Accused: A to F

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This page lists names beginning with letters “”A” to “F” of  Canadian clergy and religious publicly accused, sued and/or charged in relation to allegations of criminal acts of any nature and/or actions which are unbecoming to that person’s station in life.   Click the following links to page with  names beginning with letters “G” to :L”

names beginning with letters “M” to “Z”

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ABBASS:  Paul J. Abbass (Father Paul Abbass)

priest, Diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia.  Ordained 1979.  Mid February 2012 place don leave after complaint of some nature was filed with the Nova Scotia Department of Human Serevices.  Click her for further info

ALDEA:  Pedro Surtida (Father Pedro Surtida Aldea)

from the Phillipinees.   Ordained 1966.  Moved to Saskatchewan some time after ordination.  28 October 2004 charged after he tried to develop porn pictures he took while availing himself of services of two underage prostitutes in Regina Saskatchewan in 2004.  GUILTY plea.  House arrest served while in priest’s retirement home located blocks from two schools.  Click here for further info.

ALLEN:  Richard (Father Richard Allen)

priest of the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie Ontario.  Ordained 1956.  (seems he may have been incardinated in the Diocese of St. Catharines in the early 70s for a spell)  1994 CONVICTED on charges related to the sexual abuse of a young girl from age 13 to 15 between the years 1957 to 1960, and again when the girl was an adult from 1978 to 1981 (the victim became a nun.) Click here for further info

ALLEN: William (Father William Allen)

priest Archdiocese Ottawa, Ontario.  Ordained 1955.  Charges laid 12 July 2010.  Click here for further info

AMESSE:  Stephen ( Father Stephen Amesse)

priest Archdiocese of Ottawa, Ontario.  Late vocation – ordained 1999 at at age 41.  As layman assisted in production of CCCB 1992 sex abuse guidelines From Pain to Hope.  04 December 2014 charged – charges relate to allegations of sex abuse of 14-year-old boy in 2008. Click here for further info

ANTLE:  Aloysius (Father Aloysius Antle)

St. John’s Newfoundland.    1993  CONVICTED on two of eight counts of indecent and sexual assault.   Antle had entered a not guilty plea  to all eight counts which were said to have transpired 1970-1986.  Click here for further info

ANTUNES:  Heitor (Father Heitor Antunes)

Portuguese priest.  Ordained 1995 in Portugal.   Began to serve in Diocese of Hamilton Ontario in June 2016.  In 2014  fathered a child in Portugal.  Allegations that the sexual relationship with the child’s mother began when she was 14 and he was 34.  The child was born when the woman was 24. Click here for further info

ARCHIBALD:  Ernest (Father Ernest Archibald)

Priest.  Served in region of Vogar, Manitoba.  Lawsuit filed 2016 alleging sexual abuse of Metis boy between 1937 and 1942.  Click here for further info.

ARSENAULT:  Yvon (Father Yvon Arsenault)

Priest, Archdiocese of Moncton New Brunswick.  Ordained 11 May 1968.  Quietly removed August 2012 after allegations of sex abuse – parishioners advised to reason for removal December 2012.  Click here for further info

AVALLONE:  Paul (Father Paul Avallone)

American-born priest with order of priests known as Salesians /Salesians of Don Bisco (SDB).  Ordained 1950. ‘Pioneered’ Salesian St. Patrick High School in Sherbrooke Quebec.  Name listed on Diocese of New Orleans website as one of several religious order priests serving in the archdiocese who have been credibly accused of sexual sexual abuse.    Click here for further info

AZAHAKATHU:  Abraham (Father Abraham Azhakathu mst)

Priest in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church (full communion with Rome) and member of  Missionary Society of St. Thomas.  Served in the Archdiocese Grouard –McLenna (Alberta).  March 2014 charged with sexual assault and sexual interference,  Click here for further info –

BARBOUR:  Joseph (Father Joseph Barbour)

Roman Catholic priest Archdiocese St. John’s Newfoundland.   Ordained 1963.  August 1990, charged one count dating to 1986 in St. Mary’s Bay, Newfoundland. Click here for further info

BARRETT:  Edward (Father Edward Barrett)

Roman Catholic priest  Archdiocese of Kingston, Ontario.  1998 NOT GUILTY by Justice Dan Chilcott on number of sex offence charges. Click here for further info

BARRY:  Gerard Kevin (Brother Gerard Kevin Barry)

Christian Brother.  Taught at St. Bonaventure College, Newfoundland and worked at Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John’s Newfoundland.  1998 CONVICTED for sex abuse of boys at Mount Cashel.  Click here for further info

BASTIEN:  Linus (Father Linus Bastien)

priest, Diocese of London, Ontario.  Ordained 1951.  October 2011 charges related to allegations of sex abuse by two former altar boys. Click her for further info

BAYANI:  Edgardo (Father Edgardo Bayani)

charge of sexual interference by female hospital worker at Calgary Foothills hospital in 1999.  Charge later dropped. Click here for further info

BAYNHAM:  Paul (Brother Paul Baynham)

Former religious brother with the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Canada.  Returned to States in 1980.  1990 sex abuse charges laid in relation to his years serving in Labrador.  Government would not extradite him.  2002 lawsuit launched.  Click here for further info.

BAZIN:  Roger (Monsignor Roger Bazin)

priest – military chaplain – formerly head chaplain for the Canadian Armed Forces. December 2010 CHARGES DROPPED.  Click here for further info

BEAUPRE:  Armand (Father Armand Beaupre)

priest Diocese of  St. Paul, Alberta.    Ordained 1960.  In 1986 sent by Bishop Raymond Roy to treatemnt centre in Ontario (Southdown?)  February 1990 charges were  laid related to sex abuse of teenage boy at Cold Lake Mission 1976-1983.  December 199o found GUILTY acts of indecent assault and gross indecency. Sentenced to 15 months jail and three years probation.  In 1995 and 2000 Canadian Catholic Directory listed in Quebec City, Quebec.  Click here for further info.

