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On December 3, 2020, New York City priest Fr. George Rutler, the prestigious pastor of the Church of St. Michael in Manhattan who gained notoriety for criticizing high-profile Irish politician Leo Varadkar's homosexually, was arrested on charges of groping female security guard Ashley Gonzalez.
In early 2002, The Boston Globe published results of an investigation that led to the criminal prosecutions of five Roman Catholic priests and thrust the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy into the national spotlight. [1] [2] [3] Another accused priest who was involved in the Spotlight scandal also pleaded guilty. [4]
In 2003 at least 34 priests were suspended in a sex abuse scandal involving sexual harassment of women. Twenty men were from a single diocese. [41] In 2011, a priest accused of sexually abusing a 17-year-old female minor was sheltered by his bishop, despite calls for his surrender to civil authorities. [42]
Another priest, Father Michael Baker — one of the church's most prolific abusers — had been accused of molesting at least 40 boys during his decades in the priesthood. In 2007, Baker pleaded ...
Calaveras County charged Priest Michael Kelly with child rape. Then the DA initially lost the grand jury transcript and dropped the charges. A pedophile priest fled the U.S.
A Florida priest is accused of biting a woman during a dispute at Sunday Mass and could be charged with battery. The woman attended a 10 a.m. service at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in St. Cloud on ...
On September 21, 2005, nearly 10 years after the death of Cardinal John Krol, a grand jury, impaneled by Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham, announced that Cardinal Krol was involved with the cover-up of a sex scandal against accused priests throughout the archdiocese, as was his successor 1988–2003, Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua.
Another Filipino priest has been added to the mounting cases of alleged sexual abuses in the Catholic Church. Rev. Armand Garcia, 49 years old, has been charged with rape following allegations ...