Joseph Ambrose Reams, known as Benedict Reams, was a De La Salle Christian Brother who taught at Mont La Salle and St. Mary’s College. He was accused of sexually abusing minors in a civil lawsuit filed between 2020 and 2022. The claims were directed at his conduct while serving in educational roles.

Arthur A. Ribeiro

• Sued
  

Arthur A. Ribeiro was removed from ministry and retired in 1992. In 1996, two priests confronted him regarding sexual misconduct. Ribeiro died in 2000. In 2003, three men filed civil lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by Ribeiro, bringing the allegations into public court records.

Anthony P. Slane

• Sued
  

Anthony P. Slane was named in a civil lawsuit alleging sexual abuse at St. Alphonsus Liguori parish in San Leandro, California. Records also place him working within the Archdiocese of Seattle, including assignments from 1981 to 1988 at Our Lady of Good Help and Sacred Heart parishes.

Gary B. Tollner

• Accused
  

Gary B. Tollner was accused by his sister of molesting her special-needs son. Parishioners also reported suspicious behavior involving young boys, alcohol, drugs, and a hot tub installed on the rectory roof. Tollner was removed from ministry in 1995. His case was later reflected in diocesan disclosures.

Ramon Varela

• Accused
  

Ramon Varela was publicly named as accused by the Franciscan Santa Barbara Province on May 31, 2019. He was also included on the published lists of the Dioceses of Oakland, Stockton, and Fresno. His inclusion reflects cross-diocesan acknowledgment of allegations tied to his service.

John Vas

• Accused
  

A woman accused John Vas of sexually molesting her for nearly seven years, beginning in the 1960s when she was seven years old. The allegation described repeated abuse over an extended period and was later included in public disclosures of accused clergy associated with the Diocese of Oakland.

Francis Verngren

• Sued
  

In 2003, a man filed a civil lawsuit alleging that Francis Verngren sexually abused him between 1966 and 1970. During that period, Verngren served as principal and head dormitory resident at a Catholic school in Berkeley. The lawsuit settled later in 2003.

Gordon Wilcox

• Settled
  

Gordon Wilcox was named in a 2004 civil lawsuit involving Rev. Donald Eagleson, which was partially settled in 2005. Wilcox was also accused of sexually abusing a male student in 1971 while working at Moreau High School in Hayward. His conduct appeared in later diocesan reporting.

Stephen Whelan

• Settled
  

A former student alleged sexual abuse by Stephen Whelan while attending Salesian High School during 1969 and the early 1970s. A civil lawsuit was filed in 2003, resulting in a jury award of $600,000. Whelan was removed from ministry in 2008 following the verdict.

Terrence D. Wong

• Sued
  

Terrence D. Wong, a Marianist brother, was accused of sexually abusing a student at St. Joseph High School in Alameda. The allegation was raised through civil litigation and later appeared in summaries of abuse claims involving Marianist educators.

Larry Young

• Sued
  

Larry Young was accused of sexually abusing a boy aged six or seven. Young publicly denied the allegation, describing it as “absolutely false.” The claim nevertheless proceeded through civil channels and was documented in public reporting tied to the Diocese of Oakland.

Diocese of Orange CA

Andrew Christian Andersen

• Convicted
  

Andrew Christian Andersen was convicted on 26 felony counts of molesting four boys and initially sentenced to five years of probation. He was later arrested in New Mexico and sentenced to six years in prison. Andersen was laicized following his convictions, and his case is documented across multiple jurisdictions.

Sofronio A. Aranda

• Settled
  

Sofronio A. Aranda, born in the Philippines, served in Corona for approximately five years. In 2004, the Diocese of Orange publicly named him as one of six priests accused of sexually abusing minors. His case later resolved through settlement as part of diocesan litigation.

Gregory Atherton

• Settled
  

Gregory Atherton was sued in 1993 and accused of sexually abusing three boys. He also faced allegations within the Diocese of Orange. In 2005, his case settled for $4,169,325. Despite the settlement, Atherton was not included on the diocese’s official list of accused priests.

Lawrence J. Baird

• Accused
  

Msgr. Lawrence J. Baird was accused of sexually abusing a girl who sought his counsel after previously being abused by Rev. John Lenihan. The allegation placed Baird in a position of authority during the reported misconduct and later appeared in public summaries of abuse claims.

Franklin Buckman

• Settled
  

Franklin Buckman was accused of sexually abusing minors between 1962 and 1981. He resigned from his parish in 1984 following an abuse allegation and later transferred to the Diocese of Baker, Oregon. He was eventually removed from ministry. His case settled in 2005 for $1,959,700.

Santino Anthony Casimano

• Settled
  

Santino Anthony Casimano was accused of sexually abusing two brothers while serving in the Diocese of Orange. The claims resolved through a $4.2 million settlement in 2005. Casimano died later that same year. His case was included in diocesan abuse accounting tied to the settlement.

Richard Delahunty

• Settled
  

Richard Delahunty was placed on leave pending an investigation into an allegation that he sexually molested a boy in 1981. A civil lawsuit followed and later settled in 2005. Delahunty retired from ministry in 2016 after the resolution of the case.

Sinon F. Falvey

• Sued
  

Sinon F. Falvey served as pastor of St. Norbert Church in Orange. He died on February 7, 2005, at age 85. He was later named as an abuser in a civil lawsuit filed on June 25, 2009, alleging sexual abuse during his ministry.

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

• Sued
  

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick was accused of sexually abusing a boy over a prolonged period from 1976 through 1992. In September 2022, four additional former students filed claims alleging abuse by Fitzpatrick, followed by three more claims filed several months later. The allegations span decades of reported misconduct.

Robert C. Foley

• Settled
  

In 1985, Robert C. Foley admitted to molesting an eight-year-old boy. Michael Driscoll, then chancellor of the Diocese of Orange, contacted a priest in Liverpool, England, seeking placement for Foley. Foley was never criminally prosecuted for the admitted abuse. His case later resolved through settlement.

Michael A. Harris

• Settled
  

Michael A. Harris was accused by multiple victims, including allegations raised by the mother of a youth who later died of AIDS. A third accuser settled with the diocese for $5.2 million in 2001. Additional victims filed civil lawsuits in 2003, expanding the scope of the claims.

Bertrand W. Horvath

• Sued
  

Bertrand W. Horvath was accused of sexually abusing an altar boy in the early 1970s. In 2002, his religious order sued the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Horvath was placed on leave and retired in 2001. His case appears in both civil and ecclesiastical proceedings.

Edgardo Arrunataegui Jimenez

• Accused
  

Edgardo Arrunataegui Jimenez was ordained in Peru and later worked in Honduras and the Diocese of Orange. He left Orange in the early 1990s for what was described as missionary work in Peru. In 2017, he was found working as a hospital chaplain in Chimbote, Peru, despite prior concerns raised about his conduct.

John Gregory Knoernschild

• Settled
  

John Gregory Knoernschild was accused by a former Crespi Carmelite High School student of sexually abusing him during 1977 and 1978. In October 2006, his case was included in a $10 million settlement involving the Carmelite Order and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

John Peter Lenihan

• Settled
  

John Peter Lenihan, originally from Ireland, was accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl during the 1970s. Criminal charges were later dropped following a California Supreme Court ruling on statutes of limitation. Lenihan was suspected of fleeing to Mexico after allegations surfaced in the United States.

John Lord

• Settled
  

John Lord was named by the Diocese of Orange in 2003 as one of six priests accused of sexually abusing minors. He died in February 1989 at age 46 from complications related to AIDS. His case was included in diocesan disclosures tied to historical abuse claims.

Alexander Manville

• Settled
  

A man filed a civil lawsuit alleging that Alexander Manville sexually abused him at age eight. The case named Manville and another cleric and was resolved through an out-of-court settlement. The religious order involved did not join in the settlement, and the allegations were later reflected in diocesan reporting.

Diocese of Orange CA

Thomas Joseph Mohan

• Sued
  

Msgr. Thomas Joseph Mohan was first publicly accused in a civil lawsuit filed on October 2, 2018. The plaintiff alleged Mohan sexually abused him over a two-year period beginning in 1978, when he was a minor. The abuse was said to have occurred repeatedly during Mohan’s ministry. Mohan died in 2002. The allegations surfaced posthumously through civil litigation.

Dominic Nguyen

• Accused
  

Dominic Nguyen was transferred from the Diocese of Orange to Idaho in 2002 following an admitted affair with an adult woman. In 2003, he was returned to Orange after a repair technician discovered child pornography on his computer. Diocesan records later reflected the incident in disclosures tied to misconduct involving minors.

Gordon John Pillon

• Sued
  

In 2006, the Diocese of Peoria placed Gordon John Pillon on leave after learning of allegations of sexual misconduct dating to the early 1980s. In 2009, a former priest filed a civil lawsuit alleging Pillon sexually abused him while he was a teenager in California. The claims spanned multiple decades and jurisdictions.

Edward Poettgen

• Sued
  

Edward Poettgen was accused of molesting a six-year-old boy while assigned to St. Polycarp parish in Stanton in 1994. He was placed on administrative leave prior to January 29, 2020. The allegation was pursued through civil litigation and later referenced in diocesan disclosures.

Luis Eduardo Ramirez

• Convicted
  

Luis Eduardo Ramirez was arrested in 2008 and later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery and burglary. He was sentenced to six months in jail followed by three years of probation. His conviction was recorded in criminal court and later reflected in diocesan accounting of clergy criminal cases.

Timothy Ramaekers

• Sued
  

In the early 2000s, the Diocese of Orange notified parishioners that a man had alleged Timothy Ramaekers sexually abused him as a minor. The diocesan review board concluded there was no credible evidence supporting the claim. Ramaekers remained in active ministry following the review.

John Edward Ruhl

• Settled
  

John Edward Ruhl, a Vincentian priest, was accused of sexually abusing at least three minors between 1970 and 1982. He died in 2018. Ruhl was included on the Diocese of Springfield–Cape Girardeau’s list of accused clergy updated April 1, 2019. His case resolved through settlement prior to his death.

Cesar Salazar

• Accused
  

Cesar Salazar was placed on administrative leave while the Diocese of Orange investigated allegations that he downloaded child pornography. The Federal Bureau of Investigation also conducted a parallel investigation. The allegations resulted in removal from ministry pending further action.

John A. Sheahan

• Sued
  

John A. Sheahan was accused of sexually abusing four children between 1961 and 1965. He later took medical retirement in 2003. The allegations were raised through civil litigation and documented in diocesan summaries of historical abuse claims.

Gerardo Jarencio Tanilong

• Convicted
  

Msgr. Gerardo Jarencio Tanilong was arrested after a 15-year-old girl reported that he molested her earlier the same week. He was immediately placed on leave. Tanilong was convicted and sentenced to six months in jail and three years of probation. The criminal case concluded with court-imposed supervision.

Diocese of Sacramento CA

Michael Prouix

• Accused
  

Michael Prouix was publicly named as accused by the Diocese of Sacramento on April 30, 2019. An allegation received in 2011 accused him of raping a boy under age 14 during the 1950s. Prouix served at Sacred Heart parish in Alturas from 1945 to 1959.

Thomas G. Allender

• Accused
  

Thomas G. Allender was publicly identified as accused by the Diocese of Sacramento on April 30, 2019. He was removed from ministry and placed under a safety plan restricting contact with minors. The diocese acknowledged a credible allegation tied to his clerical service.

Alejandro Arroyo

• Accused
  

Alejandro Arroyo, a deacon, was accused of sexually abusing girls under age 14 between 1977 and 1983. He was publicly named by the Diocese of Sacramento and removed from ministry. His faculties were formally withdrawn in 2012 following review of the allegations.

Gerardo Beltran Rico

• Indicted
  

Gerardo Beltran Rico was arrested in Mexico in 2008 on allegations involving sexual abuse of young girls. He was released prior to extradition. New allegations surfaced in 2019 and 2020 accusing Rico of sexually abusing boys under ages 18 and 14, renewing international attention to his case.

Edward Boyle

• Sued
  

In 2002, a woman filed a civil lawsuit against the Diocese of Sacramento alleging that Edward Boyle molested her in 1967 when she was a minor. The claim was pursued decades after the alleged abuse and entered the public record through civil court proceedings.

Vincent Brady

• Settled
  

Vincent Brady, ordained for the Diocese of Sacramento, was accused of sexually abusing girls during the 1970s. He was sent for treatment, later reassigned, and eventually retired. The claims were resolved through settlement and referenced in diocesan disclosures of abuse cases.