BEAHAN:  John (Bishop John Beahen)

Native of Ottawa, Ontario – auxiliary Bishop to Ottawa’s Joseph Aurele Plourde.  Ordained15 June 1946.  St. Augustine’s Seminary 1942-1945.  1949 commenced Canon Law studies at Ottawa’s St. Paul University.  Received Doctorate in Canon Law in Rome 1953. Consecrated bishop 21 June 1977 and served as auxilairy bishop in the Archdiocese of Ottawa.   Frequented St. Brigid’s summer camp in Lowe Quebec – the camp was founed by convicted clerical molester Father Ken Keeler.  Testimony during Keeler sex abuse trial told of young boys at the camp barricading themselves into their dorms to keep Beahen at bay – testimony also related accounts of Beahen and Keeler engaged in sexual activities with each other on the porch of a camp cottage.  There were sex abuse allegations against Beahen – he died before resolution of same.  (Suffered a massive stroke while assisting and giving homily during confirmations in the neighbouring diocese Pembroke, Ontario – died 14 March 1988.)  Click here for further info.

BENNETT:  Anthony Patrick (Father Anthony Patrick Bennett)

priest Diocese of St. John’s Newfoundland.  Ordained 1979.  Left priesthood October 1987.   Around 1989 charged with one count of gross indecency. (Click here for further info)

BENNETT:  Kevin (Father Kevin Bennett)

priest Diocese of St. George’s Newfoundland.  1954-1961 St. Augustine’s Seminary Toronto, Ontario.  March 1989 spent 9 days at Southdown (after he was charged?).  Charged.  Pled GUILTY in 1990 to more than 30 counts of sex abuse of altar boys.  (36 counts of gross indecency and attempted gross indecency)  In 1991 found guilty of additional charge – two months added on to a four year sentence.  29 February 1992 Bishop Raymond Lahey assured authorities that upon release he, Lahey,  would ensure Bennett “has the security and guidance to lead a normal life.”  Click here for further info.

BERGERON:  Jean-Claude (Father Jean-Claude Bergeron CSsR)

Redemptorist priest.  Ordained 1967.  Charged 2010 in relation to allegations of sex abuse at St. Alphonsus seminary in St. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec.  Named in class action lawsuit which went to trail September 2013.  Click here for further info

BERKO:  Matthew (Father Matthew Berko)

priest Eparchy of Toronto.    CONVICTED 1985.  Lawsuit 1990 ordered to pay victim.

BERTHOLD:  George C. (Father George C Berthold)

American priest fired from St. John Seminary, Brighton Mass in Nov. 1995 for sexual advances on seminarian.  Civil suit alleges abuse of another boy in UAS.  In 2002 withdrew from teaching a summer course at Ottawa’s University of St. Paul. Click here for further info

BLANCARD:  Paul (Father Paul Blancard)

priest, Archdiocese of Vancouver, British Columbia.   Ordained 1967. In 1988 to Southdown.   GUILTY plea to charges of  sex abuse of five young girls.  January 1992 sentenced to three years jail.  Officials knew of his paedophilia in 1967.  Click here for further info

BLANCHET:  Herve (Father Herve Blanchet / Father Herve Blanchette)

Redemptorist priest.  Ordained 23 June 1940.  Named in a class action lawsuit filed against a number of Redemptorist priests affiliated with the Redemptorists of the Province of  Ste. Anne de Beaupry, Quebec. Click here for further info

BLONDE:  James (Father James Blonde)

Priest, Diocese of London, Ontario.  Date of ordination unknown.  Lawsuits allege sexual abuse in the 1970s when he was a priest at Blessed Sacrament in Chatham, Ontario.  Click here for further info.

BODNAR:  Donald Orest (Father Donald  Orest Bodnar)

Ukrainian Catholic priest serving in Edmonton, Alberta.  March 2009 – Charges related to sexual abuse of minor female. September 2009 charges stayed by Crown before commencement of trial.  No reason given for the stay.  Click here for further info.

BOLL:  Richard (Father John Richard Boll)

priest and canon lawyer Diocese of London, Ontario.  17 charges 2001. Click here for further info

BONNEVILLE:  Maurice Albert (Father Maurice Albert Bonneville)

priest.    CONVICTED in Winnipeg Manitoba.  (same victim as Gauthier plus two other teenage boys)1991 sentenced to one year.  Told Gauthier that one victim is “better in bed than he is in his books.” Click here for further info

BOONE:  William (Father William Boone)

priest Diocese of Corner Brook Newfoundland.  1990 charged one count gross indecency and one of indecent assault dating from 1966 when Boone was a teacher at Regina High School in Corner Brook.  Charges stayed indefinitely because accuser failed to show. Click here for further info

BORNE:  Robert (Monsignor Robert Borne)

priest – Diocese of Pembroke, Ontario. Ordained 1974.  Former Chancellor of Diocese.  Click here for further info

BOROWEC:  Bohdan (Father Bohdan Borowec)  alternate spelling BOROWIC (Father Bohdan Borowic)

Polish-born priest.  Ordained 1984 in Winnipeg, probably for the Ukrainian Archeparchy of Winnipeg, Manitoba.  Charged February 2011 with sexual assault and kidnapping a 55 year-old woman while vactioning in Hawaii.  CLick here for further info.

