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Kenneth Keeler (Father Ken Keeler)

Priest, Archdiocese of Ottawa, Ontario.  Ordained 1971. Founder of St. Brigid’s Summer Camp for needy children (Low, Quebec).   Victims testified at trial that they saw Father Keeler at the camp having sexual with Bishop John Beahen.  GUILTY plea 1993 to charges of sex abuse of young boys in the late 70’s and early 80s.  The boys were 12 to 15 years of age when they were molested.  Keeler was sentenced to 8 months, and was out in a half-way house in less than eight weeks.

Still has his faculties to say Mass and hear confessions, and has been doing so for years, first as Chaplain for the Sisters of Charity at the Mount Saint Vincent Motherhouse in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and more recently, since the old motherhouse was torn down, for the Sisters at Caritas, also in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  It is not unusual for members of the public to be in attendance at Masses, particularly at funerals.

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The Orator, January – February 1993:  Denial Denial Denial and May-August 1993 :  “a Travesty of Justice”

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Update

06 April 2016:  BLOG  She did what all responsible adults would do

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18 April 2017:  Late Ottawa Catholic bishop who managed sex abuse complaints now accused of sex abuse

18 October 2010:  Like everyone else 30 years ago, the Church failed to understand paedophilia

10 May 1978:  Walk with Diefenbaker up for grabs at auction (Article re auction for camp)

 

10 May 1976:   “Now,  that’s a banana…”  (article re auction for camp)

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Archbishops of OTTAWA Archdiocese from time of Father Keeler’s ordination:  Joseph-Aurèle Plourde (02 January 1967 – September 1989) ; Marcel André J. Gervais (Coadjutor Archbishop: 13 May 1989 – Archbishop: 27 September 1989 – 14 May 2007); Terrence Thomas Prendergast, S.J. (14 May 2007 – – )

Auxiliary Bishops in OTTAWA Archdiocese from shortly before Father Ken Keeler’s ordination to presentJoseph Raymond Windle  (15 November 1960 to 23 Jan 1969);  René Audet  (21 May 1963 – 03 January 1968); John Michael Beahen  (11 May 1977 – 14 March 1988); Gilles Bélisle (11 May 1977 – 19 August 1993); Brendan Michael O’Brien (06 May 1987 – 05 May 1993);  Frederick Joseph Colli (19 December 1994 – 02 February 1999); Paul Marchand, S.M.M. (31 May 1993 to 08 March 1999)

Archbishops of Archdiocese of HALIFAX from time of Father Keeler’s hire as a ChaplainAustin-Emile Burke  (8 July 1991 Appointed – 13 Jan 1998 Retired);  Terrence Thomas Prendergast, S.J. (30 June 1998 – 14 May 2007 –  Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario) ;  Anthony Mancini (18 Oct 2007 –  )

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The following information is taken from Canadian Catholic Church Directories (CCCD) which I have on hand, the 198o Ontario Catholic Church Directory (OCD80), two editions of the 1993 Orator (Orator), media (M), Facewbook (F), and personal information (P).  The gaps in years only mean that I do not have information on his whereabouts at that time.  If anyone can fill in any of the gaps please contact me.

 

March 2016:  vacationing in  Progressio Mexico (P)

March (?) 2014: vacationing in Progressio Mexic0 (P)

December 2014:  Retiring – will move to PEI. (F)

1993-2013:  Address for Ottawa Diocesan Centre (CCCD)

2013:  Chaplain at Caritas, a Retirement home for the Sisters of Charity, Halifax, Nova Scotia (P)

1997:

July 14, 1997
MARTELL, Sister Mary Cephas (Mary Felicite) – 94, Mount St. Vincent Motherhouse, Halifax, died July 12, 1997, in Mount St. Vincent Motherhouse. Born in L’Ardoise, Richmond Co., she was a daughter of the late Pacien and Rose (Samson) Martell. She entered the Sisters of Charity, Halifax, in 1931, and made her religious profession in 1934. For over 40 years, she served the communities of Renton, Washington, British Columbia and Nova Scotia. She retired to Mount St. Vincent Motherhouse in 1975. Surviving are brother, Alphonse; several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by sister, Lena; brothers, Amable, Ephraim, Edmund, Bertrum, Richard, Angus. Visitation 3-8 p.m. today, Mass of Christian burial 10 a.m. Tuesday, both in Mount St. Vincent Motherhouse and chapel, Rev. Kenneth Keeler officiating. Burial to follow in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Lower Sackville. In lieu of flowers, donations to Mother Berchmans Centre Ltd.