James Casey

• Accused
  

James Casey, originally from Ireland, was ordained for the Diocese of Sacramento and retired in 1974. He died in 1992. An allegation received by the diocese in 2011 accused him of abusing a boy during the 1950s. He was publicly named on the diocesan list released April 30, 2019.

Robert Casper

• Accused
  

Robert Casper, also known as Berthold Rudolph Casper, was publicly accused by the Diocese of Sacramento of sexually abusing a boy in 1962. His name appeared on the diocese’s list of accused clergy as part of its 2019 public disclosures.

Andrew Coffey

• Accused
  

Andrew Coffey, originally from Ireland, was incardinated into the Diocese of Sacramento in 1953. He retired in 1994 and died in 2010. In 2002, he was accused of inappropriately kissing a 10-year-old girl in 1972. He was publicly named on the diocesan list released April 30, 2019.

Malachy Conway

• Accused
  

Malachy Conway, ordained for the Diocese of Sacramento, was accused in 1997 of nudity in the presence of minors and attempted sexual touching. His faculties were withdrawn in 1997. He was later publicly named as accused when the diocese released its list on April 30, 2019.

Pablo Cortes

• Accused
  

Pablo Cortes, originally from El Salvador, worked in the Diocese of Sacramento from 1970 to 1973. An allegation received by the diocese in 1990 accused him of sexually abusing a girl under age 14 in 1970. He was publicly named on the diocese’s list released April 30, 2019.

Hector Coria Gonzales

• Guilty plea
  

Hector Coria Gonzales was ordained in January 2011 at approximately age 42. Beginning in 2013, he sexually abused a 16-year-old girl and was arrested on charges including statutory rape and oral copulation. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 90 days in jail, three years of probation, and mandatory sex offender counseling.

Diocese of Sacramento CA

John Crowley

• Accused
  

John Crowley, originally from Ireland, was ordained for the Diocese of Sacramento and later publicly named as accused on the diocesan list released May 22, 2019. An allegation reported to the diocese in 1988 accused him of sexually abusing a girl under age 14, with the alleged abuse occurring sometime between 1965 and 1985. His priestly faculties were removed in 1988 following the report.

Rodolfo Delgado

• Sued
  

Rodolfo Delgado was accused of sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy while serving in the Diocese of Sacramento. Following the allegation, he was permanently removed from ministry in 2006. The Holy See later imposed a life of prayer and penance. The allegation was pursued through civil litigation and documented in diocesan disclosures.

Thomas Dermody

• Accused
  

Thomas Dermody was accused of sexually abusing minors while serving in the Diocese of Sacramento. He retired from active ministry in 2002. His name later appeared in diocesan accounting of accused clergy connected to abuse allegations involving minors.

Michael Dermody

• Settled
  

Michael Dermody was accused of engaging in sexual relationships with three adult women he counseled. In 1992, a court awarded a $1.4 million judgment against Dermody personally, though not against the Diocese of Sacramento. In 1993, a separate $3 million judgment was entered against him, later dismissed from insurance coverage.

John W. Dowling

• Accused
  

John W. Dowling was ordained for the Diocese of Savannah–Atlanta and served in the Diocese of Sacramento from 1947 through 1981. He was dismissed following a report involving child pornography. Dowling was accused of sexually abusing boys under age 14 between 1954 and 1981. He was listed by the Archdiocese of Atlanta as credibly accused in disclosures released in 2019 and 2020.

Arthur A. Falvey

• Settled
  

Arthur A. Falvey, a Jesuit, was accused by a man who alleged Falvey repeatedly raped him over a four-year period. The Jesuits settled the claim in 2009. Falvey was the brother of Fr. Mark Falvey, who was accused of abusing at least ten children in California and was included in a separate Jesuit settlement in 2007.

William Feeser

• Accused
  

William Feeser was accused of sexually abusing a girl at Our Lady of the Assumption parish in Carmichael in incidents reported in 2010 and 2016. He was also accused of sexually abusing a boy at the same parish between 1977 and 1978. The allegations were documented in diocesan disclosures tied to historical and later reports.

Oscar Figueroa

• Accused
  

Oscar Figueroa, originally from Mexico, was ordained for the Diocese of Sacramento in 2008. His priestly faculties were removed in 2009 following an allegation of sexual misconduct involving a young adult male. The removal occurred within one year of his ordination.

James Patrick Foley

• Accused
  

James Patrick Foley was publicly named as accused on the Diocese of San Diego’s list released September 18. He was suspended in July 2010 and removed from ministry in August 2015. Foley was also listed on the Diocese of Santa Rosa’s list released January 12, 2019, the Diocese of Sacramento’s list released April 30, 2019, and the Diocese of Oakland’s 2019 disclosures.

Francisco Javier Garcia Ortiz

• Settled
  

Francisco Javier Garcia Ortiz was ordained in Mexico and incardinated into the Diocese of Sacramento in 1989. In 1995, he fled to Mexico after approximately twelve felony molestation charges were filed against him in Yolo and Colusa counties, California. His case later resolved through civil settlement.

Sidney P. Hall

• Sued
  

Sidney P. Hall was accused of sexually abusing a six-year-old girl in 1966. In 2002, he was asked to step down as pastor of St. Peter’s parish due to concerns about his health. Hall died in 2016. The allegation was pursued through civil litigation decades after the reported abuse.

John Hannan

• Accused
  

John Hannan, originally from Ireland, was ordained for the Diocese of Sacramento and retired in 2004. An allegation reported to the diocese in 2011 accused him of sexually abusing a minor female in 1977. His faculties were withdrawn following the report. Hannan died in 2017.

Jerome M. Henson

• Settled
  

In 1981, Jerome M. Henson was discovered at night in a Sacramento cemetery with a 13-year-old boy. He was sent to Reno under Bishop Francis Quinn McFarland and later transferred to the Diocese of Orange in 1984. His case was later resolved through settlement and referenced in diocesan disclosures.

David Hernandez Cota

• Accused
  

David Hernandez Cota was ordained for the Diocese of Sacramento but later excardinated. He was subsequently incardinated into the Diocese of Nuevo Casas Grandes in Mexico. His name appeared in diocesan records documenting accused clergy transfers across jurisdictions.

Francisco Hernandez-Tovar

• Accused
  

A man alleged that Francisco Hernandez-Tovar sexually molested him between 1986 and 1987 when the complainant was 13 years old. At the time, Hernandez-Tovar was assigned to Our Lady of Lourdes parish in Colusa. The allegation was later included in diocesan disclosures.

Joseph Nguyen Hoan

• Accused
  

Joseph Nguyen Hoan was publicly named by the Diocese of Sacramento in May 2019 as having credible allegations of sexual abuse against him. His name appeared on the diocesan list released as part of statewide disclosures.

William B. Hold

• Accused
  

William B. Hold was accused of sexually abusing a minor at Holy Rosary parish in Woodland in 1982. In 1998, he relocated to Central Point, Oregon. His case was later reflected in diocesan records documenting accused clergy.

Roberto L. Jaramillo

• Accused
  

Roberto L. Jaramillo was accused of sexually abusing a girl under age 14 between 1996 and 1999 and of kissing a boy in 1999. After review, the Diocese of Sacramento and law enforcement determined there was insufficient evidence to pursue charges. Jaramillo denied the allegations.

Gunter Klingenbrunner

• Accused
  

Gunter Klingenbrunner was publicly named by the Jesuits West Province as accused of sexually abusing a minor during the period from 1981 to 1984. His name appeared on the order’s published list of accused members.

Mark Kristy

• Convicted
  

Mark Kristy, trained as a psychotherapist, served in parish assignments in Tucson, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California. He was accused of sexually abusing a girl under age 14 between 2001 and 2004. He was convicted in criminal proceedings related to the abuse.

Louis Michael O’Halloran

• Accused
  

Louis Michael O’Halloran was publicly named as accused by the Diocese of Sacramento in May 2019. He had been removed from public ministry in 2004 following an allegation of sexual abuse involving a minor.

Michael Lynch

• Accused
  

Michael Lynch, originally from Ireland, was ordained for the Diocese of Sacramento and retired in 1993. He died later that same year. An allegation reported to the diocese in 2003 accused him of sexually assaulting, including raping, a girl in 1965.

Jesus Magallanes

• Accused
  

Jesus Magallanes, a deacon, was publicly named as accused of sexually abusing two females. The alleged abuse was reported to have occurred between 1975 and 1980. His name appeared in diocesan disclosures tied to deacons accused of abuse.

Robert Marsicek

• Convicted
  

Robert Marsicek was assigned to St. Pius X parish in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, in 2001. He was removed from ministry on March 28, 2013, after a teacher reported concerning behavior involving a student. In 2017, Marsicek was charged with felony child sexual assault and sentenced in December 2017 to one year in the House of Corrections.

James Finbarr Mennis

• Accused
  

James Finbarr Mennis was accused of sexually abusing a girl between 1967 and 1969. He later served as a Navy chaplain for approximately 30 years. The allegation surfaced decades later and was included in diocesan disclosures.

Vito Mistretta

• Accused
  

Msgr. Vito Mistretta was publicly named as accused by the Diocese of Sacramento on its list released April 30, 2019. He died on October 13, 2009. The allegation involved sexual abuse of a boy reported to have occurred in 1984.

James Thomas Monaghan

• Convicted
  

James Thomas Monaghan, a Jesuit priest, was convicted in 1992 of fondling a seven-year-old girl while serving as pastor of St. Ignatius parish in Sacramento. He was sentenced to five years of probation and 120 hours of community service. Monaghan died in 2004 at age 89.

Jorge Moreno

• Settled
  

Jorge Moreno, a priest originally from Mexico, was placed on leave following an allegation of sexual abuse. Criminal charges were pending when he fled to Mexico. Moreno died in 2014. His case later resolved through civil settlement.

Cornelius F. O’Connor

• Accused
  

A civil lawsuit filed in the early 2020s accused Cornelius F. O’Connor of sexually abusing an eight-year-old boy beginning in 1987 at Our Lady of the Assumption parish in Carmichael. The allegation described repeated abuse during the boy’s early childhood.

Charles A. Onorato

• Accused
  

Charles A. Onorato, a Jesuit brother, was publicly named as accused by the Jesuits West Province on December 7, 2018. He was removed from ministry in 2003 and later required to live under a safety plan restricting contact with minors.

Uriel Ojeda

• Convicted
  

Uriel Ojeda was born in the United States, raised in Mexico, and attended seminary in Oregon from 1998 through 2007. He was arrested on two felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts involving a teenage girl between 2007 and 2009. Ojeda was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison.

Z. Enrique Perez

• Accused
  

Z. Enrique Perez, originally from Colombia and a member of the Oratorian order, was publicly named as accused by the Diocese of Sacramento on April 30, 2019. He retired from ministry in 2003 and later returned to his religious order.

Vernon Petrich

• Accused
  

Vernon Petrich was publicly named as accused by the Diocese of Sacramento on its list released April 30, 2019. His inclusion reflected a credible allegation acknowledged by the diocese.

Jose Antonio Pinal

• Sued
  

Jose Antonio Pinal, also known as Costellano Jose Pinal, was accused in 1989 of sodomizing a 14-year-old boy on two occasions and fondling the boy during a trip to Mexico. In 1991, he was incardinated into the Diocese of Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he served for decades following the allegations.

Mario Porras Blanco

• Settled
  

Mario Porras Blanco, originally from Costa Rica, was removed from ministry in the Diocese of Sacramento in 1973. At least 17 men later accused him of sexual abuse. A civil trial was scheduled for July 2005, but 16 of the cases settled shortly before trial.

William Storan

• Accused
  

William Storan, originally from Ireland, was ordained for the Diocese of Sacramento and publicly named as accused on the diocesan list released April 30, 2019. An allegation reported to the diocese in 2001 accused him of sexually abusing a woman between ages 18 and 25 in 1974. His faculties were withdrawn in 2001.

Diocese of Sacramento CA

Simon Twomey

• Accused
  

From Ireland, Simon Twomey was ordained for the Diocese of Sacramento in 1970 after studies at All Hallows College. He served in several parishes, including Sacred Heart in Sacramento and Holy Rosary in Woodland, and also worked as a prison chaplain. In 2018 the diocese received an allegation that he sexually abused a girl in 1975–1976. Twomey retired in 2009 and is listed as retired without priestly faculties.

Jose Luis Urbina

• Convicted
  

Born in Mexico, Jose Luis Urbina was ordained for the Diocese of Sacramento in 1979 and assigned to parishes in Yuba City, Marysville, and Sacramento. He sexually abused an altar boy over several years beginning when the child was eight. Urbina pleaded guilty in 1989 to committing lewd acts with a child under 14, then fled to Mexico before sentencing. He was later found working as a priest there, was laicized in 2008, and remains a fugitive.