BOUCHER:  Brian (Father Brian Boucher)

Priest, Archdiocese of Montreal, Quebec.  Ordained 1996.  January and February 2017 criminal charges laid regarding allegations of sexual assaults dating to between 1994 and 2011.  Click here for further info

BOUCHER:  Monsignor Fernand Boucher

Priest, Diocese of Edmundston, New Brunswick.  Ordained 28 April 1946. Spent 1951 – 1981 as a military chaplain – rose to rank of Brigadier General. Around 1996  charged with theft and indecent assault.  Declared unfit to stand trial.  Click here for further info

BOUDREAU:   James (Father James Boudreau)

Former Father Superior of the Canadian Barnabites. Ordained 1978 as a Barnabite priest (crsp – also known as the Clerics Regular of St. Paul).  In 1996 he left the Barnabites and became incardinated in the Diocese of Hamilton, Ontario )  Charged January 2011.  Click here for further info

BREAU:  Paul (Father Paul Breau)

Priest, ordained 1955 for the Archdiocese of Moncton, New Brunswick.  Fall 2016 lawsuit launched alleging Fathers Paul Breau and Father Yvon Arsenault repeatedly sexually abused (sodomised) a young boy at St. Joseph’s RC Church in Shediac in the early 1980s.  The boy, who was 13-years-old when the abuse began, was at the time a young offender ordered to do yard work on the rectory and/or church grounds:  The two priests were said to responsible for supervising the boy. The abuse spanned a two-year period in the 80s. Click here for further info.

BROMLEY:  Ronald (Father Ronald Bromley)

priest Diocese Grand Falls, Newfoundland.  Ordained 1963. 1997 charged with 3 counts gross indecency involving two victims at reformatory in Whitbourne Newfoundland.  Originally charged with 31 counts against 9 boys for abuse 1970-1984 .  Found guilty of 11.  Sentenced to 6 years.  Charged again in 2002.  Click here for further info

BUCKLE:  Bernard (Father Bernard Buckle)

Priest, Diocese of Corner Brook Labrador Newfoundland.  Ordained 04 June 1961.  Sex abuse charges laid sometime in June or July 2014. Click here for further info

 

BUCKLEY:  Leonard Philip (Father Leonard Buckley)

priest Diocese of Nelson BC.  Ordained 1964.  30 June 1989 GUILTY plea to six counts indecent assault, three of sexual assault, one attempted sexual assault all involving young boys.  Sentenced to five years.  Used tutoring and camping trips to assault young boys some 1,000 times.  Some boys were as young as seven. Click here for further info

BUCKLEY:  Mark Patrick (Father Mark Buckley)

priest Diocese of Peterborough Ontario.  Ordained 1988.  Declared personal bankruptcy in 1997.  Removed from parish only after parishioenrs froze the collection plate.   Warrant out for his arrest in Ontario re charges related to missing parish funds in the Peterborough diocese.  Taken in and given a parish by Calgary’s Bishop Fred Henry and teaching position in Calgary Catholic schools.  Well known within the gay and lesbian community of the Peterborough area.  Frequented gay bars and clubs.  Purchased a $26 tube of lipstick for a drag queen.  (Borrowed over $200,000 from a widow to open and maintain two pet shops in Peterborough prior to bankruptcy.  That was the widow”s nest egg.   Despite his teacher’s salary and win of a dream home in Calgary  Buckley has never repaid the widow, who is now in her 80s and in poor health.) In depth account:  November 2000:  Friends in High Places                                                                   Click here for further inf0

BUDIMAN:  Edwin (Tjeng Bei Yo) (Father Edwin Budiman)

priest Archdiocese of Vancouver British Columbia.  Born in Indonesia.  Studied in the Philipines.  Ordained in Jakarta 1973.  Was in Brazil 1975 to 1993.  Served in Vancuver from 1993.  2006 charged with two criminal counts of invitation to sexual touching and sexual touching of a young person.  The charges relate to sex allegations involving two teenage boys  between 2003 and 2007.  The allegations related to one victim were reported to the diocese in 2005.  The family allegedly did not want to lay charges – Budiman was removed from Holy Angels where he had served.  The second set of allegations relate to allegations of sex abuse which transpired after Budiamn was removed.  During his time in Vancouver Budiman provided support for members of Courage, a Roman Catholic support group for homosexuals who wish to live chaste lives.  Click here for further info.

BURKE:  Joseph (Brother Joseph Burke)

Former Christian Brother.  Teacher. 1991 CONVICTED for offences in at Mount Cashel orphanage in St. John’s, Newfoundland.  Sex-related convictions overturned by the Supreme Court of Canada;  one count of assault causing bodily harm upheld. Click here for further info

BURTON: David (Brother David Burton)

Christian Brother.  1983 – GUILTY plea to sex abuse of boy at Mount Cashel orphanage in St. John’s Newfoundland.  1999 Supreme Court of Newfoundland ruled charges related to victim G.M. would violate Burton’s Charter rights. Click here for further info,

CAHILL:  Frederick (Father Frederick Cahill csb)

Basilian priest. Born in St. John’s Newfoundland.  Ordained 04 July 1951.  Lawsuit launched 2017 alleging abuse by Father Cahill while plaintiff was a student at Calgary Alberta high school in 1982.  Click here for further info

CALLAGHAN: Patrick (Patrick Callaghan)

Ex priest and teacher.  Member of Congregation of the Holy Ghost (Spiritans)  Ordained 1982.  2005 sex assault charge related to allegations of sex assault of 17-year-old boy in Toronto.  Outcome of charges unknown.  Click here for further info

CAMERON:  Father Bernard Cameron (Father Bernie Cameron)

Priest, Diocese Alexandria-Cornwall, Ontario.  Ordained 1958. Sex abase allegations by Ron Leroux.  In Fall 2000, along with then Bishop Eugene Larocque and several diocesan priests, initiated legal action against eight persons or businesses.  The lawsuit did not proceed to discovery.  Died October 2017.   Click here for further info.

CAMPBELL:  Leo (Father Leo Campbell csb)

Basilian priest.  Ordained 1974. Died 2008 shortly after sex abuse allegations reported to a Basilian superior in Detroit, Michigan.  Lawusite filed after his death.  Click here for further info

CAPELLA:  Carlo (Monsignor Carlo Capella)

Italian born Diplomat.  Oraidned1 993.  CANON lawyer. diplomat.  served in nunciaturei n  Washington.  September 2017 Canada-wide warrant issued for  his arrest in relation to  allegations pf accessing, possessing and distributing child pornography while visiting a church (? ) in Windsor, Ontario Christmas 2016.  was also recalled to Vatican after USA State department requested Vatican waive Monsignor Capella’s immunity in relation to some kind of  child porn allegations in the States.  The Vatican refused.  Click here for further info.