around 1994:    Chaplain to the sisters at Mount Saint Vincent Motherhouse, Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Those who hired him for the ‘job’ allegedly knew he had a criminal record. Whether or not the sisters who were subjected to his spiritual care knew that their chaplain was a molester is also unknown

03 May 1993 or sooner: After serving less than eight weeks of his sentence was living in a half-way house in Ottawa and free to come and go as he pleased (Orator)

15 March 1993:  Sentencing hearing (Orator).

sentenced to eight months jail and two years probation.  (The Crown, Mr. Morin, tried to appeal the sentence.  The Ontario Attorney General said ‘no.’  Those were the years of the NDP government. The Ag would have been Marion Boyd)

05 February 1993:  Patrick Brennan, a good friend of Father Keeler who worked at the summer camp, entered a guilty plea  (M) The victim was one of the the of the Keeler victims.

18 January 1993:   During Mass a homily at St. John the Apostle, Archbishop Grevais apologized to the victims (M)

13 January 1993: GUILTY plea

October 1991:  CHARGED.  Removed from St. John the Apostle, Nepean, Ontario (CCCD)

Summer 1991:  Nothing has happened.  Victim decided he has no option but to go to police (Orator)

January 1991: Victim meets Archbishop Marcel Gervais to tell of sex abuse at hands of Father Keeler (Orator)

Christmas 1990:  Four victims approach Father Keeler hoping that the priest would acknowledge his wrongdoing and seek help.  Keeler denied. (Orator)

1985-1986:  Pastor, Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church, Wellington St., Ottawa (CCCD)

1981-83:  Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church, Ottawa (M)

molesting a boy during these years at Holy Rosary (M)

1980:  Co-Pastor with Father P. Baxter, St. Martin De Porres Roman Catholic Church, Ottawa, Ontario (OCD80 )

1977:  appointed co-pastor at St. Martin De Porres Roman Catholic Church, Ottawa, Ontario – effective 01 September 1977 (Clergy Appointments, Archdiocese of Ottawa 11 July 1977)

1973-74:  St. Brigid’s Roman Catholic Church, Ottawa (Pastor Father Joseph T. O’Donnell) (CCCD)

1960s:  attended St. Pius prep seminary in Ottawa (M)

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Church in ‘denial’

Ottawa Sun

Sunday, 23 November 1997

Jacki Leroux, Ottawa Sun

[This article ran as an insert in conjunction with” Sins of the Fathers”]

Victims of sexual abuse by members of the Catholic church are far from surprised at how little monitoring the church does of past offenders.

“There’s still major denial.” Says Chris Fuoco, one of five victims of Father Ken Keeler, who was convicted of indecently assaulting five teen boys in 1993 in Ottawa.

“They figure if they forget about it, it will all just go away.  They’re definitely not protecting the innocent,” he says.

At Keeler’s trial, court heard how Fuoco – today 28 years old and living in Vancouver – only went to police after Keeler’s bishop dismissed his allegations and accused Fuoco and a friend of lying.

And even after Keeler was convicted, no one from the church ever apologized to Fuoco – something he and other victims are still angry about today.

“They’re self-righteous.  They never came out and said ‘It was wrong and we’re sorry,” he says.

“In all professions there’s a code of ethics.  There doesn’t seem to be in the church.

“If I’m a teacher and I’m convicted of something like that, my career is over.  My employer has to hold me accountable,” he says.

Although relieved to hear Keeler is currently living in a Halifax convent with elderly nuns – not serving in a parish or working with kids – Fuoca still thinks someone should be keeping an eye on him.

“I’m not for banishing them to the dregs of society, but how (is the church) ensuring they’re not abusing someone?  They’re not.”

His friend Dale Pegg, says he was also abused at Keeler’s church run summer camp by the camp cook.  The man was a friend of the priest who attended St. Pius’ preparatory seminary with Keeler in the 1960s.

The charges against the man ended up being dropped due to lack of evidence.

