Priest Ousted Amid Sex Charges
Parish Over Allegations of Sex Charges. A second Metro Detroit priest in less than a week has left his parish over allegations of sexual misconduct. The Rev. Gary Bueche, pastor of SS. John and Paul Catholic Church in Washington Township, quit Monday night after "a credible" allegation of sexual abuse was filed against him with … [Read more...] about Priest Ousted Amid Sex Charges
Church Abuse Case Motion to Be Heard
The first phase of Cardinal Bernard Law's testimony on his handling of a now-defrocked pedophile priest has ended, but the Archdiocese of Boston's legal battles continue. Middlesex Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders planned to hold a hearing Tuesday on whether the psychiatric and medical records of the Rev. Paul Shanley can be … [Read more...] about Church Abuse Case Motion to Be Heard
Former New Mexico Priest Faces New Charges
A former New Mexico priest now faces new charges of criminal sexual conduct. Jason Sigler, once a patient at the Servants of the Paraclete Treatment Center in Jemez Springs, is among four former priests now facing sex charges in Detroit, Mich. All of the counts against Sigler and the other priests involve boys that were … [Read more...] about Former New Mexico Priest Faces New Charges
Ex-Priest Faces New Child Sex Charges
Effort to prosecute a prominent defrocked priest San Francisco prosecutors' all-but-moribund effort to prosecute a prominent defrocked priest on child molestation charges was revived Friday when a grand jury indicted former Monsignor Patrick O'Shea for allegedly abusing a onetime altar boy. O'Shea, 69, surrendered to prosecutors … [Read more...] about Ex-Priest Faces New Child Sex Charges
Priest Gets 30 Days In Jail On Sex Charges
Admitted molesting at least a dozen boys Robert Burkholder, a Roman Catholic priest who has admitted molesting at least a dozen boys going as far back as the 1940s, pleaded no contest Friday to a pair of sex charges and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. The 83-year-old resident of Leeward Oahu, Hawaii, pleaded no contest to two … [Read more...] about Priest Gets 30 Days In Jail On Sex Charges
Priest Nabbed In Canada On Sex Charges
Accused of sexually assaulting 19 altar boys Canadian police yesterday nabbed the retired Assumption Parish priest accused of sexually assaulting 19 altar boys between 1978 and 1984, according to a statement from Worcester District Attorney John J. Conte. The Rev. Paul M. Desilets, 78, was arrested in Joliet, Quebec, following an … [Read more...] about Priest Nabbed In Canada On Sex Charges
Priest Pleads Guilty To Abuse
A 75-year-old priest pleaded guilty yesterday to sex charges stemming from incidents that occurred more than 40 years ago. Rev. John Harper pleaded guilty to the charges laid after Peter Gahlinger claimed he was sexually abused by the Aylmer priest between 1959 and 1964. Harper, at the time an assistant priest at Our Lady of … [Read more...] about Priest Pleads Guilty To Abuse