CARRAGHER:  Arthur (Father Arthur Carragher CSSp)

Irish-born priest.  Member of the Holy Ghost Fathers/Spiritans. Ordained 1950.  Arrived in Canada in 1971 – joined the TransCanada province of the Spiritans in Canada and served with them in the  Diocese of Hamilton, Ontario.  2001 admitted he sexually abused two brothers while teaching at St. Mary’s College in Rathmines, Ireland in the late 60s, shortly before his departure for Canada.  There were sex abuse allegations from four of his former students.  Click here for further info

CASSISTA:  Herman (Deacon Herman Cassista)

Permanent Deacon with the Archdiocese of Quebec.  Ordained to the Permanent Diaconate in 1972.  March 2012 GUILTY plea to 16 charges related to  sex abuse of young .  Click here for further info

CHABOT:  Howard (Father Howard Chabot)

Priest, Diocese of Pembroke, Ontario.  Ordained 1968.  July 2013 charged with gross indecency and sexual assault.  Click here for further info.

CHARBONNEAU:  Maurice O (Father Maurice Charbonneau; Father Moe Charbonneau)

Roman Catholic priest, Diocese of London, Ontario  Ordained 1994. Removed from parish sometime after allegations made against him Thanksgiving 2017.  In Spring 2018 announcements in various parish bulletins regarding reports of several incidences of  “inappropriate adult relationship” over several years.  Seems to have spent about two years serving in the Diocese of Grand Falls Newfoundland around 2005-2006.  .  Click here for further info

CHARRON: Leo E. (Father Leo Charron)

priest, Diocese of London, Ontario.  Ordained 1945. GUILTY to charges of gross indecency and indecent assault against young boy.  Abuse began when the was 12. Click here for further info

CHEMPOTTICKAL:  Abraham “Jose” Father Abraham Chempottickal mst

Priest with the Missionary Society of St. Thomas (MST), a Syro-Malabar missionary order of priests based in India.  Ordained 27 December 1983. Served in Archdiocese of Grourard McLellan, Alberta from around 2011.  January 2014 charged with sexual assault  of adult femail.  GUILTY plea in absentia July 2014 to charge of common assault.  Click here for further info

CHISHOLM:  Robert J (Father Robert J. Chisholm)

Priest with Archdiocese of Kingston, Ontario.  Ordained 1977.  According to statement from the archdiocese was investigated in mid 90s “for possible violations of appropriate conduct with minors. ”  The archdiocese has apparently recently been made aware of and investigated that report and “found a semblance of truth.”  In September 2019 Father Chisholm was placed on Administrative Leave and his faculties to exercise priestly ministry were revoked indefinitely pending further instructions from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.  Click here for further info.

CHUMIK:  Gerald (Brother Gerald Chumik)

Francisan brother.  Wanted on allegations of sex abuse of 12-year-old boy in Newfoundland in late 70s.   Has eluded prosecuation.   Living in various areas over the years.  Iin 2004 he was discovered at the Santa Barbara Mission, California.  Fransican superiors refuse to oblige him to turn himself in.   Click here for further info.

CLOUTIER: Bernard (Father Bernard Cloutier)

priest – Diocese of Sault Saint Marie, Ontario. CONVICTED.  Sentenced to five years in prison.  Click here for further info

10 November 2009: Priest sentenced to five years and other related articles

CONRAD:  James S. (Father James Conrad)

priest, Diocese of Peterborough, Ontario.  Ordained 1979.  1991 found guilty of stroking a man’s leg in a roadside washroom. May 1992 CONVICTION OVERTURNED by Ontario Court of Appeals.   Click here for further info.

COOPER:  Ian (Father Ian Cooper)

priest Diocese  of Nelson Born in Ireland.  Ordained 1958 (in Ireland).  Parish priest in BC 1958 to 1990.  CONVICTED – 1994 sentenced to four years in prison on conviction of 9 counts indecent assault young males, 5 counts indecent assault young females. one count gross indecency and one count buggery (the latter multiple times on a 7 or 8 year old boy).  Click here for further info

COOPER:  Lawrence (Father Lawrence Cooper/Father Damien)

Priest, Archdiocese of Vancouver, BC.  Ordained 1986.  2012 lawsuit filed alleging sex abuse of teenage girl in the 80s.  Click here for further info

CORMIER:  Alyre (Father Alyre Cormier)

Priest, Archdiocese of Moncton, New Brunswick.  Former teacher, late vocation.  GUILTY plea 1999 to charge related to attempting to hire the sexual service of an undercover male police cadet.  Given an absolute discharge.  Click here for further info

CORMIER:  Edward/ Edourad (Father Edward Cormer)

Priest, Archdiocese of Moncton, New Brunswick.  Ordained 26 May 1949.  Lawsuit filed a Father Edward Cormier as a molester.  Click here for further info

CORRIGAN:  John (Father John Corrigan)

priest Archdiocese of St. John’s Newfoundland.  CONVICTED 1988 of 7 sex crimes against boys age 10 to 13.  Click here for further info

COURNOYER:  Daniel (Brother Daniel Cournoyer fms)

Brother with Marist Brothers, a religious order of brothers.  Charges late 2014 – charges relate to allegations of sex abuse of boys at Patro Lokal, a shelter for young boys  in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec run by the Marist Brothers.  Click here for further info

COTE:  Hector (Father Hector Cote)

Viatorian priest.  Ordained 1940.  Taught at Cornwall Ontario’s now defunct Classical College.  Lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by Cote settled out of court.  Died 1994.   Click here for further info

COUTURE: Robert (Father Robert Couture)

Priest Diocese of London, Ontario.  April 2013 charged with theft over $5,000.  Click here for further info