“I’m not for making people go about wearing sandwich boards saying ‘I’m a pedophile,’ but the church, because they’re shown a lack of responsibility in the past, should take responsibility for their priests,: says Pegg.

“They have a responsibility to make sure those who have offended in the past are kept away from situations where they’re inclined to re-offend,” he says.

Sylvia Smith also believes the church is only out to protect its priests, not its parishioners.

“That’s what they do – they move them around,” says Smith, mother of one of the victims of Father Dale Crampton, convicted in 1987 of indecently assaulting teenage altar boys at a Nepean parish in the late ‘70s and early 80s.

“Even with Crampton, we know that when one family complained to the bishop, he was moved to another) church.  And when they found out what had happened at the church he was moved to another one).

“Obviously, nothing’s changed.  It’s still going on,” she says.

Smith found it frightening that Crampton was working in the marriage tribunal in the London, Ont., diocese, and finds it even more so that he’s now back in Ottawa.

“He worked on the marriage tribunal with troubled families, giving troubled children support,” she says.

“It concerns me because I don’t believe pedophiles can be cured.

“I think the community has a right to know where they are,” she says.

So, too, does Eddy Graveline, molested by one of the most brutal Christian Brothers, Leo Monette, at St. Joseph’s Training School for Boys in Alfred, Ontario.

“They shouldn’t even be on the streets.” He says.

“They’re child molesters.  They’ve been doing that all their life.  They’re not going to suddenly stop just because they go to court and get a slap on the wrist.

“I know what they do and how the church hides it.  They’re just as guilty (as the abusers) for not checking on them.” He says.

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 No appeal of indecent assault sentence planned

The Ottawa Citizen

15 May 1993

The Ontario attorney-general’s office has decided against an appeal of the eight-month sentence imposed on Rev. Kenneth Keeler, of Ottawa, for indecently assaulting five teenage boys.

Keeler was sentenced March 15 after pleading guilty to offences committed while he was an Ottawa priest and director of a summer camp in Low, Que. in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Andre Marin, assistant Crown attorney, had sought a prison term of at least two years, and said in March that the Crown intended to appeal the sentence.

But he said Thursday that the attorney-general’s office in Toronto dropped the appeal after reviewing Keeler’s case and other sentences for similar offences.

Keeler was released from the regional detention centre May 3 and is living in an Ottawa halfway house. He spends his time away from the halfway house looking for volunteer work.

Keeler is not functioning as a Catholic priest, but could end up volunteering at an archdiocesan social service project, said Guy Levac, spokesman for Archbishop Marcel Gervais.

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Abusive priest jailed; Crown to appeal length of sentence

The Ottawa Citizen

16 March 1993

Fallen idol and disgraced Roman Catholic priest Kenneth Keeler apologized to his victims Monday, then was jailed eight months for indecent assault.

But Ottawa’s Crown Attorney’s office, which had sought a prison term of at least two years, is appealing the sentence.

Keeler had pleaded guilty to six charges for assaulting five teenage boys while he was an Ottawa priest and director of a summer camp in Low, Que. in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

“I wish to say I accept full responsibility for my actions, particularly for the breach of trust, Keeler told the court.

Keeler, 49, said he was sorry for putting the victims through the court process. He pleaded guilty in January only after his trial had begun and after three of the victims, now adults, testified against him.

Witnesses at both the trial and the sentencing hearing described the high regard in which parishioners held Keeler. He founded a summer camp, inspired people to return to the Church and was a role model who straightened out several troubled youths.

“We’ve heard this was a man who had impeccable, good character, said defence lawyer William Carroll. “We now know there was a dark side to that character.

The most serious assault, court was told, involved Keeler masturbating a teenager to ejaculation and telling him he was ridding him of “bad spirits.

Assistant Crown attorney Andre Marin said it was paradoxical to raise Keeler’s high standing in the community in his defence, because this only highlighted how serious the breach of trust was.

“All the good work, all the contributions to society cannot wash away that extreme breach (of trust), said Justice Hector Soubliere.

Soubliere said there was no difference between Keeler’s crime and that of Nepean Catholic priest Dale Crampton. In 1986, Crampton pleaded guilty to molesting seven boys during a 10-year period. The Ontario Court of Appeal imposed an eight- month sentence on Crampton after an Ottawa judge suspended sentence.