Murrough Wallace

• Sued
  

Murrough Wallace, originally from Ireland, was ordained in 1960 and served in the Diocese of Sacramento, including at Holy Angels in Yuba City and as director of Camp Pendola. A lawsuit alleges that he sexually abused a 10-year-old boy at Holy Angels in 1965. Additional accusations involve abuse of teenage boys in the 1980s while he oversaw youth programs. Wallace retired in 2003. After further allegations, his faculties were withdrawn, and he is listed as retired without faculties.

Michael G. Walsh

• Settled
  

Michael G. Walsh, born in Ireland and ordained for the Diocese of Sacramento in 1971, worked in several parishes across the diocese. A lawsuit filed in 1985 alleged he sexually abused a boy in the 1970s; the diocese later settled that case. Another survivor broke a confidentiality agreement in 2002 to speak publicly about abuse by Walsh. He was placed on leave in April 2002, retired in 2006 with his faculties withdrawn, and was later allowed only limited non-sacramental ministry before his death.

John “Casper” Watts

• Accused
  

John “Casper” Watts, a Passionist priest, worked at Christ the King Retreat Center in Citrus Heights while serving in the Diocese of Sacramento. Multiple allegations received in the 1990s accused him of sexually abusing boys under 14 in the early 1970s. The Diocese of Sacramento included him on its list of credibly accused clergy in 2019. Watts had already left the diocese and returned to his religious order, and he no longer has faculties in Sacramento.

Diocese of San Bernardino CA

Saul Ayala

• Settled
  

Ordained in 1971, Saul Ayala served at parishes in Corona, Barstow, San Bernardino, and at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mecca. In June 2002 he was placed on administrative leave after an allegation of sexual harassment and misconduct involving a minor. Three months later two sisters filed a civil suit alleging Ayala sexually abused them in 1988–1989, when they were ages 7 and 9 and he babysat them. He was removed from ministry and permanently banned from serving in the diocese.

Roberto A. Barco

• Accused
  

Roberto A. Barco, an Argentinian priest ordained in 1983, arrived in California in 2009 and was assigned to San Salvador parish in Colton, then St. Louis in Cathedral City. In April 2016 he was accused of sexually abusing a child in 2009–2010 while at San Salvador. A police report was filed. Barco was removed from ministry in May 2016 and barred from serving in the Diocese of San Bernardino. He subsequently returned to his home diocese in Argentina and was added to credibly accused lists in both San Bernardino and Los Angeles.

Edward Lawrence Ball

• Convicted
  

Edward Lawrence Ball, a Missionaries of the Sacred Heart priest ordained in 1966, served in San Bernardino County parishes. In 1992 he became a registered sex offender after convictions related to the abuse of two altar boys. The boys’ families later obtained civil settlements in 1994. In 1999 Ball was arrested in Illinois and charged with dozens of counts tied to alleged abuse of additional boys and girls in California during the 1980s. He was laicized in 2002, and subsequent civil cases led to large settlements before his death.

Joseph C. Bell

• Accused
  

Benedictine priest Joseph C. Bell was ordained in 1961 and served in several U.S. dioceses. In the Diocese of San Bernardino he was assigned to St. Peter and St. Paul in Alta Loma from 1985 to 1986. The diocese has stated it first learned in 1985 of allegations that Bell abused minors in the 1960s and 1970s. Reported abuse involved children in Indiana, Kentucky, and New York. Bell died in January 1987 and was later listed as credibly accused.

Gustavo Benson

• Convicted
  

Gustavo Benson Sotomayor, ordained in 1972, served in the dioceses of San Diego and San Bernardino, including assignments at Our Lady of Guadalupe in San Bernardino, San Salvador in Colton, and St. Joseph in Barstow. He was accused of sexually abusing multiple boys in the 1970s and 1980s. Benson pleaded no contest to molesting a boy in Barstow, then was transferred in 1987 to the Diocese of Tijuana. He continued working as a priest at San Judas Tadeo Church in Ensenada and later was believed to be living in Arizona.

Michael Bucaro

• Settled
  

Ordained in 1980, Michael Bucaro served at St. Matthew’s Catholic Church in Corona and later in prison ministry at the California Institute for Men in Chino. In 2004 a man filed a lawsuit alleging Bucaro sexually abused him from about 1983 to 1989, beginning when the boy was five, in Corona and San Diego. Bucaro responded with a slander countersuit in 2005. The abuse case settled in 2008 as part of a broader agreement, and Bucaro was permanently banned from ministry in the Diocese of San Bernardino and retired without faculties.

Alejandro Jose Castillo

• Guilty plea
  

Alejandro Jose Castillo, from Mexico City, was ordained in 1981 for the Society of the Divine Word and later moved to the Diocese of San Bernardino. While pastor at Our Lady of Guadalupe in Ontario, he was accused in 2010 of sexually abusing two adolescent brothers around 2008. The diocese removed him from ministry and notified law enforcement. A diocesan review board found the allegations credible, and parishioners were informed in a public letter. Castillo was arrested in October 2010 and later entered a guilty plea in connection with the abuse.

Peter Covas

• Sued
  

Peter Covas was ordained in 1957 for the Congregation of the Holy Spirit and later incardinated into the Diocese of San Bernardino. He served in several U.S. dioceses and became the first financial director of San Bernardino. Covas resigned that post in 1983 after loaning $225,000 in diocesan funds to a convicted fraudster. He was twice arrested in the 1980s for public sexual misconduct. In 2002 he left his parish following allegations of sexual misconduct with minors, and civil lawsuits were filed naming him. Covas died in 2004.

Owen da Silva

• Sued
  

Franciscan priest Owen da Silva, ordained in 1936, worked at St. Anthony’s Seminary in Santa Barbara and served in multiple locations nationwide. A man later alleged that da Silva sexually abused him as an altar boy at St. Anthony’s Seminary in 1936–1937. The accusation appeared in a 2004 amended civil complaint that listed numerous alleged perpetrators in Santa Barbara. Da Silva had died in 1967 by the time the lawsuit was filed. He is now listed on several databases of accused Franciscan clergy.

Daniel De Dominicis

• Accused
  

Spiritan priest Daniel De Dominicis served at Notre Dame High School in Riverside from 1958 to 1968 and at Our Lady of the Valley in Hemet from 1976 to 1978. The Diocese of San Bernardino later recorded allegations of child sexual abuse occurring between 1975 and 1985. The diocese noted awareness of the accusation in August 1994 and reported it to law enforcement in 2002. De Dominicis left the diocese in 1978 and is deceased.

Robert J. Donat

• Accused
  

Robert J. Donat worked in Southern California beginning in the late 1960s, including Aquinas High School and several San Bernardino parishes. He became pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes in Montclair in 1993 and remained there until 2006. An allegation of abuse from 1984 surfaced in 2010 and was reported to police the same year. Donat was retired, stripped of faculties in 2011, and assigned a Vatican penalty of a life of prayer and penance.

Jesus A. Dominguez

• Guilty plea
  

Jesus A. “Jesse” Dominguez, a priest from Chihuahua, Mexico, served in the Diocese of San Bernardino. He was charged with sexually abusing two boys in 1988 and 1989, then fled to Mexico before arrest. At least six men later filed civil suits alleging abuse and mishandling by church officials. Dominguez’s case centers on allegations against minors in the late 1980s, criminal charges in California, flight from prosecution, and later civil settlements.

Kevin Dunne

• Accused
  

Franciscan priest Kevin Dunne was one of several religious accused in 1993 of sexually abusing students at St. Anthony Seminary in Santa Barbara. After the allegations, he lived with his order at St. Mary’s Basilica in Phoenix, Arizona. There he served as treasurer and did housework, and his community restricted him from ministry involving children. His name appears in the group of seminary staff tied to systemic abuse claims from that period.

Clifton Raymond Etienne

• Sued
  

Divine Word Missionary priest Clifton Raymond Etienne was accused of sexual abuse connected to Divine Word Seminary. He later served in the San Diego region and died in 1998. Decades after his death, lawsuits named him as a perpetrator of child sexual assault. The Diocese of San Diego included his name on its September 2018 list of priests with credible allegations, identifying him in relation to seminary and Southern California assignments.

Joseph Fertal

• Settled
  

Divine Word Missionary priest Joseph Fertal came under suspicion of abuse in 1989 and was moved to his order’s seminary in Riverside, California, then returned to parish work. In 1995 he was accused of molesting a 16 year old boy from a catechism class. A criminal investigation was opened but later dropped for insufficient evidence. The allegation later became part of civil litigation that ended in settlement, and Fertal was removed from ministry in the diocese.

Rodrigo Marciel Garcia

• Accused
  

Rodrigo Marciel Garcia served in the Diocese of San Bernardino and was later listed among clergy with credible allegations of sexual abuse of minors. His name was added to the diocesan list of accused priests in May 2021. The entry associates him with diocesan assignments and notes that the diocesan review process found allegations against him credible, leading to his inclusion on the official disclosure of accused clergy.

Anthony Martinez Garduno

• Convicted
  

Anthony Martinez Garduno was accused of misconduct during premarital counseling, including asking an adult man to undress. Separate criminal cases later led to his conviction on drug and weapons charges and a two year prison sentence. Church authorities removed him from the clerical state. His record combines allegations of sexual boundary violations in pastoral settings with unrelated criminal convictions that resulted in incarceration and permanent exclusion from priestly ministry.

Rudi Gil

• Accused
  

Rudi Gil arrived in the Diocese of San Bernardino from Canada in 1987 and served in parish ministry. In 1993 he was accused of sexual misconduct and sent for treatment at a Servants of the Paraclete facility for what records describe as “sexual identity issues.” After further review, he was removed from the priesthood in 2002. His timeline follows a pattern of transfer, allegation, residential treatment, and eventual laicization.

Maximiliano Gomez Macouzet

• Settled
  

Monsignor Maximiliano Gomez Macouzet, originally from Mexico, was ordained in 1946 and completed graduate studies in Rome in 1948. He later served in California and left the San Bernardino area in 1966. That same year he was sued for assault and battery and a court awarded him 35,000 dollars in the resulting case. His file is cited in connection with mid 1960s civil litigation and early movement of clergy between Mexico and U.S. dioceses.

J. Ernest Hayes

• Accused
  

Priest J. Ernest Hayes served in the region that later became the Diocese of San Bernardino. The diocese’s 2018 disclosure states that officials became aware in June 1987 of alleged child sexual abuse by Hayes, with incidents dated 1978 to 1983 and further allegations tied to 1981 and 1987. Hayes died in 1990. His name appears on the diocesan list of clergy credibly accused of abuse based on those reports and internal reviews.

Joseph Jablonski

• Accused
  

Missionaries of the Sacred Heart priest Joseph Jablonski served as a visiting priest at St. Joseph in Upland from 1997 to 2000, without diocesan faculties. The Diocese of San Bernardino records an incident dated 2014, notes that it learned of the allegation in May 2014, and reported it to police the same month. He was permanently barred from ministry in the diocese. Later he was also listed on the accused priest lists of the Rockford and Joliet dioceses in Illinois.

Dennis Raymond Jost

• Convicted
  

Dennis Raymond Jost grew up in the Diocese of San Angelo, Texas, and later trained for the permanent diaconate in California before being removed from the program. In 1992 he was convicted of child abuse. Afterward he worked in parish roles in the Diocese of Dallas until his criminal history became known and he was removed. His case illustrates gaps in screening that allowed a previously convicted offender to be employed in church ministry in another diocese.

Timothy F. Keppel

• Accused
  

Holy Cross priest Timothy F. Keppel served at St. Joseph in Fontana from 1977 to 1980, at Resurrection in Fontana from 1984 to 1987, and at Our Lady of the Lake in Lake Arrowhead from 1997 to 2009. His religious order received an allegation that he sexually abused a teenage boy in San Bernardino in the late 1970s. Church authorities later imposed a Vatican penalty in 2012, assigning him to a restricted life of prayer and penance.

Robert Kurilec

• Accused
  

Sacred Heart priest Robert Kurilec taught at Notre Dame High School in Riverside from 1980 to 1983, then became a U.S. Navy chaplain in 1984. Allegations later surfaced that he abused minors in Indiana, Illinois, and Maryland in 1970 and 1972. The Diocese of San Bernardino notes learning of the accusations in 1987, reporting them to the Navy in 1988, and to police in 2002. Kurilec was publicly listed as credibly accused in 2018 and died in Florida in September 2019.