CRAMPTON:  Dale (Father Dale Crampton)

priest – Archdiocese of Ottawa, Ontario.  Ordained 1963.  CONVICTED  on charges related to sex abuse of 7 altar boys age 9 to 13 between years 1972 and 1983.  Click here for further info

CROMIEN:  Thomas (formerly Father Thomas Cromien)

former Spritian priest (Congregation of the Holy Ghost)  2001 GUILTY plea to one count of indecent assault related to 13-year-old boy in Woodstock Ontatio in late 70s or early 80s.  Left the priesthood and married prior to charges.   On appeal sentenced to 20 motnhs in custody. Click here for further info

CROTEAU: Fernand (Monsignor Fernand Croteau)

priest Diocese of St. Paul, Alberta.  Ordained 1953.  1990 NOT GUILTY to charges dating to the 60s.  Seems that subsequently in 1991 Judge threw out sex abuse charges (sodomizing a young boy from age 6 to 17,) At some point plead GUILTY to   five counts of indecently assaulting the latter complainants three sisters, one who was age three when the molesting started.  He also admitted to sexual relationship with the complainants mother as well as a homosexual encounter with another priest.   Click here for further info

CYR:  Alban (Brother Alban Cyr fic)

Canadian-born Religious Brother with the  Brothers of Christian Instruction.  Scoutmaster at St. Mary’s International School in Japan.   Click here for further information

DEJAEGER:  Eric (Father Eric Dejaeger omi)

Oblate priest.  Belgian by birth.  Came to Canada 1973.  Ordained 1978.  1990  GUILTY plea to eight counts sexual assault and one count indecent assault –  victims both boys and girls – offences occuring over the previous 6 years.   Further charges in 1991 and 1993.   1995 failure to appear in court – warrant for arrest –  fled to Belgium.  Deported 2011.  Click here for further info

DEKIEVIT:  Ted (Father Ted Dekievit)

priest Archdiocese of Regina Saskatchewan.   1993 GUILTY PLEA to one charge of gross indecency.  Treatment in United States. Click here for further info

DEL BIANCO:  Gabriele (Gabriele Del Bianco)

ex priest.  Diocese London, Ontario.  Ordained 1982.  Left priesthood 1996 after he was reported and sent for evaluation.  April 2011 – charged and sued.  Click here for further info

DE LOS ANGELESE CORTAZAR:  Javier (Father Javier De Los Angeles Cortazar)

Priest.  Ordained 27 December 1996,-  was originally ordained for the Archdiocese of Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico.  Incardinated in the Diocese of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan 18 August 2014.  Charged with sexually assaulting another priest at a cabin near Goodsoil Sask in 2014.  Click here for further info

DE MAUPEOU:  Philippe (Father Philippe de Maupeou)

member of Communaute du Pain de Vie serving in the Archdiocese of Montreal, Quebec.  GUILTY plea 2007 to charges related to sexual touching 10-year-old girl in 2002.   2008 financed by Archdiocese of Montreal to study canon law at St. Paul U in Ottawa Ontario.  Click here for further info.

DESCHAMPS:  Gaetan (Father Gaetan Deschamps)

priest in Dioceses of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan & Alexander-Cornwall, Ontario.  Ordained 1956.   Former professor at St. Mary’s College in Prince Albert (Saskatchewan), then suddenly serving as a hospital chaplain in Prince Albert.  Spent time in Southdown Ontario for reasons as yet unknown. Click here for further information

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DESCHAMPS: Marcel (Father Marcel Deschamps)

Priest Diocese of Gatineau-Hull.  CONVICTED 1992 – three young boys in the early 80s.  Sentenced to 9 months in prison.  Claimed to be an alcoholic with NO paedophilic  tendencies when sober, but attracted to young boys when drunk.  After his release from jail was back working for the diocese in an administrative capacity.  Click here for further info.

DESCHENES:  Rino (Rino Deschenes)

Ex-priest, Diocese of Edmunston, New Brunswick.  Ordained 1965.  GUILTY PLEA plea November 2014 to charges related to sex abuse of three former altar boys in late 60s.  According to media reports married in 1997.  Click here for further info

DESGRANDCHAMPS:   Jacques (Father Jacques Desgrandchamps osm)

Priest. Ordained 25 August 1963. Member of the Servites order (osm) – also known as Friars of the Servants of Mary and Servants de Marie.  Admitted having sex with students while he was a teacher at Notre-Dame des Servites College in Ayers Cliff Quebec s during the mid-1970s. Click here for further info

DESILETS:  Paul (Father Paul Desilet csv)

Viatorian priest.  Ordained 1963.  Taught at Cornwall Ontario’s now defunct Classical College.  Served in Archdiocese of Boston, Mass.  In 1985 was reported to his Canadian superiors as a molester.  Returned to Canada at some point.  In 2002 indicted in the Archdiocese of Boston sex abuse scandal.  2006 – GUILTY plea to charges related to 18 male victims dating from 19 78 to 1984.  Click here for further info. 

DESJARDINS:  Omer (Father Omer Desjardins omi)

Oblate priest.  Ordained 1978.  Taught at College Mathieu, Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan.  Served in Manitoba for many years, many of those as chaplain at St. Boniface hospital in Winnipeg Manitoba.  GUILTY plea 23 January 2015 to abuse of 10-year-old girl in Saskatchewan  1978.  Click here for further info

DESLAURIER:  Gilles (Father Gilles Deslaurier)

priest Diocese Alexndria-Cornwall.  Ordained 1970.  Formerly from Sudbury Ontario, arrived with Bishop Adolphe Proulx when Proulx was installed as Bishop of Diocese of Alexandria (Alexandria-Cornwall)  Initially served as Master of Ceremonies for Proulx.  After his ordination Deslaurier functioned as secretary to Proulx. Endless talk about the sexual relationship between the pair.  1986 faced multiple sex-related charges involving five boys between 1978 and 1984.  CONVICTED.   Sentenced to two years probation  reporting to probation officer and Bishop Proulx. Back saying Mass in various parishes in the province of Quebec.  Became incardinated in Diocese of St. Jerome, Quebec   Further information here.