One of Keeler’s victims said while he does not want Keeler to be punished as an example to others, he is “disheartened by the sentence. “It may appear not worthwhile for future victims.

The man said he accepts Keeler’s apology and hopes he “didn’t get it from a greeting card. A court order bans the identification of Keeler’s victims.

Carroll called five character witnesses who testified Monday about the great contributions Keeler has made.

But Marin also read impact statements from the victims and their families. They described the harassing telephone calls they have received from Keeler supporters and the toll on their health.

Archbishop Marcel Gervais apologized Monday to the victims and their families.

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 Ottawa man guilty of sex assault

The Ottawa Citizen

05 Feb 1993

A friend of convicted child molester Rev. Kenneth Keeler was found guilty Thursday of assaulting one of Keeler’s victims a decade ago.

Patrick Brennan, 46, of Piccadilly Avenue, Ottawa, pleaded guilty to the charge that he had fondled the boy’s genitals as he slept beside him in bed at his home.

The victim, now 27 and working as a youth recreation worker in Vancouver, told police of the incident in 1991 when he first recounted Keeler’s assaults.

He was 16 at the time and knew Brennan as a friend who worked with Keeler at St. Brigid’s Summer Camp in Low, Que.

Judge Lynn Ratushny sentenced Brennan to two years probation and ordered him to continue counselling, which he has been undergoing since 1990. He was also ordered not to be left alone with children under 16 years old.

The victim, who cannot be named due to a court order, is one of three men who testified Rev. Keeler had fondled their genitals while a priest at various Ottawa parishes and director of the camp.

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 Hurtful reports

The Ottawa Citizen

25 January 1993

Recent Citizen reports about the trial of Rev. Kenneth Keeler have been very disturbing. I feel the Citizen has exploited the fact that Father Keeler is an Ottawa priest, who was well loved by his parish. He founded St. Brigid’s camp and is loved by those who have attended and worked in the camp.

I can accept Father Keeler’s guilt of sexual assault, but going into the details over and over again is very hurtful to those of us who have grown close to and have been helped and supported by Father Keeler over the years. I ask the Citizen to be more sensitive in its reporting.

Maureen Conlin,  Ottawa

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 Archbishop apologizes to victims of abuse

The Ottawa Citizen

18 January 1993

Sean Upton

In a sermon Sunday, Ottawa Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Gervais apologized to the men who were victims of sexual assaults by an Ottawa priest.

“In the name of the Church I extend my sympathy and apologize to the victims of Father (Kenneth) Keeler‘s past, Gervais told the congregation of St. John the Apostle.

“These acts have happened and they have been admitted,” said Gervais.

“They are in no way excusable. And we find them all reprehensible.

“In your own way, you are victims as well, he told parishioners. “It is right that you should feel anger, sadness, disappointment and shame. I want you to know I feel the same way.

Keeler was the pastor of the Baseline Road church until he was accused last year of sexually assaulting three teenage boys in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

On Wednesday, in the middle of his trial, Keeler changed his plea to guilty. He is to be sentenced Jan. 29.

“Good people can be sinners. Bad people can do good things. Good people can do terrible things, said Gervais, as he asked Keeler’s parishioners to remember the good things the priest has done.

The sermon was Gervais’s first direct public statement about the Keeler case since the 48-year-old cleric pleaded guilty. Gervais used the occasion to defend his own actions in the case, which were criticized by Keeler’s victims.

One of them, now 27, said that after hearing his complaint, Gervais dismissed it by saying: “We have no reason to believe what you guys are saying and that’s it.

Gervais said Sunday that is false.

“I never dismissed the charges: I took them most seriously, he said from the pulpit.

He said Keeler’s victims first went to the priest but he would admit nothing and they turned to the church in January 1991.

Gervais said he was asked to handle it quietly by one victim but, as the allegations grew, he said he was forced to open an official church inquiry. The victim testified before a church-run panel in May 1991.

According to the 27-year-old man, he waited a few weeks for the church to act on his testimony before going to police.

Gervais said he realizes now that the pace of the church’s investigation was not quick enough for the victims.

“I can understand their frustration (with the church). I cannot reproach their overall method. It takes courage to seek justice publicly. They are to be commended.