Peter H. Luque

• Sued
  

Monsignor Peter H. Luque held several leadership roles, including Vicar for Hispanic Affairs, in parishes across San Bernardino and San Diego counties. In April 2002 he was placed on leave following old allegations of sexual abuse. Prosecutors charged him in April 2003, but the case was dismissed after a United States Supreme Court ruling restricted prosecution of older sex crimes. Civil suits alleging abuse continued, and Luque remained out of active ministry.

Peter McCormick

• Accused
  

Sacred Heart priest Peter McCormick served at Sacred Heart in Palm Desert from 1984 until 2000. An accusation that he sexually abused a boy in 1990 came to the Diocese of San Bernardino’s attention on February 7, 2000. McCormick was removed from ministry two days later and the case was reported to law enforcement in 2002. He was permanently barred from ministry in the diocese following internal review.

Howard Melzer

• Accused
  

Priest Howard Melzer served in the Diocese of San Bernardino, including at St. Matthew’s in Corona during the late 1970s and early 1980s. An allegation of child sexual abuse, dating from 1976 to 1980, was reported to the diocese on October 17, 1993 and forwarded to his religious order. On October 9, 2018 the diocese publicly identified Melzer on its list of clergy with credible allegations of abuse involving minors.

Paul Nguyen

• Accused
  

Paul Nguyen was ordained in Oslo, Norway, undertook further formation in Rome, and later served in San Bernardino. In January 1993 he was accused of sexual misconduct with a minor. He resigned as parish pastor in September 1993 and was placed on leave while a police investigation proceeded and was later closed. Subsequent assignments placed him in Nordic dioceses before later appearances in the United States. The Diocese of San Bernardino publicly named him to its accused priest list in 2018.

Joseph R. Nunez

• Sued
  

Monsignor Joseph R. Nunez was incardinated in 1937 and served for decades in California parishes, including a San Bernardino assignment. A lawsuit filed in December 2003 accused him of molesting a boy in 1956 and 1957, when the child was about 12, at a Catholic school in San Bernardino. Nunez died in 1968. His name appears in later disclosures and legal records as an alleged abuser identified long after his death.

Louis G. Perreault

• Sued
  

Priest Louis G. Perreault worked in several states. He taught high school in Phoenix, Arizona from 1963 to 1971, then served as a parish priest and pastor in Lake Charles, Louisiana. From 1986 to 2000 he was pastor in Hemet, California, within the Diocese of San Bernardino, then worked as a hospital chaplain in Henderson, Nevada from 2000 to 2008. In November 2018 San Bernardino publicly identified him on its list of clergy with credible allegations of abuse.

Esteban Trujillo

• Accused
  

Father Esteban Trujillo was a visiting priest from Mexico serving in the Diocese of San Bernardino. In 2002 he was removed from ministry in the diocese following an allegation of past sexual misconduct. His religious order investigated and concluded that the allegation was unsubstantiated, but diocesan officials still barred him from local ministry. The diocesan list records him as a visiting priest who was removed from service after the accusation.

Bernard Waltos

• Accused
  

Priest Bernard Waltos served at Queen of Angels parish in Riverside from 1981 to 1991. Allegations later stated that he sexually abused a minor between 1984 and 1990. On October 9, 2018, the Diocese of San Bernardino publicly listed Waltos among clergy with credible allegations of child sexual abuse. His entry identifies the abuse window as overlapping with his Riverside parish assignment and records his status as no longer in ministry in the diocese.

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Herman Francis Flynn

• Accused
  

Canadian born priest Herman Francis Flynn served in several U.S. dioceses, including assignments in South Carolina, Michigan, Virginia, and in the Diocese of San Diego from 1963 to 1977. He died on April 13, 1977. On March 30, 2007 San Diego released a list of priests with credible allegations that included Flynn. His personnel file was among those publicly disclosed on October 25, 2010 as part of court ordered document releases.

Lawrence Kurlandski

• Sued
  

Resurrectionist priest Lawrence Kurlandski, ordained in 1942, served at St. Joseph’s in Fontana, California in the late 1940s. A woman filed a lawsuit in 2003 alleging he molested her at that parish between 1947 and 1949. Kurlandski died on January 5, 1990. In October 2021 the Resurrectionists’ USA Province released a list of credibly accused priests that included his name, and he was also listed in the Illinois Attorney General’s 2023 clergy abuse report.

John M. Beatty

• Accused
  

Priest John M. Beatty served in parish work, high school teaching, and hospital chaplaincy during his career. He was first publicly identified on the Diocese of San Diego’s September 14, 2018 list of clergy with credible allegations. Later, the dioceses of Joliet and Rockford in Illinois added him to their own lists, and he appears in the Illinois Attorney General’s May 2023 report. His name is associated with cross state assignments and multiple diocesan disclosures.

James T. Booth

• Sued
  

James T. Booth was sued in February 2003 by a woman who alleged he molested her as a child. A second woman filed a lawsuit in December 2003 with similar accusations. Booth denied the allegations. The suits form the core of the known public record regarding his alleged abuse of minors. His name appears among the clergy accused of sexual abuse in litigation connected to the Diocese of San Diego’s broader abuse settlements.

Brother Thomas

• Sued
  

A religious identified only as “Brother Thomas” appears in San Diego area lists of accused clergy. He is described as a religious brother, not a diocesan priest, and has been sued for alleged sexual abuse of minors. Available entries focus on the existence of civil claims and his status as an accused religious brother, with few biographical details beyond his title and the lawsuits filed under that name.

Robert Buchanan

• Sued
  

Priest Robert Buchanan was accused in a 2003 lawsuit of sexually abusing a girl in 1972. The case placed his alleged misconduct in a parish setting within the Diocese of San Diego. Buchanan retired in 2006 and was described as no longer in ministry after that date. His name appears in lists of clergy accused in connection with the diocese’s abuse settlements and related document disclosures.

Arthur Carrillo

• Accused
  

Priest Arthur Carrillo was removed from public ministry after an allegation that he sexually abused a female minor in the early 1970s. The accusation involved a parish context and led diocesan officials to pull him from active assignments while an investigation took place. He is listed among clergy in the Diocese of San Diego who were removed from ministry following credible accusations of child sexual abuse.

Jose Chavarin

• Accused
  

Priest Jose Chavarin served in the Diocese of San Diego and was accused of sexually abusing three boys in the 1980s. After the allegations surfaced, he left the United States and returned to Mexico. His case is noted for multiple alleged victims, a defined period of abuse in San Diego, and his departure from the country following the emergence of reports, which hindered criminal prosecution.

James Creaton

• Settled
  

Priest James Creaton was among the San Diego clergy whose personnel files were released in 2010 as part of settlements involving priests accused of child sexual abuse. His name appears in connection with civil claims that led to financial settlements. The central public details concern his inclusion in the group of accused priests whose records were disclosed during post bankruptcy transparency efforts by the Diocese of San Diego.

Edito D’Amora

• Settled
  

Edito D’Amora served as a Navy chaplain when he was accused of sexually abusing a 10 year old girl in 1991. A civil lawsuit followed and was settled out of court. His case is cited among instances of child sexual abuse involving military chaplains that were handled though civil litigation and later incorporated into diocesan lists of accused clergy associated with the Diocese of San Diego.

John Joseph Daly

• Sued
  

Priest John Joseph Daly was accused of sexually abusing a 16 year old boy at St. Joseph’s in Holtville in 1977. The criminal case was dropped after the local bishop met with the district attorney, and Daly was transferred out of the area. In 2002 the victim filed a civil lawsuit. Daly’s record is marked by the alleged 1977 abuse, the abandoned criminal prosecution, his reassignment, and the later civil suit decades after the incident.

Nelson C. Damasco

• Accused
  

Nelson C. Damasco, a priest of the Diocese of Nueva Segovia in the Philippines, served as associate pastor in the Diocese of San Diego from September 1, 1980 to January 1, 1982. He was later listed by the diocese on March 30, 2007 as credibly accused of child sexual abuse and is believed to have died in 1988. After leaving San Diego, he served as an Army Reserve chaplain, reportedly stationed at Fort Hood in Texas.

Luis Eugene de Francisco

• Arrested
  

Luis Eugene (Luis Eugenio) de Francisco, a priest from the Diocese of Cali in Colombia, worked in the Diocese of San Diego from 1962 to 1963. In August 1963 he was arrested and accused of sexually abusing children of migrant workers. He was removed from ministry in the diocese and ordered to leave the United States, returning to Colombia. He later also worked in Texas and Florida and is believed to have died in the early 1990s.

Donald F. Doxie

• Sued
  

Monsignor Donald F. Doxie was ordained in 1952 and served as secretary to Bishop Charles Buddy, navy chaplain, and vice chancellor of the San Diego diocese. A man alleged that Doxie sexually abused him from 1969 to 1972, beginning when he was about age 15. The allegation surfaced in a 2003 lawsuit. Doxie had held high administrative roles in the diocese and died on November 16, 1976.

I. Brent Eagen

• Sued
  

Monsignor I. Brent Eagen was ordained in 1956 and later became chancellor of the Diocese of San Diego. In a 2003 lawsuit, a woman alleged that Eagen raped her in 1972 after befriending her at Nazareth House orphanage, where she had grown up. The alleged assault occurred while he was a parish priest at a nearby mission. Eagen died in 1997, and his personnel file was released by the diocese in 2010.

Michael French

• Settled
  

Michael French, ordained in 1964 and originally a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, came to San Diego in the 1970s, working in counseling and family ministry roles. In 2003 the diocese received a report that he sexually abused a boy in 1980. The victim later received a financial settlement. French’s assignments included Catholic Community Services and Worldwide Marriage Encounter. He died in 1995 and was named on the San Diego diocesan list in 2018.

Rudolph Galindo

• Settled
  

Monsignor Rudolph Galindo, ordained in 1954, was accused of sexual misconduct with a Vietnamese altar boy, which led to a civil suit and a $75,000 settlement in 1985. He denied the allegation but was removed from duty before being reassigned, then retired in 1986. In 2002 he was sued by additional accusers and admitted to abusing three minors. He was permanently removed from ministry and listed by the diocese among credibly accused priests.

James A. Ganahl

• Settled
  

Father James A. Ganahl, ordained in 1956, served in both the San Diego and San Bernardino dioceses. His personnel file records accusations that he sexually abused four girls between 1961 and 1963, with the family reporting the abuse to the San Bernardino diocese in 1999. The case was settled, and in 2002 San Diego reported the allegations to police. Ganahl retired in 1987, had his priestly privileges removed in 1998, and died in February 2010.

Paul Gill

• Sued
  

Father Paul Gill, ordained in 1966, was sued in 2002 by a man who alleged Gill molested him as a 14-year-old boy in 1977, both in the rectory and on a trip to New Hampshire. Gill had retired in 1998 and was barred from public ministry when the diocese learned of the claim. Another man filed suit in 2003 alleging abuse in 1975. Gill’s name appears on the San Diego diocesan list of accused priests.

Michael K. Higgins

• Accused
  

Father Michael K. Higgins, ordained in 1964, was removed from active ministry in 1982 after being accused of soliciting sex from a boy in a confessional. Higgins denied the allegation and later sued the bishop and others, asserting he was falsely accused and that his removal was wrongful. He appealed to the Vatican, contending he remained a priest in retirement, while the diocese maintained that his priestly faculties were permanently withdrawn.

Gary Michael Holtey

• Convicted
  

Father Gary Michael Holtey, ordained in 1984, served as pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Church in Loma Portal, San Diego. In 2004, during an international child-pornography investigation, police and federal agents searched his parish offices and seized computers containing hundreds of images of boys. Holtey pleaded guilty in February 2005 to ten misdemeanor counts of possessing child pornography and received three years’ probation. He was permanently barred from ministry and later appeared in Maryland’s sex-offender registry.

Richard L. Houck

• Settled
  

Father Richard L. Houck, ordained in 1954, served in parishes in the Diocese of San Diego and later became monsignor. He was publicly named as having been accused of molesting a 10-year-old altar boy in 1968; the boy served at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Calexico. The case was resolved in a settlement. Houck’s name appears on lists of credibly accused California priests, and he is reported as deceased.

Patrick J. Hughes

• Convicted
  

Father Patrick J. Hughes, a priest from Ireland, was convicted of sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy in 1974 and later another victim between 1979 and 1983. After serving in Ireland, he transferred to the Diocese of San Diego in 1988 with a recommendation from his Irish bishop. His history of abuse came to light years later, and he was included among convicted clergy offenders. His exact later whereabouts were unclear for some time after his conviction.