DESMOND:  Thomas F. (Father Thomas Desmond) (Father Barry Desmond)

priest Diocese of Kamloops, British Columbia.  Ordained 1965.  Charged 1989 in relation to alleagtion of sex assault of that year.  Insufficient evidence to proceed to trial. It seems he did not function as a priest after the charges were laid. Click here for further info

DESPRES:  Irois (Father Irois Despres)

Priest, Archdiocese of Moncton, New Brunswick.  Ordained 1954.  Allegations of sex abuse reported in 2012 – dates of alleged abuse not released.  Click here for further info.

DESROCHERS:  Albert (Father Albert Desrochers osm)

Servite priest.  Ordained 1941.  GUILTY plea 1998 for sexual abuse of four brothers.  Click here for further info

DEVEAU: Raoul (Father Raoul Deveau)

priest Diocese of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Ordained 1943 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Now deceased. Lawsuits launched re allegations of sex abuse of young girls. Click here for further info.

DOHEY:  Wayne (Father Wayne Dohey)

Priest, Diocese of St. John’s Newfoundland.  Ordained 1987.  2007 charged – charges dismissed after preliminary hearing by judge who did not believe that Father Dohey had a relationship of trust with the victim.  Click here for further info

DOIRON:  Yvon (Father Yvon Doiron)

priest Diocese of Bathurst, New Brunswick.  Ordained  1981. March 2011 charged with theft-related charges and stealing over $100,000 while serving in Dalhousie, New Brunswick between 1997 and 2006.  Doiron was also sued in 2007 for not pyaing back $1110,000 he had borrowed from a Dalhousie resident.  Click here for further info

DOUCET: Daniel L. (Father Daniel Doucet)

priest Diocese of Antigonish.  Ordained 1966.  1990 four charges indecent assault against teenage boy in 1970s.  ACQUITTED after evidence that RCMP may have interfered by offering to reduce criminal charges against the complaint in exchange for testifying.  Click here for further info

DOUCETTE:  Gilles (Father Gilles Doucette)

priest Diocese of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.  Ordained 1962.   07 July 2000 found GUILTY – charges of indecent assault against 15-year-old  boy committed between 1986 and 1987.  18 month conditional sentence plus community service and participate in a rehabilitation program.  Click here for further info 

DOUGHTY:  Glenn (Brother Glenn Doughty)

Oblate brother.  Final vows:  September 1966.   Served at Kuper Island Residential School British Columbia 1967-1986. GUILTY plea.

June 1991 and June 2000 CONVICTED for sexual abuse of young boys – total of 40 charges involving approximately 17 native boys ages 6 to 18 at St. Joseph’s residential School Williams Lake BC and Kuper Island Residential School.  Currently lived in Ottawa doing work for the Oblates. Click here for further info

D’SOUZA:  Malcolm (Father Malcolm D’Souza)

Priest, Diocese of Calgary, Alberta.  Ordained 2002.  Late vocation (in is mid 40s when ordained).  Originally from Bombay India.  October 2018:  Placed on administrative leave following sexual misconduct allegations involving two minors and several adults.  Police contacted by diocese.  Click here for further info

DUARTE: John Duarte (Joao Jose Correirra Duarte)

priest Diocese of London Ontario 1995 to 2003.  Apparently left the priesthood in 2003(?).  At some point took up residence in the Dominican Republic and founded a mission.  Sex abuse charges of young boys span before, during and after Duarte’s years in the priesthood.    CONVICTED.  April 2010 sentenced to 18 months.  Click here for further info

October 2009: Articles related to the charges against John Duarte 

DUBE:  Rene (Father Rene Dube)

Priest Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall, Ontario.  Ordained 1969.  ACQUITTED. Click here for further info.

DUFAULT:  Norbert (Father Norbert Dufault omi)

Oblate priest.  Ordained  21 January 1953.  2004 GUILTY plea to sex abuse of eight native girls during the ’50s and ’60s.  Click here for further info

DUGAS:  Normand (Father Normand Dugas)

Priest, Diocese of Bathurst, New Brunswick.  Ordained 31 May 1960.  Lawsuit launched  Fall 2016 – Click here for further info.

DWYER:  Andrew A. (Father Andrew Dwyer)  (Father Andy Dwyer)

Priest, Diocese of London, Ontario.  Ordained 1979.

– removed from duties September 2018 after diocese received “credible” allegations which date back many years.  Apparently an internal investigation is being conducted by the diocese.  It is unknown if the police have or have not been contacted.  Click here for further information

EASON:  John (Father John Eason)

Diocese Vancouver  Ordained 1968.  1994, one charge indecent assault from 21-year-old complainant related to incident in 1980. Plea of not guilty.  CONVICTED.  Click here for further info

EGAN:  Paul  (Father Paul Egan)

priest Diocese Charlottetown, PEI.  Ordained 1968.  August 1995 gross indecency and indecent assault charges dating to 1974 – 1977.  Charges dropped Nov. 1995 due to a “a change in circumstances involving pertinent evidence of witnesses.” Click her for further info

ELISCARD:  Jean-Level (Father Jean-Level Eliscard)

Haitian-born priest.  Ordained 1992 for the Diocese of Les Cayes, Haiti.  COnvicted 1992 for sexual abuse of 13-year-old girl in Trenton, New Jersey.  Sentenced to tree yers probation.  Some time in late 90s surfaced in Quebec in the Diocese of Hyacinthe and Archdiocese of Montreal.  Click here for further info

ENGLISH:  Edward Patrick (Brother Edward Patrick English)

Christian Brother.  April 1989 – Charged with five counts indecent assault.  Charged in Mono Mills Ontario.  CONVICTED.  Click here for further info

ENSEY:  Father Eric Ensey

American priest, member of the Society of St. John which was once based in the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania.  Allegations of sex abuse at St. Gregory’s Academy in Scranton. Many of the boys attending St. Greg’s were Canadian.   Lawsuit settled.  Is either defrocked or in the process of being defrocked.  In 2011 was fund-raising for the Society of St. John in Vancouver, British Columbia and befriending parishioners.  Click here for further information.