Gervais will meet parishioners in the parish hall on Tuesday at 7 p.m. to answer their questions.

However, he cautioned that he will be limited in what he can say while Keeler is awaiting sentencing in Ontario and still faces outstanding charges in Quebec, related to his work at St. Brigid’s Summer Camp in Low.

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 Trial far from over for prelate

The Ottawa Citizen

16 January 1993

Ottawa’s Catholic archdiocese is chasing St. John’s, Nfld. for the dubious title of Catholic sex abuse capital of Canada.

This week, Rev. Kenneth Keeler became the area’s third priest to be convicted of criminal sexual offences. If you add these priests to the five current or former Christian lay brothers convicted of offences in nearby Alfred, the Ottawa archdiocese now is second only to St. John’s in numbers of convictions. And trials still await 10 more brothers from Alfred.

The St. John’s archdiocese has had five priests and one former priest convicted, plus eight lay brothers from Mount Cashel orphanage. More important, Keeler’s trial has given Ottawa’s Archbishop Marcel Gervais a public black eye. Certainly, it’s the worst blow to the church since last June when the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops put new guidelines in place to help bishops deal with sex abuse charges.

One complainant in Keeler’s trial said he went to the police only after waiting in vain for the church to do something about his earlier complaints to Gervais.

The witness testified Gervais told him: “We have no reason to believe what you guys are saying, and that’s it.

That was Monday, and Gervais’s office wouldn’t comment while the trial was on.

But the archdiocese was still caught flatfooted by Keeler’s guilty plea on Wednesday.

On Thursday, Rev. Pat Powers, the archdiocese’s vicar for administration, finally denied that Gervais made such a statement, and said the church was still in the process of investigating the complaints when the victims chose to go to the police.

All this matters only because the Keeler case attacks the credibility of the Catholic hierarchy itself.

Gervais’s own credibility was obviously brought into doubt. Even worse, one of Keeler’s victims told the court he had caught Keeler apparently masturbating Bishop John Beahan, now deceased.

Beahan’s not around to defend himself, but he’s now the second Canadian bishop to have his reputation tainted in a court. Criminal charges against Prince George Bishop Hubert O’Connor were recently stayed by the courts because of a legal technicality, but he was forced to admit having sex with young women at a residential school, and fathering a child by one of them.

We’ve known for a while that Canada’s seminaries have somehow failed to screen out men with sexual problems. But now it’s becoming obvious that even the selection process for Canada’s best and brightest priests — their bishops — is somehow flawed.

Catholic officials have always explained that priests are only human, and that like other professions, the clergy also has bad apples.

That explanation never has seemed convincing, because now almost 100 of Canada’s 14,000 Catholic priests and lay brothers have been charged or convicted of sexual crimes.

It’s true that some doctors, teachers, social workers and other professionals have occasionally violated their professional ethics. But probably no other similar professional group has been hit by such a high number of criminal charges of a sexual nature. In the last 10 years, for example, not one complaint of a sexual nature has been laid against Ontario’s 2,700 certified social workers.

There’s also the inevitable suspicion that if 100 priests and lay brothers are charged with criminal offences, how many others are violating their vows in more acceptable ways?

The bishops may think the new guidelines on how to handle sex abuse have solved their public relations problems.

But in the Keeler case, Rev. Pat. Powers’s explanations just aren’t enough. The archbishop himself is the only one who has even a chance of quelling the public doubts about the handling of Keeler’s case. And he’s been too busy with other duties to speak out on this one.

The Keeler trial has also raised anew the question of whether there is something systemically wrong with the Catholic Church in Canada, problems that go far beyond the territory covered by the new guidelines.

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 Archbishop maintains he acted on sex abuse charges against priest

The Ottawa Citizen

15 January 1993

Bob Harvey

Ottawa’s Archbishop Marcel Gervais has contradicted the testimony of a sex abuse victim who said he went to the police after getting no satisfaction from the church over his complaints about Rev. Kenneth Keeler.

Keeler, 48, pleaded guilty Wednesday to sexually assaulting three teenaged boys in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He will be sentenced Jan. 29.

One of the victims told the court Monday that he originally took his complaints to Gervais in January 1991, and later testified before two priests at a church-run hearing in May 1991.