Patrick J. Kearney

• Accused
  

Father Patrick J. Kearney, ordained in 1953 and originally from Ireland, attended seminary in El Cajon and spent his career in the Diocese of San Diego. He retired in 1993 and died shortly thereafter. In 2019 his name was released by the diocese as a priest with a credible accusation of sexual abuse. His personnel file had been released earlier as part of the 2007 settlement, documenting his assignments and the later allegation.

John Charles Keith

• Settled
  

Father John Charles Keith, ordained a Jesuit in 1956 and incardinated into the San Diego diocese in 1961, was sued by a man who alleged Keith molested him as a 12-year-old boy in 1985. That case settled in 1999 for $95,000. Another lawsuit was filed in 2008 and settled in 2010. Keith denied the abuse but acknowledged being a recovering alcoholic. He appears on the San Diego diocesan list of credibly accused priests.

Robert S. Koerner

• Settled
  

Father Robert S. Koerner served in Texas, Montana, and California, including a 27-year tenure at St. Patrick’s Parish in Calipatria. He was named in at least three lawsuits and four additional settlements alleging that he molested minors during those years. After accusations surfaced, Koerner was removed from ministry and ultimately retired. His name appears in multiple compilations of credibly accused priests associated with the Diocese of San Diego.

Adalbert J. Kowalczyk

• Sued
  

Father Adalbert (Albert) J. Kowalczyk, a Resurrectionist priest ordained in 1938, worked in Chicago before serving in California. A woman sued in 1993, alleging he sexually abused her as a girl in 1993 at St. Joseph’s in Fontana; the case was later dismissed on statute-of-limitations grounds. Kowalczyk died in 1972. He was later included on the San Diego Diocese list of priests with credible allegations and on Resurrectionist order lists of accused clergy.

William Armstrong Kraft

• Settled
  

Monsignor William Armstrong Kraft was accused of sexually abusing multiple boys and at least one girl during his years in ministry in the Diocese of San Diego. Several civil suits were filed against him, one of which settled in 2001 for $250,000. His name appears in large statewide compilations of accused priests and in diocesan personnel releases. Kraft is reported as deceased, with allegations spanning several decades of his priesthood.

George Lally

• Sued
  

Father George Lally, ordained in 1968 for the Diocese of Providence, transferred to the Diocese of San Diego around 1970. A man filed suit in August 2002, alleging Lally sexually abused him repeatedly in 1971 at St. Mary’s in El Centro when he was 9 years old. After the boy reported the abuse to the pastor, Lally was transferred and the diocese later agreed to pay the victim’s college expenses. Lally disappeared from Catholic directories by the mid-1970s.

Justin Langille

• Accused
  

Father Justin Langille, ordained in 1980, was accused of sexually inappropriate conduct with a teenage girl in the early 1990s. The diocese first received the allegation in the mid-1990s and revisited it in 2002, when Langille reportedly passed a polygraph test. He spent years unassigned while working for a contemplative ministry in New Jersey, then returned to parish work in San Diego. In October 2018, after new information emerged, the diocesan review board removed him from ministry.

Michael M. MacCourt

• Accused
  

Father Michael M. MacCourt, a Columban priest ordained in Northern Ireland, was assigned to U.S. parishes beginning in the 1920s, including St. Columban’s in Nebraska and New York. He later served in the Diocese of San Diego. Decades after his death in 1977, he was named on lists of credibly accused clergy. The entries connect him to allegations of sexual misconduct while working in U.S. parishes, leading to his inclusion in California compilations of accused priests.

Michael Victor Marron

• Accused
  

Father Michael Victor Marron, ordained in 1930 for the Diocese of Clogher in Ireland, served at several parishes in the Diocese of San Diego between 1961 and 1963. A 1963 letter in his personnel file described him as “overly familiar” with children, particularly girls, and he left the diocese at the bishop’s request that year. In 2007 his name appeared on the San Diego list of priests with credible allegations. He later died, and his file was publicly released in 2010.

Peter Joseph Marron

• Sued
  

Father Peter Joseph Marron, an Augustinian born in Ireland, immigrated to the United States at age 16 and was ordained in 1936. He served as a Navy chaplain from 1945 to 1969 and later held parish assignments. In 2020 two women filed lawsuits alleging that Marron molested them between 1976 and 1978. He had already appeared on the Diocese of San Diego’s 2007 list of priests with credible accusations. Marron died in 1998 and was the brother of Michael V. Marron.

Ramon Marrufo

• Settled
  

Father Ramon Marrufo, ordained in 1976, had assignments across San Diego County and served as pastor of St. Peter the Apostle Parish in Fallbrook from about 2010 until his retirement in 2019. A 2021 lawsuit alleges he sexually abused a boy over several years in the 1970s, beginning when the child was in second grade in San Bernardino County. Another accuser previously received compensation through an independent diocesan program. Marrufo died of cancer on November 15, 2023, at age 72.

Malachy M. McGinn

• Accused
  

Father Malachy M. McGinn, originally a member of the Salesian order in Ireland, was ordained in 1961 for the San Diego diocese. He served in both San Diego and San Bernardino. Personnel records show allegations of a sexual relationship with a 21-year-old woman at Our Lady of Solitude in Palm Springs in 1968 and additional abuse reports from 1969 and 1981. He appeared on San Diego’s 2007 list and San Bernardino’s 2018 list of credibly accused clergy. McGinn died in 1997.

Patrick Carl McNamara

• Accused
  

Father Patrick Carl McNamara, ordained in 1980 and holder of a law degree, served in Chula Vista and other San Diego parishes. He took a sabbatical in 1993, then a leave of absence in 1994, and left the priesthood in March 1995 before later marrying. In 2007 the Diocese of San Diego listed him among priests with credible allegations of sexual abuse and subsequently released his personnel file in 2010.

Mark A. Medaer

• Accused
  

Monsignor Mark (Marc) A. Medaer, ordained in 1950 and formerly of the Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, transferred to the Diocese of San Diego in 1959 after assignments in Virginia, Texas, and Pennsylvania. In 2002 an allegation surfaced that he sexually abused a boy in 1982 while pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Calexico; the diocese paid for the man’s counseling. Medaer died in 1993 and was later named on the San Diego diocesan list of credibly accused priests.

Ricardo Mejia

• Accused
  

Father Ricardo Mejia, ordained in 1977, served multiple parish assignments in the Diocese of San Diego. He took a health sabbatical in May 1998 and retired in February 2006. In March 2007 the diocese listed him among priests with credible allegations of sexual abuse and described him as “removed.” His personnel file, released in 2010, documented his service history and the diocese’s handling of the allegation.

Thomas Moloney

• Sued
  

Monsignor Thomas Moloney, a native of Ireland ordained in 1943, served first in England, then in the Diocese of San Diego. A man filed suit in 2003 alleging Moloney molested him in 1963 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Riverside, then part of the San Diego diocese. A 2002 letter from a woman in his file also accused him of sexual harassment at Our Lady of Grace in El Cajon in the 1950s. Moloney died in 1986.

Paolino Montagna

• Accused
  

Father Paolino Montagna worked in the Diocese of San Diego between 1972 and 1975. He was later accused of molesting two girls during his time in the diocese. In 2018 San Diego named him on its list of priests with credible allegations of sexual abuse. Reports describe him as believed to be deceased, though details of his later life and death are not widely documented.

Ephren Cirilio Neri

• Sued
  

Father Ephren (Ephrem) Cirilio Neri, ordained in 1945 for the Archdiocese of Yucatán in Mexico, was assigned to Christ the King Parish in San Bernardino when that area still belonged to the Diocese of San Diego. A lawsuit filed in 2019 alleges that Neri raped a 7-year-old girl in 1958 and that he was also accused that year of fathering a child. He later worked in Ohio and Fresno, was incardinated into the Fresno diocese in 1965, and died in 1982.

Robert Daniel Nikliborc

• Accused
  

Ordained in 1955, Robert Daniel Nikliborc served in the Diocese of San Diego, including at Boys Town of the Desert in Banning, St. John in Encinitas, and St. Anne in San Diego. He was accused in a 2005 lawsuit of sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy at Boys Town between 1969 and 1972. He had earlier been convicted of federal tax evasion in 1968, was reassigned to St. Anne’s in 1971, retired in 2001, and died in 2006.

Michael O’Connor

• Settled
  

Born in Ireland, Michael O’Connor was ordained in 1931 for the Diocese of Los Angeles and San Diego. He worked as a parish priest and military chaplain. His name later appeared among clergy accused of sexually abusing minors, and his personnel file was released by the Diocese of San Diego in 2010 as part of a settlement with survivors. O’Connor died on 31 October 1965 while still a priest of the diocese.

Michael Raymond O’Donohoe

• Settled
  

Irish-born Michael Raymond O’Donohoe was ordained around 1938–1939 for the Diocese of San Diego and served at several parishes in Southern California. A 1961 letter from his bishop referred to “serious complaints” and “grave scandal” tied to his conduct in cities including Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Twentynine Palms, San Diego, and Chicago. He left the Diocese of San Diego on 10 April 1961, was assigned to parish work in Tucson, Arizona, and died on 9 August 1967.

Patrick J. O’Keeffe

• Settled
  

Monsignor Patrick J. O’Keeffe, from Ireland, was ordained in 1959 and served as a pastor in the Diocese of San Diego and later in San Bernardino. An allegation surfaced in 1989, and in 2002 he was criminally charged with molesting a 17-year-old girl in Highland. Multiple lawsuits filed in 2003 accused him of abusing several girls in the 1970s. O’Keeffe left active ministry in 1994, “retired” in 1999, fled to Ireland after charges, and was later included on diocesan lists of credibly accused priests.

Emmanuel O. Omemaga

• Charged
  

Emmanuel O. Omemaga, a priest from the Philippines ordained in 1983, arrived in the Diocese of San Diego in 1990. In 1993 he was charged with 40 criminal counts involving the sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl. Reports indicate he admitted misconduct to diocesan officials, surrendered his priestly faculties in October 1993, and returned to the Philippines. A civil lawsuit followed, and he remained a fugitive from the criminal charges years later while listed among credibly accused clergy.

Daniel Polizzi

• Accused
  

Ordained for the Diocese of Santa Rosa in 1969, Daniel Polizzi transferred to the Diocese of San Diego on 30 May 1970. In 1996 a hospitalized 16-year-old boy who was ventilator-dependent reported that a priest had fondled him, leading to an investigation and Polizzi’s suspension. The report was made to child protective services, the diocese, and police, though no criminal charges were filed. In 1997 he was permanently impeded from priestly ministry, later laicized in 2008, and died in 2003 in Haiti.

Edward Anthony Rodrigue

• Convicted
  

Edward Anthony “Tony” Rodrigue served in numerous parishes in the Diocese of San Diego and later in the Diocese of San Bernardino. In 1979 he was convicted of sexually assaulting a boy in Ontario, California, and received probation after years of parish reassignments following complaints from parents. He was removed from ministry in 1983 and laicized in 1992. In 1998 Rodrigue received a 10-year prison sentence for molesting a developmentally disabled boy, having admitted to abusing four or five boys a year during his 22-year priesthood. He died in 2009.

Franz Robier

• Settled
  

A native of Austria, Franz Robier was ordained in 1936 and later moved from Brazil to California. He became a priest of the Diocese of San Diego in the 1950s, serving at Holy Spirit Parish in San Diego and other locations. Robier had previously undergone treatment for pedophilia at a monastery in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. In 2003 multiple civil suits alleged he abused and sometimes raped as many as two dozen girls, including four sisters, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His cases were resolved in the 2007 diocesan settlement, and he had died in 1994.

Joseph Rossell

• Sued
  

Spanish-born Joseph Rossell belonged to the Sons of the Holy Family and was ordained in 1930. He came to the United States in 1947 and arrived in the Diocese of San Diego in 1953, later being incardinated in 1954. After several short assignments he served at St. Anthony Parish in National City from 1956 to 1972, when he retired to Spain. Multiple lawsuits accuse him of molesting girls in catechism classes and other parish settings. Rossell died in 1982 and appears on the diocese’s 2007 list of priests with credible allegations.

David Roll

• Accused
  

David Roll was ordained in 1970 and served in several parishes in the Diocese of San Diego. Allegations of child sexual abuse appear in notes spanning incidents in 1976, the mid-1980s, the early 1990s, and 2002. His faculties were withdrawn in June 1986, and he was placed on medical leave, receiving treatment at St. Luke Institute and the Servants of the Paraclete. Roll received disability retirement in March 1993 and was later included on the diocese’s March 2007 list of priests with credible abuse allegations.

William R. Savord

• Accused
  

Ordained in 1957, William R. Savord served as a priest of the Diocese of San Diego and later in the newly formed Diocese of San Bernardino. He worked in parishes in Imperial County and other communities and was later identified as having credible allegations of sexual abuse of minors. His name appears on the Diocese of San Diego’s 30 March 2007 list of priests with credible allegations and on subsequent lists covering clergy who served in the San Bernardino region.