EPOCH:  George (Father George Epoch)

Jesuit priest – Diocese of Sault Ste Marie.  Allegations by 59 men who alleged sexual abuse as children.  Served ib Cape Crocker, Ontario. In all 97 say they were abused by Epoch.  Epoch died of heart failure in 1986 before charges were brought forward.

ETIENNE:  Jean-Claude (Father Jean-Claude Etienne)

Priest, Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.  Ordained 1961. 2008 Lawsuit settled with two men who endured sex abuse as children at the hands of Father Etienne. Click here for further info

FALLONA: Michael (Father Michael Fallona csb)

Basilian priest. Ordained 1967. Sued 2009 – allegations sex abuse of 13-year-old girl. Click here for further info

FARRELL:  Kenneth (Father Kenneth Farrell)

Priest Diocese of Hamilton, Ontario,  Ordained 1962. Served in Diocese of Nelson BC for a number of years.  Charges 1994 related to his time in the Diocese of Nelson.  Outcome of charges unknown.  Click here for further info

FAUCHER:  Father Jacques Faucher

Priest, Archdiocese of Ottawa, Ontario,  Ordained 1960.  February 2013 charged with one count each of gross indecency and indecent assault on a male.  The allegations date to 1971-1973 involving a seven-year-old boy.  Click here for further info.
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FEDY: Magnus J (Father Magnus Fedy C.R.))

Resurrectionist priest. Ordained 1929. Taught at Scollard Hall, North Bay, Ontario for years. Sued 2008. Possibly charged and convicted many years ago. Click here for further info .

FINNIN:  Pius E (Father Pius Finnin)

priest, originally for Diocese Bathurst, New Brunswick.  Ordained 1951.  Relocated to Archdiocese of Regina.  2007 lawsuit alleges sex abuse of boy in Saskatchewan 1963.  Click here for further info

FISHER:  John (Father John Fisher)

Priest Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie.  Ordained 1968.  Founder of Vita Way Farm addiction treatment centre.  Work with young  drug addicts earned him the Ontario medal for Good Citizenship.   October 1989 charged sexually assault on 17-year-old who was a client at the treatment centre. Click here for further info.

FLAHERTY:  Timothy (Father Timothy Flaherty)

priest Diocese of Thunder Bay, Ontario.  Ordained 1949.  Charged with sexual abuse Four counts indecent assault and one count sexual assault between years 1969 and 1989.  1991 CONVICTED.  Two year sentence. Click here for further info

 FOLEY:  Brendan (Father Brendan Foley)

priest Diocese of St. John’s Newfoundland.  1989 – seven counts sexual assault of teenage boys in the Burrin area 1982 to 1985.  Known as the Singing Priest.  1990 -GUILTY.  (Left Priesthood in 1986)  Click her for further info

FOLEY: David (Father David Foley csc)

priest – Holy Cross Father (Congregation of the Holy Cross).  Ordained 1965.Taught at Notre Dame College School in Welland, Ontario.  1984 GUILTY plea to two charges of theft.  Admitted he used some of the money he stole from Bingos to rent an apartment in Buffalo, N.Y. to house his homosexual lover.  Click here for further information

FOLEY:  James D.  (Father James D. Foley)

Priest, Archdiocese of Boston, Mass.  Ordained 02 February 1960 by Cardinal Cushing.  Recycled to Diocese of Calgary Alberta in 1966 after having an affair with a young married woman.  Spent two years in Calgary.  Fathered two children.  Click here for further info.

FORTIER:  Benoit (Father Benoit Fortier, (also known as Father Bernard Fortier)

priest diocese Sault Ste. Marie Ontario.  Ordained 1941.  2003 GUILTY plea to one count of sexual assault and one of gross indecency committed against a boy in the Sturgeon Falls area in 1986.  Claimed he was in ealry stages of Altzeimers and sentenced to a daily curfew and ordered  not have any contact with his victim and not be alone with anyone under the age of 16.  2006 found unfit to stand trial on additional sex charge.  Click here for further info.

FOURNIER: Armand (Father Armand Fournier ssm)

Montortian priest.  Ordained 1954.  Founded camp for boys in Val Des Bois, Quebec 1964. Lived in rectory of Notre Dames de Lourdes Roman Catholic Church in Vanier (Ottawa), Ontario for most of his priesthood  2011 lawsuit alleging bause of young boy at the camp in early 70s.  Click here for further info

FREDETTE:  Joseph (Father Joseph Fredette)

American priest.  1994 arrested in Jaillettesville, New Brunswick on charges stemming from sex abuse of two boys in Massachusetts. Fredette had been working at a hermitage he founded in New Brunswick called Hermits of the Broken Heart.  Prior to that he had been removed as pastor at Sty. Timothy’s Church in Adamsville, New Brunswick (Archdiocese of Moncton, New Brunswick)

FRENCH:  Edward (Edward French)

Christian Brother.  Charged June 1989 in Vancouver with one count indecent assault dating 1973 to 1976 at Mount Cashel orphanage, St. John’s, Newfoundland.  CONVICTED.  One year sentence. Click here for further info

26 Responses to Accused: A to F

  1. Vince Sanregret says:

    Thank you for all the hard work it must have been to compile this list. All 3 of the priests I knew growing up are on it! I wonder why the media ie CBC hasn’t covered this story?

    Thank you

  2. Denise says:

    I saw the names of 3 priests, I knew very well. It is very sad, they are not the ones, who hurt our 2 boys, back 30 years ago. May he rest in peace.

  3. Justice says:

    What about those who were church workers within the church (like cleaners or assistants)? Or those who were adult alter servers? What can be done about those guys who preyed on innocent children?
    Thank you for all your hard work on this blog. It is good to see that the ones who have suffered and continue to suffer from the trauma that was inflicted on them have not been forgotten.