The man is now a 27 and a youth services worker in Vancouver. He said he waited several weeks without hearing anything from the church, and then went to the police after Gervais told him “We have no reason to beleve what you guys are saying and that’s it.”

However, Rev. Pat Powers, the archdiocese’s vicar for administration, said Thursday that Gervais had told the complainant from the beginning that he was free to go to the police at any time. The complainant simply exercised that right when he became impatient with the church’s investigation.

Immediately after receiving the complaints about Keeler, the archdiocese had set up a committee of experts from various fields to deal with the complaints. But Powers said the investigation was slowed because the complainant had to be flown in by the archdiocese to testify before the church committee.

“At no time did the church communicate to the complainant that it had drawn any conclusions in the case,” said Powers.

He said the archdiocesan committee was still discussing the case with Keeler and others when the complainant chose to go to police. Once that step was taken, the church’s investigation was put on hold until the courts had dealt with the matter, said Powers.

Gervais followed every step of the archdiocesan policy on sexual abuse in handling Keeler’s case, said Powers. He said the archdiocese has since adopted the more comprehensive guidelines recommended last year by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The new guidelines say that if the church has reasonable grounds to believe a priest is guilty of sexual abuse, then it should be reported to police or child protection authorities.

Powers said Keeler steadfastly denied to the church committee investigating the allegations that he had done anything wrong.

Powers said Gervais relieved Keeler of his title as pastor of St. John the Apostle Church immediately following the priest’s admission of guilt in the sexual assaults.

Gervais has also referred Keeler’s case to a committee of experts for recommendations on how to deal with the aftermath of the case, including Keeler’s future in the church.

The archbishop had asked Keeler to leave his parish on Baseline Road more than a year ago when the priest was first charged. But technically, he was still the pastor of the parish.

On Sunday, Gervais and auxiliary Bishop Brendan O’Brien will take turns speaking at masses at St. John the Apostle in an attempt to help parishioners deal with Keeler’s conviction.

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 Priest admits 3 sex assaults

Toronto Star

14 January 1993

OTTAWA (CP) – A Roman Catholic priest has admitted in court that he fondled the genitals of two teenage boys and masturbated another to rid him of “bad spirits.”

Rev. Kenneth Keeler, 48, had denied the allegations at the start of his trial. He stunned the court yesterday when he suddenly changed his plea to guilty on three counts of sexual assault.

The three complainants, now aged 26 to 28, told court about incidents in the rectory of Ottawa’s Holy Rosary Church and at St. Brigid’s summer camp in Low, Que., when they were between the ages of 13 and 15.

Under a court order, the men can’t be named.

Two of the victims confronted Keeler in 1991 about the incidents, which occurred in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But he admitted to nothing.

After Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais told the men that nothing would be done in 1991, they turned to the criminal justice system. Keeler will be sentenced Jan. 29.

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Parishioners revered molesting priest

The Ottawa Citizen

14 January 1993

Bob Harvey

As the boy walked to church, hand-in-hand with his family, he looked up and said: “I’m going to be a priest one day.”

When he became a teenager, the Roman Catholic Church and one of its priests, Kenneth Keeler, grew to be the focus of his life. “I looked to him as my role model, my mentor.”

Years later, when the boy was a man, he found himself in an Ottawa courtroom talking about how Keeler had taken away his innocence and ultimately his religion through an indecent assault.

Keeler, 48, had denied the allegations, but admitted all Wednesday, pleading guilty and bringing his trial to a quick halt.

The man and two other victims had two concerns that forced them to go public: They wanted Keeler to get help, and they didn’t want any other young people to be at risk. And if the court decides Keeler should go to jail as a lesson to potential child molesters, that’s OK, said one victim.

“I have a really tough time going into a church that will not deal with its problems from within,” said one of the victims. “These people are supposed to be our leaders. They’re supposed to lead us in our faith. I can’t see them doing that.”

Keeler often took teenaged boys under his wing. Because he was admired by his parishioners in all the area churches in which he served, parents would encourage Keeler’s interest in their sons.

Keeler’s name still appears on the bulletin as pastor at St. John the Apostle church on Baseline Road. Many parishioners were shocked by Wednesday’s change of plea, but they were also compassionate and eager to protect Keeler’s reputation.