Edward Augustine Sheehy

• Accused
  

Edward Augustine Sheehy was ordained in 1940 for the Diocese of Portland, Maine, and joined the Paulist Fathers in 1952. His assignments included Park Street Center in Boston, Old St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, mission work, Johannesburg in South Africa, and later posts in Los Angeles, New York, and Baltimore. In 2019 the Paulist Fathers disclosed credible allegations that he sexually abused minors in the 1950s and 1960s, including while serving at parish and mission assignments. Sheehy died in 1988 and is listed among accused clergy connected to San Diego.

Gregory Sierra Sheridan

• Settled
  

Gregory Sierra Sheridan, originally from Spain, was ordained for the Augustinians in 1935. He worked in Kansas, Texas, Nebraska, and California, arriving in San Diego in 1948 and becoming incardinated there in 1952. Sheridan served for decades, was named a monsignor, and retired in 1983 with a letter of recommendation to a Spanish diocese. Women later came forward alleging he sexually abused them as young girls in the late 1960s, particularly at St. Anthony Parish in National City. His name appears on the 2007 San Diego list of priests with credible allegations, and lawsuits involving him have produced settlements.

Sister Bridgette (CSN)

• Sued
  

Sister Bridgette, a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Nazareth (CSN), worked at Nazareth House Orphanage in San Diego. A 2003 civil lawsuit accused her of sexually abusing a girl at the orphanage between 1971 and 1972, when the child was in the care of the institution. The suit also alleged abuse by Rev. Robert Buchanan and Msgr. I. Brent Eagan. When diocesan funding for the survivor’s therapy ended after one year, she refiled in 2006. Reports state that Sister Bridgette was already deceased by 2003.

William D. Spain

• Accused
  

Monsignor William D. Spain served for many years in the Diocese of San Diego, including administrative roles at the University of San Diego and its College for Men during the 1950s and 1960s. His name later appeared on the diocese’s March 2007 list of priests with credible allegations of child sexual abuse. Internal records note a 1985 accusation that he had a cocaine addiction and a sexual relationship with a young man. Spain retired due to ill health in 1986, moved to Hawaii, and died in July 1993.

Matthew J. Thompson

• Settled
  

Monsignor Matthew J. Thompson was a longtime priest of the Diocese of San Diego and pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Escondido. In 2002 diocesan officials acknowledged that he had admitted sexually abusing an altar boy decades earlier, and media reports described negotiations with the survivor. The diocese later paid a settlement related to that abuse. Thompson’s name appears on lists of priests with credible allegations, and he is among the San Diego clergy identified in large civil settlements related to child sexual abuse.

Victor Uboldi

• Sued
  

Ordained in 1945, Victor Uboldi served in multiple parishes in the Diocese of San Diego. In 1992 a woman filed a lawsuit alleging that Uboldi sexually abused her from ages 12 to 17. At least one additional accuser later came forward. Uboldi had retired in 1982, reportedly due to ill health, and is believed to have moved to Italy. He died on 7 April 2001. His name is included on the Diocese of San Diego’s March 2007 list of priests with credible abuse allegations, and his personnel file was released in 2010.

William Valverde

• Settled
  

William Valverde was ordained in 1962 and served in the Diocese of San Diego and later in San Bernardino, including at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Indio and as chaplain at a psychiatric hospital in Patton, California. In December 2003 two men filed a civil lawsuit alleging that in the mid-1970s Valverde supplied them and other minors with alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, and “deviant sex” at St. Ann in Needles. Valverde left active ministry in 1983 and was later named on diocesan lists of credibly accused clergy.

Barry Vinyard

• Sued
  

Barry Vinyard was ordained in 1975 and first served as a deacon at St. Joseph in Barstow. A 2003 lawsuit filed by a man alleged that Vinyard sexually abused him between 1978 and 1979 while assigned to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Calexico. Vinyard denied the allegations but was described as the first actively serving priest in the diocese named in such a suit. After the litigation began, he requested retirement effective 1 January 2004, and the Diocese of San Diego revoked his faculties. His personnel file was released in 2010, and he later died in 2022.

Diocese of San Jose CA

Raymond V. Dunn

• Accused
  

Jesuit priest ordained in 1957, Raymond V. Dunn taught at Jesuit schools and later lived at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos. An allegation of sexual abuse of a minor, involving conduct reported in 2002, was later deemed credible and recorded as occurring decades earlier. He had been dismissed from the Society of Jesus on 15 June 2001 and died on 3 June 2012.

Thomas Bettencourt

• Sued
  

Ordained in 1976, Thomas Bettencourt served at St. Justin Parish in Santa Clara and other South Bay parishes. A man later alleged that Bettencourt drugged and raped him as a teen at St. Justin in the early 1980s, infecting him with HIV. The Diocese of San Jose publicly named Bettencourt on its 18 October 2018 list of priests with credible accusations. He died of AIDS on 25 February 1990.

Edward Thomas Burke

• Convicted
  

Jesuit priest Edward Thomas Burke ministered at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, where he supervised vulnerable residents. Around 2000 he admitted sexually abusing a dependent adult man who lived and worked at the center. Prosecutors charged him in 2002, and at age 80 he received a two-year prison sentence after pleading guilty. His case, along with others at the facility, later figured in a multimillion-dollar settlement.

Charles Leonard Connor

• Convicted
  

Jesuit brother Charles Leonard Connor worked at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos and previously at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose. In the 1990s he was accused of sexually abusing two intellectually disabled adult men residing at the center and admitted inappropriate touching. Church officials originally handled the complaints internally. After a reopened investigation, Connor entered a no-contest plea in 2001 and received probation; related civil claims settled for $7.5 million.

L. Joseph Dondero

• Accused
  

Ordained in 1946, Jesuit priest L. Joseph Dondero served long tenures at St. Joseph Parish in San Jose and St. Thomas of Canterbury in Campbell, then retired to Sacred Heart Jesuit Center. Reports received decades later alleged he sexually abused a minor at St. Joseph in the early 1960s. His name appeared on the Diocese of San Jose’s list of clergy with credible accusations and on the Jesuits West roster. He died on 28 June 1997.

William C. Farrington

• Sued
  

Jesuit brother William C. Farrington taught or ministered at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, Jesuit High School in Sacramento, and Loyola Marymount University. He was removed from Jesuit High in 1987 after misconduct reports and later left Loyola Marymount in 2002 following further concerns. Former students later accused him of sexual abuse dating to the 1960s, including a Bellarmine student, and a lawsuit was filed in 2020. Farrington has lived under supervision since his removal.

Don D. Flickinger

• Settled
  

Ordained in 1964 for the Diocese of Fresno, Don D. Flickinger served in multiple California dioceses, including assignments in the Diocese of San Jose. Lawsuits filed in 2011 accused him of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy at St. Frances Cabrini in San Jose in 2001 and a woman at Sacred Heart in Saratoga, alongside reports of earlier misconduct elsewhere. Church authorities were alleged to have known of prior complaints. Several cases settled in 2013, and he was permanently barred from ministry.

Robert A. Gray

• Convicted
  

Diocesan priest Robert A. Gray, ordained in 1988, served at St. Justin Parish in Santa Clara and later oversaw diocesan cemeteries. In 1993 he was convicted of sexually abusing a teenage boy while teaching him karate, receiving jail time and five years’ probation, with additional counts dismissed. After treatment he was reassigned to administrative work. Amid renewed scrutiny and further allegations in 2002, Gray was removed as cemeteries director and placed on permanent leave.

Arthur Harrison

• Settled
  

Ordained in 1956, Arthur Harrison served in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and later in the Diocese of San Jose. He was charged in 2003 with molesting a 10-year-old girl in 1961 at Our Lady of Loretto in Novato; the case was dismissed after a Supreme Court ruling limited retroactive prosecutions. Separate accusations from two San Jose girls surfaced in 1988. Related civil claims were later resolved in a diocesan settlement. Harrison retired in 1992 and died in 2006.

Laurent Largente

• Accused
  

Laurent Largente, ordained in 1959, ministered at St. Patrick’s in San Jose and other parishes. In 1994 the diocese received a report that he had engaged in sexual misconduct with a child while assigned to St. Patrick’s between 1980 and 1983. He was removed from ministry that year and later permanently banned from ministry in 2002. Largente was publicly identified on the diocesan disclosure list in 2018 and died on 13 April 2015.

Alexander C. Larkin

• Settled
  

Ordained in 1967, Alexander C. Larkin served at Our Lady of the Rosary in Palo Alto and St. William in Los Altos, eventually becoming a monsignor. Allegations later surfaced that he abused two youths between 1975 and 1980 at Our Lady of the Rosary, and a third person reported abuse at St. William in 1981. He was placed on leave in December 2004, limited to restricted ministry in 2005, and permanently removed from ministry in 2009. Civil suits were settled.

Angel Crisostomo Mariano

• Convicted
  

Jesuit priest Angel Crisostomo Mariano was ordained in 1992 and served in several California communities. Known as a cross-dresser, he posed as a woman when he molested a teenage boy in 1998, an act for which he was convicted of child molestation and served jail time. Jesuit leaders had reprimanded him years earlier over sexual behavior and reassigned him. After the conviction he was removed from ministry and lived under supervision at a Jesuit community in Los Gatos.

John Rodrigues Moniz

• Convicted
  

Brother John Rodrigues Moniz belonged to a religious community with ties to the Bay Area. In 1995 he was convicted of lewd conduct with a young girl and sentenced to three years’ probation. Afterward he resided at Vianney Renewal Center in Dittmer, Missouri, a treatment and supervision facility for clergy. Moniz, whose ministry included work in regions connected to the Diocese of San Jose, died in 2008, with his conviction later cited in disclosure lists.

George Moss

• Accused
  

George Moss served as a priest at St. Joseph’s in Mountain View from 1963 until his retirement in 1976. Former parishioners later reported that he engaged in sexual misconduct with children during his time there. The Diocese of San Jose subsequently identified him among clergy with credible accusations involving minors. Moss left active ministry in 1976 and died in 1986, years before the allegations became public in diocesan disclosures.

Leonel C. Noia

• Convicted
  

Diocesan priest Leonel C. Noia was accused of showing pornography to boys and rubbing their genitals during an early-1980s camping trip at Mount Madonna. He eventually pleaded no contest to related charges and received a six-month jail sentence, five years’ probation, and mandated psychiatric treatment. The Diocese of San Jose later announced that he was permanently banned from ministry in 2002 and included him on its list of clergy with credible abuse allegations.

Joseph P. Nu’uanu

• Accused
  

Marianist brother Joseph P. Nu’uanu professed vows in 1956 and worked in schools and ministries in California and Hawaii, including within the territory of the Diocese of San Jose. The Marianist Province later reviewed allegations and concluded that he had sexually abused a minor. Nu’uanu’s name was released on the order’s 24 June 2020 list of members found to have abused minors. He died on 23 January 2013.

Joseph T. Pritchard

• Settled
  

Ordained in 1948, Joseph T. Pritchard served in several parishes and schools before becoming pastor of St. Martin of Tours Parish in San Jose. In the 2000s, at least 19 individuals accused him of sexual abuse as children during the 1960s and 1970s, and 23 civil suits were filed. The Diocese of San Jose resolved the claims as part of large settlements with survivors. Pritchard died on 17 October 1988, years before the litigation.

Noel Senevirante

• Accused
  

Sri Lankan priest Noel Senevirante worked in the Diocese of San Jose at St. Martin of Tours, St. Leo the Great, and St. Maria Goretti parishes around 1970. A report in 2002 alleged that he sexually abused a child while at St. Leo the Great School between 1971 and 1972. He was permanently banned from ministry that year. Senevirante later returned to his home diocese and died on 16 June 2009.

Edward M. Stretch

• Accused
  

Jesuit priest Edward M. Stretch ministered throughout the western United States, including assignments that connected him to Northern California. Jesuits West later determined that an allegation he sexually abused a minor was credible, though the precise date of the abuse was listed as undetermined. His name appeared on the province’s roster of credibly accused priests and brothers and on regional compilations of religious-order clergy with substantiated allegations.

Phil Sunseri

• Accused
  

Phil Sunseri served in several parishes in what is now the Diocese of San Jose. Reports in 1986 and 1987 accused him of sexually abusing children. After internal review, diocesan officials removed him from ministry and permanently barred him in 1988. Sunseri died in 1991, and his name later appeared on the diocesan disclosure list of priests with credible allegations of sexual abuse of minors.

