Additional criminal charges against a retired Catholic priest Ventura County prosecutors filed additional criminal charges Tuesday against a retired Catholic priest after two more men came forward with allegations that they were molested as boys three decades ago. Father Carl Sutphin, 70, now faces 14 counts of child molestation … [Read more...]
2 More Men Accuse Retired Priest
Lawsuit: Dioceses Hid Priest Abuse
A priest convicted of sexual misconduct in Milwaukee in 1973 was transferred to California, where he molested an 8-year-old boy, a lawsuit claims. The suit says the Milwaukee archdiocese and the Orange County diocese covered up molestations and continued to regard the Rev. Sigfried Widera "as a Catholic priest who could be trusted … [Read more...]
Priest Is Focus of Pima Inquiry
A local priest grabbed his crotch A teen-age boy who called it an accident when a local priest grabbed his crotch in a pool has changed his story, prompting a county attorney's investigation. The priest, the Rev. Steven G. Stencil, has been barred from practicing his ministry in the Catholic Diocese of Tucson since February 2001 … [Read more...]
Strong Suspicions, Years of Silence
A convincing story about being molested by a priest. The Baltimore sex-crimes detective had listened as a 17-year-old boy told a convincing story about being molested by a priest. And he'd heard from others that the priest regularly took adolescents into the rectory, locking the door and drawing the blinds. When the detective -- … [Read more...]
Nebraska Archdiocese Admits Negligence
The Omaha Archdiocese has admitted that negligent supervision of a Roman Catholic priest in the 1990s contributed to his sexual abuse of a 14-year-old altar boy, a judge said Thursday. As a result, two civil lawsuits against the archdiocese scheduled for trial next week will decide only damages, not whether the church was … [Read more...]
Carroll Priest Indicted On Abuse Charges
A suspended Carroll County priest, arrested last month in the alleged abuse of a youth from the Westminster parish where he was assigned two decades ago, was indicted yesterday in the alleged abuse of a second boy about the same time. The Rev. Brian M. Cox, 63, was indicted by a Carroll County grand jury on five counts of felony … [Read more...]
Bishops’ Policy May Be Tested By Priest’s Case
A new national policy against sex abuse Sometime soon, with a new national policy against sex abuse in hand, Detroit Cardinal Adam Maida must decide what to do about the Rev. Dennis Laesch. Laesch, 47, was accused five years ago of getting a 17-year-old boy drunk and sexually assaulting him in a cottage near Port Huron. The … [Read more...]