  4. Mervan Struthers says:

    Need a response. My dad was the herdsman in the early 60’s what I am wonder why I wet the bed after I stand at brothers in the middle doom.

  5. Sylvia says:

    You lost me Mervan. Are there typos in there? It’s making no sense to me. Could you perhaps rewrite your comment using different words?

  6. Mervan Struthers says:

    What do you mean? I stayed in the small room at the back they where called drooms.

  7. Sylvia says:

    The small room at the back where? In a school?

    Which brothers?

  8. Justice says:

    To Serve & Protect
    RCMP to review 25,000 more sexual assault cases
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/unfounded-sexual-assault-rcmp-police-1.4449342

  9. Sean says:

    I was there. (St. Johns) Some serious names missing. Thanks for all the work on the site.

  10. Tweedie says:

    Having read the gravity of many of the assaults and the pathetic sentances meted out to these predictors, I conclude that the punishment is insufficient. The targets … particularly the more vulnerable minors … many who are now damaged adults, must feel like the crimes perpetrated against them have not been adequatly addressed. If I was one of those victims, I would be VERY upset. The whole issue is very creepy.

    • Anon says:

      This CBC report for which you have included a link is incomplete. George Epoch was molesting altar boys in Schreiber Ontario as far back as 1959. I know, I was one.
      What I find most interesting is the cover up by E.Q. Jennings. A subsequent parish priest Father Cano was being teased by us (Grade 8 pupils ) in 1961 about how nice Epoch was. Father Cano lost his cool and said that “One day we would know about him.” Meaning good old George.
      My point….the bishop and others knew what Epoch was doing. All that was done is he was sent away. Shortly thereafter Epoch was abusing kids in Spanish. And E.Q.? He had a school named after him.

  11. Servant says:

    There was another Kelowna priest, Father John C. Fidelis Forrester. He taught at Immaculata High School, in the diocese of Nelson, for a time in the 1970’s…I believe for one year…he was from Seattle…and left very suddenly. I do not know if anything was done to investigate any abuse that took place in Kelowna. Funny thing there is little mention of him being in Kelowna, except for one listing in one forum:

    https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/snapsurvivorsnetwork/fr-john-forrester-kelowna-seattle-puyallup-burien-t1892.html

    He is also mentioned here: (You have to do a search of his name)

    http://bishop-accountability.org/member/psearch.jsp

  12. Anonymous says:

    Father Andy Dwyer. Not sure when the allegations in the linked article were but I remember he abused me about 20 years ago when I was 8ish at St. John the Divine Parish in London Ontario. He was at St. John the Divine from 1997-2000 according to the parish website.

  13. Réal Fradette says:

    Hi,

    My name is Réal Fradette, journalist for l’Acadie Nouvelle newspaper in Caraquet, NB.

    I would like to have information about the priest Louis de Gonzague Daigle. The City of Tracadie would be change the name of a street Louis G. Daigle because some victims are upset to see a criminal priest on this sign.

  14. Sean says:

    Father Harry Brydon. Found guilty in 2015. From Chatham Ontario, Canada.

  15. Mike Fitzgerald says:

    Sean – was he not an Anglican priest? Mike.

  16. Sylvia says:

    Sean, Mike F is correct. Father Harry Brydon was an Anglican priest. Here is an external link to a 2014 article. He was eventually (2016) sentenced to 12 months house arrest for sexually abusing several young boys.

    • Anon1234 says:

      He prayed mostly on the boys from the 1985 confirmation class at St Paul’s in Chatham. Once the issue was raised he was moved to Harrow I believe… Would be nice to see Anglican ministers and their supervisors who hid them added to the list

  17. bc says:

    Church Militant has just posted audio of convicted Father Robert Deland of the Diocese of Saginaw Michigan grooming in 2018 a troubled 17 year old male victim he was counselling. The victim was wearing a wire under police supervision. In this matter, despite it`s many representations the Diocese stonewalled investigators. Father Deland did not contest the charges and is now serving his sentence.

    source here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJxWOLj-pTU

  18. bc says:

    AP finds that 1700 of 2000 credibly accused priests are living without much supervision; free to abuse vulnerable persons :
    https://apnews.com/197c6234838f420ab693517fb49a215e

  19. bc says:

    Richard Brassard

    Chair of the Northeastern Catholic District School board (northern Ontario) has been charged by the OPP with accessing child pornography contrary to section 163.1(4.1) of the Criminal Code.

    https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/68-year-old-school-board-official-charged-for-child-porn-1.4620613

  20. bc says:

    Salesian Rev. Luk Delft
    Vatican’s Caritas Internationalis (i.e. Charity International) which has new improved & updated policies to keep all safe since 2018, assigned convicted clerical pervert in 2017 as Director of Central African Republic mission.
    WAPO story here:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/central-african-republic-pedophilia-concerns-known-in-2017/2019/11/23/122afdc6-0e0a-11ea-8054-289aef6e38a3_story.html

    But don’t worry: the Vatican has initiated a canonical cover-up; and it has sent three squadrons of guardian angel in the area to protect the vulnerable children.

    • bc says:

      CNN tracked, found and interviewed Salesian Father Luk Delft in Central Africa and it talked to one of his victims too. The young man is very brave but Father Delft ain`t exactly your heroic missionary type of fellow: more like total coward looser pervert with a licence (in Latin) to abuse from the Roman Catholic Church. Vatican charity that hired the convicted clerical pervert doesn`t want to be accountable (it can hardly be blamed as there is no way to know who`s a clerical pervert and who`s not) and blames the Salesians (who knew about their beloved Salesian pervert brother).
      Good Vatican official says Holy See has no oversight of bad bad religious orders…

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTZuxRYzMCo

  21. bc says:

    6,754
    That`s the number of U.S. Catholic clergy that have been deemed credibly accused of sexual abuse or misconduct according to Propublica’s new searchable database.

    https://projects.propublica.org/credibly-accused/

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