Hernan Toro

• Convicted
  

Hernan Toro, a Colombian-born priest, served at Our Lady Star of the Sea in Alviso and other parishes in the Diocese of San Jose. In 1983 he was convicted of sexually abusing a child at Our Lady Star of the Sea and required to register as a sex offender. Later allegations involved additional victims, including girls abused in 2011 and 2016. By 2018 he was incarcerated, and the diocese listed him among credibly accused clergy.

Benedict Van der Putten

• Accused
  

Benedict Van der Putten, a priest of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, worked in the San Jose area around 2000. A teenage girl accused him of molestation during spiritual counseling. After the allegation, he was sent to the Southdown Institute in Canada for evaluation and treatment, then laicized. He later relocated to Hawaii, married, fathered four children, and moved to Oklahoma. His case appears on lists describing clergy credibly accused in the region.

Diocese of Santa Rosa CA

Xavier Pallathuparambil

• Accused
  

Father Xavier Pallathuparambil was ordained in 1952 for the Diocese of Vijayapuram in India and briefly served in the Diocese of Santa Rosa. Records show he worked there from 2 February 1984 until his dismissal on 13 April 1984. In January 2019 Santa Rosa identified him as having a credible allegation of sexually abusing a minor during that short assignment. He later returned to India and died on 29 May 2004.

Anthony Bolger

• Sued
  

Ordained in 1969 for Santa Rosa, Anthony Bolger later transferred to the Diocese of Honolulu. Allegations accuse him of sexually abusing a boy at St. Anthony’s in Kailua, Hawaii, between about 1978 and 1981 while he taught and ministered there. A lawsuit was filed in 2013, and the Diocese of Santa Rosa’s 2019 list notes accusations dating to the early 1970s. Bolger died on 7 January 2015 in Tijuana, Mexico.

John J. Brenkle

• Cleared
  

John J. Brenkle, ordained in 1958, served at several parishes and was a prominent pastor in the Diocese of Santa Rosa. Around 2005, a father alleged Brenkle had molested his seventh-grade son in the mid-1990s. The diocese placed Brenkle on leave and opened an investigation. After the alleged victim stated that abuse had not occurred, Brenkle was found not responsible and returned to ministry, eventually chairing the diocesan Lay Review Board.

James F. Corley

• Sued
  

Ordained in 1966, James F. Corley served at parishes including Our Lady of Guadalupe in Windsor and Our Lady Queen of Peace in Clearlake. Decades later, a lawsuit alleged he sexually abused a seven-year-old boy in 1977 at Our Lady of Guadalupe. Corley left ministry in the late 1980s and died of AIDS on 5 October 1990. 

John S. Crews

• Accused
  

John S. Crews, ordained in 1971, became executive director of Hanna Boys Center in Sebastopol in 1984. He resigned on 6 February 2013 after a report that he had an inappropriate relationship with a minor male between 1971 and 1975, before his Hanna tenure. Two former residents later accused him of abuse at the center in the mid-1980s and around 1999–2001. The Diocese of Santa Rosa listed Crews as an accused priest in January 2019. He reportedly now lives in South Carolina, but has since settled other alleged abuses until at least 2022.

Diocese of Santa Rosa CA

Patrick Gleeson

• Settled
  

Patrick Gleeson, ordained in 1943 and later incardinated into the Diocese of Santa Rosa, served as pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Calistoga from 1967 to 1975. In 2002 a man alleged that Gleeson repeatedly abused him as a boy between 1968 and 1972. The claim became part of broader litigation, and two cases involving Gleeson were resolved in a 2005 settlement of about $7.3 million with eight survivors.

Patrick A. Hannon

• Accused
  

Patrick A. Hannon, a priest from a religious order, worked in the Diocese of Santa Rosa from 1980 to 1981. In 2000 he was accused of sexually abusing a minor in 1981 during that brief assignment. The diocese later listed him among clergy with credible accusations when it released names in January 2019. Hannon had died in 1993, years before the allegation became public.

Michael Emmet Kelly

• Accused
  

Michael Emmet Kelly was ordained for the Diocese of Santa Rosa on May 15, 1971 and served in several parishes. In 1999 he was accused of sexually abusing a minor, with alleged misconduct spanning from 1971 through 1999. The diocese suspended him from ministry on October 24, 1999 while it investigated. Church records show that he was laicized on October 15, 2004 and later listed among credibly accused clergy.

Donald Wren Kimball

• Convicted
  

Donald Wren “Don” Kimball, ordained in 1969, became a well-known youth minister and media voice in the Diocese of Santa Rosa. He was placed on leave in 1990 after accusations that he abused boys and girls connected to diocesan programs. In 2002 a jury convicted him of child molestation involving a 13-year-old girl, and he received a seven-year prison sentence. His conviction rested on a statute later struck down, but civil cases and church findings kept him barred from ministry.

Patrick Joseph McCabe

• Convicted
  

Patrick Joseph McCabe, a priest of the Dublin archdiocese, was moved repeatedly after Irish officials received abuse complaints in the 1970s and 1980s. He later worked in California, including within the territory of the Diocese of Santa Rosa, during that period of reassignment. Irish authorities ultimately charged him with multiple counts of indecent assault of boys for abuse between 1973 and 1981. Located abroad, he was extradited to Ireland in 2011 to face criminal proceedings.

John A. Meenan

• Accused
  

John A. Meenan served in Northern California parishes during the early years of the Diocese of Santa Rosa. He was accused of sexually abusing a minor in the 1960s, during the diocese’s first decade. Church records show that he took leave in 1971 as allegations surfaced and later sought removal from the clerical state, which was granted on May 23, 1975. Meenan died on April 21, 2009.

Francis E. Neville

• Accused
  

Francis E. Neville, ordained for the Diocese of Colombo in Sri Lanka, worked in the Diocese of Santa Rosa from 1983 to 1984. In 1993 a report alleged that he sexually abused a minor in 1983 while assigned there. The diocese later placed his name on its public list of clergy with credible accusations. Neville died in October 2002, with the allegation documented in diocesan transparency materials.

Vincent O’Neill

• Settled
  

Vincent O’Neill was ordained for the Diocese of Santa Rosa on May 21, 1971 and served as a parish priest in the 1970s. Five former altar boys later alleged that he sexually abused them when they were about 13 years old during that decade. The diocese reached a settlement with the five men in January 1997 for an undisclosed amount. O’Neill retired in 1996 and died on November 12, 1998.

Francisco Xavier Ochoa

• Indicted
  

Francisco Xavier Ochoa Pérez, ordained in Mexico for the Jesuits, began ministry in the Diocese of Santa Rosa in 1988 and served Spanish-speaking communities. In April 2006 three boys reported that he sexually abused them, and he admitted a pattern of misconduct to the bishop. Ochoa left the country shortly after being placed on leave and fled to Mexico. Prosecutors in Sonoma County charged him with multiple felony counts of child sexual abuse, and he remains a fugitive.

Ted Oswald

• Settled
  

Ted Oswald was a member of the Brothers of Our Lady of the Poor in Tucson from 1976 to 1977 before entering seminary and later serving as a priest with assignments tied to Santa Rosa. Civil litigation alleged he participated in the sexual abuse of a minor alongside Fr. Robert Trupia during his time as a brother. Following these and related cases, Oswald was permanently removed from the priesthood in 2008, and settlements were reached with survivors.

Thomas G. Parker

• Accused
  

Thomas G. Parker was ordained for the Diocese of Santa Rosa on April 13, 1985 and became pastor of St. Apollinaris Parish in Napa. In 2007 the diocese received a report that he had sexually abused a youth at St. Apollinaris in 1988 or 1989. Law enforcement opened an investigation after the report. Parker was removed from ministry, and in 2008 church authorities completed laicization, formally returning him to the lay state.

John K. Rogers

• Accused
  

John K. Rogers, a diocesan priest and religious scholar, served as campus minister at Humboldt State University and worked in Santa Rosa parishes. In the mid-1990s a 15-year-old boy accused him of sexual abuse, prompting church officials to recall Rogers from Europe to face the allegation. Before returning, Rogers died by suicide in a Belgian forest on November 11, 1995. Later diocesan disclosures list him among clergy with credible accusations.

Jorge Hume Salas

• Accused
  

Jorge Hume Salas served as a priest in the Diocese of Santa Rosa during Bishop G. Patrick Ziemann’s tenure. Several adult men reported that he sexually accosted them in parish settings, which led to his removal from ministry. Salas then filed a civil suit against Bishop Ziemann, alleging that the bishop coerced him into a sexual relationship while using knowledge of Salas’s misconduct and financial irregularities as leverage. A court awarded Salas approximately $535,000 in damages.

Wilfred L. Sheehy

• Accused
  

Wilfred L. Sheehy, a Pallottine priest ordained in 1960, worked in dioceses across the United States before arriving in the Diocese of Santa Rosa in 1966. He served in parish ministry until retiring in 1989. A woman later accused him of sexually abusing her as a minor between 1972 and 1977. The diocese identified him in 2019 among clergy with credible allegations. Sheehy died on October 21, 2014.

Alfredo Sobalvarro

• Accused
  

Alfredo Sobalvarro, born in Guatemala, was ordained for the Archdiocese of Washington, DC on May 8, 1971. He worked in the Diocese of Santa Rosa from 1972 to 1976, including at St. John’s in Healdsburg, before moving to assignments in other states. In 2002 he was accused of abusing a minor in the Diocese of Joliet. Santa Rosa’s 2019 disclosure notes his service there and that he has been out of ministry since about 2003.

Jerome Stack

• Accused
  

Jerome Stack, a priest of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood, was ordained in 1972 and served in the Diocese of Santa Rosa as a parish priest, teacher, and chaplain at a state psychiatric facility. He later held leadership roles for his order in Rome and retired to Arizona in 2017. In 2019 his order received an allegation that he sexually abused a minor in 1979, deemed credible by its review board, and he was removed from public ministry.

Gary Timmons

• Convicted
  

Gary Timmons, ordained in 1967, served in Santa Rosa parishes and founded Camp St. Michael in Leggett, a diocesan boys’ camp. Former campers later recounted that he sexually abused them at the camp and in parish settings in the 1970s. In 1996 Timmons pled guilty to lewd conduct with multiple teenage boys and received two concurrent eight-year prison terms, serving several years before release. He was laicized in 2001, and the diocese later paid significant settlements to survivors.

James E. Walsh

• Accused
  

Monsignor James E. Walsh was ordained for the Archdiocese of San Francisco on March 20, 1943 and became part of the Diocese of Santa Rosa at its creation in 1962. He served at St. Helena’s in St. Helena and other parishes, holding prominent leadership roles. In 2005 a person alleged that he sexually abused a minor in 1965 while assigned to St. Helena’s. Walsh had died on December 3, 1993, long before the accusation was made public, and the diocese later listed him among credibly accused clergy.

Bernard “Bernie” Ward

• Convicted
  

Bernard “Bernie” Ward, a Missionaries of the Precious Blood priest ordained in 1977, left active ministry around 1979 or 1980, married, and became a widely known talk-radio host on KGO in San Francisco. In 2007 federal prosecutors charged him with distributing child pornography after he sent illicit images by email. Ward pled guilty in 2008 to one count and admitted sending dozens of images. He received a federal prison sentence of more than seven years and was released in 2014.

Ron Wiecek

• Accused
  

Ron Wiecek, another Missionaries of the Precious Blood priest, was ordained in 1971 and spent part of his ministry teaching and serving in the Diocese of Santa Rosa. Later reports accused him of “overzealously” spanking a boy in the 1970s and attempting to pick up an adult man roughly three decades earlier. Further complaints surfaced while he was working in the Diocese of Monterey, which revoked his faculties in 2010. His order removed him from ministry, and his name appears in Santa Rosa-related abuse compilations.

Diocese of Stockton CA

Francis Arakal

• Settled
  

Francis Arakal, a Carmelite priest from India, served as associate pastor at St. Anne’s Church in Lodi and later at St. Joseph’s in Modesto. In 2001 a 13-year-old parishioner reported that he touched her breasts, leading to a civil suit in San Joaquin County. In 2005 a jury found no wrongful touching but awarded the family $20,000 for emotional distress related to how parish clergy handled the disclosure.

Antonio Camacho

• Accused
  

Antonio Camacho, an extern priest from the Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos in Mexico, worked in the Diocese of Stockton at St. Anthony Parish in Hughson and St. Stanislaus in Modesto between 1981 and 1984, then in the Diocese of Oakland. He was accused of sexually abusing two high school boys during that period. Bishop Roger Mahony removed him from ministry and returned him to Mexico, where he later died in 1990.

Didachus (Didacus) Clavell

• Accused
  

Franciscan Brother Didachus (often spelled Didacus) Clavell, OFM, taught at St. Mary’s High School in Stockton beginning around 1964. His name appeared on the Stockton Diocese’s 2014 bankruptcy filing list of accused clergy and on the St. Barbara Province Franciscans’ 2019 list of friars with allegations involving minors. That list notes substantial contrary evidence and an inability to corroborate the allegation. Clavell remained a member of the province and died in April 2024 at age 91.

Murty M. Fahy

• Sued
  

Murty M. Fahy, an Irish priest and associate pastor at St. Anne’s Church in Lodi, served in the Diocese of Stockton from the 1960s until his retirement and death in 2001. In 2006 a woman sued, alleging that Fahy sexually abused her between ages 5 and 11 in the mid-1990s at the parish school. Police investigated earlier complaints but reported they could not substantiate criminal charges, while diocesan officials continued internal review during bankruptcy proceedings.

Julio Cesar Guarin-Sosa

• Not Guilty
  

Julio Cesar Guarin-Sosa, a visiting priest from Colombia, filled in at St. Anne’s in Lodi in 2013 while his brother, the pastor, was away. He was arrested in March 2013 on allegations that he kissed a 16-year-old girl, and charged with child molestation, sexual battery and illegal entry. After his removal from ministry and release on bail, felony charges were dropped in June 2013. A jury acquitted him of remaining misdemeanor counts in October 2013.

Michael Eugene Kelly

• Indicted
  

Michael Eugene Kelly, a priest from Ireland ordained in 1973, served in multiple Stockton parishes. Concerns about inappropriate touching led to psychological evaluation in 1999 and reassignment. He was removed from ministry in 2007 after an allegation of abuse of a 10-year-old boy in 1984, reinstated when the complainant declined to cooperate, then sued again in 2008. A civil jury found him liable for child sexual abuse in 2012. Kelly left for Ireland amid a criminal investigation and was later indicted in California in 2014 while living abroad, but charges were dropped after the victim’s death.

Editho Mascardo

• Reinstated
  

Editho Mascardo, ordained in 1983, served at St. George’s in Stockton and St. Mary of the Assumption before later hospital chaplaincy. In 2001 a report was made to Stockton police alleging inappropriate conduct toward a minor, but no charges followed. When the allegation resurfaced in 2015, the diocese placed Mascardo on leave and opened a new investigation. In May 2016 the diocesan review board reported it had not determined that sexual abuse occurred, and Mascardo returned to ministry as a chaplain in Modesto.

Edward Noonan

• Accused
  

Monsignor Edward Noonan served in the Diocese of Stockton from 1933 until 1969 in several assignments. In 2020 the diocese’s updated list of credibly accused clergy reported multiple allegations of child sexual abuse against Noonan, with claimed incidents occurring between 1952 and 1955, 1959 and 1962, as well as in 1965 and 1967. Noonan was long deceased when the diocese publicly identified him; he had held prominent positions during his active ministry.

Oliver Francis O’Grady

• Convicted
  

Oliver Francis O’Grady, a priest from Ireland, served in several Central California parishes including Stockton, Turlock and Hughson. He sexually abused numerous boys and girls over decades. O’Grady was convicted in 1993 and served a prison term of approximately seven years before being deported to Ireland. Subsequent civil litigation produced multimillion-dollar settlements. Later proceedings in Ireland included a child pornography conviction, and reports indicate he was released from custody in 2014 while remaining under scrutiny by law enforcement and advocates.

Oscar A. Pelaez

• Convicted
  

Oscar A. Pelaez, an extern priest from Colombia, served at Sacred Heart Church in Turlock. Allegations surfaced that he repeatedly molested a boy beginning when the victim was about 14 years old in 1997. In 2002 Pelaez pleaded guilty to multiple counts of child molestation and received a six-year state prison sentence, along with an order to pay restitution. The Diocese of Stockton later paid roughly $1 million to settle related civil claims. Pelaez faced potential deportation upon release.

Eduardo Perez Torrez

• Accused
  

Eduardo De Jesus Perez Torrez, a priest from the Diocese of Palmira in Colombia, worked in the Diocese of Stockton from 1999 to 2014, including assignments at St. Stanislaus in Modesto and parishes in Oakdale, Stockton and Riverbank. In February 2018 Modesto police received a report that he sexually abused a 15-year-old girl in 1999 while assigned to St. Stanislaus. The diocesan review board opened an investigation, and Perez Torrez was no longer in active ministry in the diocese.

Antonio Munoz Rodriguez

• Accused
  

Antonio Muñoz Rodriguez, a visiting priest from the Archdiocese of Tijuana, served as associate pastor at St. George’s in Stockton from December 1977 to May 1979 and at St. Anthony’s in Hughson until September 1981. Bishop Roger Mahony removed his faculties and directed him to remain in Mexico after reports that he had sexually abused high school students. Later diocesan disclosures and media coverage list Munoz among clergy credibly or repeatedly accused of misconduct with minors in the Stockton Diocese.

Leo Suarez

• Settled
  

Leo Suarez, a Mexican-born priest, served at St. Anthony’s in Hughson in the late 1980s and early 1990s and later at Our Lady of Fatima in Modesto. Around 2009 he self-reported sexually abusing a girl at St. Anthony’s in 1991. He was removed from ministry and ultimately dismissed from the clerical state in 2016. Civil claims were settled, and in 2023 diocesan officials publicly warned that Suarez was still celebrating “illegitimate” Masses despite his removal.

Fernando Villalobos

• Sued
  

Franciscan Father Fernando Villalobos, OFM, ordained in 1979 and originally from Costa Rica, served at St. Mary’s in Stockton and worked extensively with poor and at-risk youth. A civil RICO lawsuit filed in February 2003 alleged that he sexually abused a boy between ages 12 and 15 at St. Mary’s from 1980 to 1983, and attempted to abuse the boy’s brother shortly before Villalobos’s death on December 31, 1985. 

About Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church

California Clergy sexual abuse includes a misuse of power to sexually abuse or exploit a child or vulnerable adult in the church. Numerous priests have been accused of sexual abuse in California, including priests in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, and Santa Rosa, as well as in other dioceses. Priests have also been accused of child sexual abuse at:

• Santa Paula
• Good Shepherd
• Corpus Christi
• Mount Carmel
• Holy Trinity
• Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
• Most Precious Blood
• Our Lady Queen of the World
• Immaculate Heart of Mary

When proven guilty, priests accused of child sexual abuse are subject to criminal charges and civil claims. California clergy sexual abuse lawyers play an important role in helping victims overcome a history of child sexual abuse in the church, providing them with resources for perpetual help. The legal system gives child victims a voice to overcome clergy abuse, and further information can be obtained through legal counsel.

Legal Support for Clergy Abuse Survivors in California

A civil suit alleges that child sexual abuse occurred and aims to seek justice through the financial recovery of damages. While receiving compensation doesn’t forgive the child sexual abuse, civil or private settlements can help victims pay for the resources they need to assist in recovery.

Credible accusations of sexual misconduct also help bring light to a bigger problem while ensuring that those with credible accusations against them can no longer hold that same power over other members. It can ensure that priests accused of child sexual abuse won’t be in a position to engage in further sexual misconduct.

What Laws Govern Priest Abuse Lawsuits in California?

California has several laws in place to help protect victims of child sexual abuse. Some acts extend the statute of limitations, giving victims plenty of time to file a suit against credibly accused priests or an associate pastor. Mandating reporting can help catch those who are sexually abusing minors, too.

Statute of Limitations

The statute of limitations is how long a person has to file a lawsuit against someone for a specific crime. Each crime has its own time limit for a lawsuit, including child sexual abuse. In California, it depends on when the child sexual abuse occurred.

If before 2024, victims of sexual abuse have until their 40th birthday or five years after they realized the child sexual abuse was connected to their injuries to file a suit against credibly accused priests.

If the alleged sexual abuse happened after 2024, there is no statute of limitations for children.

Adults have a different timeframe. Those who suffered from alleged sexual abuse have ten years after the incident or three years after they discover the injury, whichever is later.

Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up Act

California legislators made note of cover-ups for sexual misconduct and other clergy abuse to protect the credibly accused. The Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up Act (AB 2777) created a lookback window to allow victims to file a suit against credibly accused priests or other members of a religious order, such as an assistant pastor.

Claims for damages suffered on or after January 1, 2009, that would otherwise be barred by the statute of limitations or a prior statute of limitations may be revived. However, the lookback window closes on December 31, 2026, making it essential to explore filing a suit against the credibly accused priest or clergy member now.

Filing a Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Against Credibly Accused Priests in California

Filing a clergy sexual abuse lawsuit in California brings light to a larger problem, helping others seek justice and protect future generations from the same child sexual abuse. A civil suit includes the following steps:

• Contact Injury Lawyer Team – Our clergy sexual abuse law firm offers a free, confidential consultation and represents those seeking justice against California priests.
• Investigation – The California legal system presumes priests accused of sexual abuse are innocent until proven guilty. Investigation into the alleged abuse allows us to prove guilt through witness reports, personal statements, and diocese records.
• Settlement – Clergy officials commonly settle with victims to keep prior abuse quiet. However, settlement offers can hide a history of sexually abusing children in the church.
• Trial – Should you or your loved one decide to present your case in front of a jury, our legal team will prepare and represent you every step of the way.

Contact Injury Lawyer Team today to explore your legal options and receive good counsel.

Support Resources for Survivors in California

Counseling and legal support services can help California victims overcome the lasting damage of sexual abuse in the church. Here are a few support resources available to California residents seeking perpetual help :

• East Los Angeles Women’s Center: The East Los Angeles Women’s Center has a 24/7 crisis hotline available at 800-585-6231. They can help with various types of abuse, including sexual misconduct or clergy abuse.
• National Sexual Violence Resource Center: The National Sexual Violence Resource Center has a Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP). Connect with resources at 877-762-7432.
• Survivor Ministry: The Diocese of Oakland has created a Survivor Ministry, offering counseling services to those affected by priest abuse. It is specifically for victims of credibly accused priests. Reach the hotline at 510-267-8373.
• LA Catholics: The LA Catholics victims assistance ministry is available through the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Reach out to LA Catholics at 213-637-7650.

A civil suit filed can also help victims recover the funds they need to seek support services.

Notable Cases and Outcomes of Credible Accusations in California

California has a lengthy history of clergy abuse, many of which have led to lawsuits and settlement offers. A Los Angeles list of credibly accused priests led to the archdiocese paying millions of dollars in settlement offers to over 500 abused victims. This list helped shine a light on the shocking number of priests who were sexually abusing minors.

The Diocese of Orange settled 90 cases of abuse involving various clergy, including associate pastors. The Saint Anthony Seminary and the Los Angeles Archdiocese have also been the subject of sexual abuse settlement cases involving a parochial vicar. Pedophile priests, troubled priests, and clergy official cover-ups paint a distrusting picture, and our team is here to help seek justice.

Published List of Priests Accused of Sexual Abuse of a Minor

More recently, California dioceses have also been releasing their own lists, bringing to light the priests accused over decades of church service. Many California dioceses have also filed for bankruptcy following an influx of accused priests or an associate pastor, making it essential to consider your legal options soon.

Settlement for a Credible Allegation

Our attorneys have reviewed public and private settlement data related to California clergy abuse settlements. Depending on the circumstances of your clergy abuse case, these cases may be fairly valued in the $400,000 to $950,000 range. In cases of extreme conduct or if your case were to go before a jury, damages could exceed $1 million.

Why Choose Injury Lawyer Team

The Injury Lawyer Team legal team seeks justice and empowers clergy abuse victims to take action. The level of sexual abuse and clergy abuse of power in the Catholic Church is becoming more prevalent.

Injury Lawyer Team is dedicated to helping its clients overcome decades of sexual abuse and misconduct. Our compassionate lawyers understand the discretion and sensitivity required when handling sexual abuse cases involving ministry personnel.

We also have the necessary experience to successfully represent clergy abuse victims when going up against the largest California dioceses and any related religious order involved.

Contact a Clergy Sexual Abuse Lawyer Today

Are you ready to seek justice for the clergy abuse you had to endure while entrusting a religious order? Injury Lawyer Team is here to help you every step of the way. Our team of sexual abuse lawyers offers a free, confidential consultation so you can explore your legal options with no obligation.

Whether filing a claim against a former or current priest or bringing awareness to an archdiocese cover-up, our team has the experience you need to get successful results and also provide perpetual help.

Contact Injury Lawyer Team today to schedule your consultation about cases involving credibly accused clergy.

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