“I’m very fond of Father Keeler. I always was and I always will be — guilty or innocent,” said choir director Roberta Fowlie after Keeler pleaded guilty.

“He did an excellent job. He was liked by everybody in the parish and his leadership qualities were excellent. This was shocking to me,” said another parishioner, Ron Bennett.

Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais asked Keeler to leave the parish after the charges were laid in October 1991.

According to statistics collected by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, he is at least the 56th Catholic priest or brother to be convicted of sexual offences in Canada since about 1985.

The procedures followed by the Archdiocese of Ottawa in Keeler’s case do not appear to fall in line with guidelines set by the bishops’ conference a year after charges against him were investigated and dismissed by the archdiocese.

The new guidelines recommend that church officials act within 24 hours, if possible, to determine whether there are reasonable grounds to believe there was sexual abuse by a priest. The guidelines also suggest that if officials determine there are such grounds, the priest be put on leave immediately, and police or child protection authorities be informed.

Keeler was clearly revered by many young people he met over the years. He bought them dinners, took them on trips and regularly let them sleep over at the church’s rectory. Keeler also founded a summer camp in the late 1970s, where he employed many teenagers as “cabin boys.”

At camp and in the rectory, Keeler would ask select boys to share his bed. He’d cuddle them in a “spoon-like” position that sometimes led to genital fondling.

As for the three victims, their ordeal before the courts has cost them dearly. Some saw their best friends turn on them.

“They almost put us on trial,” one said.

Two of the three victims have since gone on to lead successful lives. They work as youth recreation workers in Ottawa and Vancouver.

But the third victim, a brother of one of the workers, has spent most of the last decade behind bars for various criminal offences. He was also the victim of the most severe abuse from Keeler, forced masturbation.

His brother said Keeler’s conviction may help him confront some demons in his past. “I’m not saying Keeler made him a criminal. I’m just saying he didn’t help him.”

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 Priest masturbated boy to banish spirits, court told

The Ottawa Citizen

13 January 1993

Mike Blanchfield

A Roman Catholic priest masturbated a teenage boy to rid him of “bad spirits, a court was told Tuesday.

The 26-year-old man was the third person to say he had been indecently assaulted by Ottawa priest Kenneth Keeler, 48. Earlier Tuesday, a 28-year-old man said Keeler fondled his genitals when he was a teenager.

None of the complainants can be identified due to a court order.

The allegations date to the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Keeler was a priest at various Ottawa parishes and the director of St. Brigid’s Summer Camp in Low, Que.

Tuesday, the 26-year-old man said he and Keeler spoke about the masturbation incident within days. “He told me he was getting the bad spirits out of me, the man recalled. He was 13 at the time.

“I was pretty naive. I had a hard-on so I figured that must have been bad spirits.

The man said he later stole $700 from the rectory of Holy Rosary Church, where Keeler was a priest and where the incident took place. The man said he was “pissed off at Keeler but was too embarrassed to tell anyone. After Keeler confronted him, the boy never spoke to him again.

He didn’t tell anyone about the incident until 1990. In the interim, the man got into more trouble. He has a criminal record and is now in custody on an unrelated matter, court was told.

Tuesday’s other witness said he was once asked as part of a high school assignment to write about the most important person in his life.

“I put Father Keeler down in front of my own father, he said.

The man, 13 at the time he was fondled, said he was an altar boy for Keeler in an Ottawa church and was a “cabin boy for the priest at the summer camp.

He said he rationalized one fondling incident as no more than a dream. It was only years later that he was able to talk about it.

The man said he voluntarily shared Keeler’s single bed at the camp and they would sleep, cuddled in a “spoon like position.”

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  Charges against priest mar parish anniversary

The Ottawa Citizen

28 October 1991

Bob Harvey

Anniversary celebrations were dampened Sunday at St. John the Apostle Church on Baseline Road as parishioners learned their priest had been removed from the parish until his trial on sexual assault charges.

The parish went ahead with its 25th anniversary celebrations, but without Rev. Kenneth Keeler, 47, who was charged Thursday with three counts of indecent assault dating back to 1977.

Ottawa’s Archbishop Marcel Gervais and auxiliary Bishop Brendan O’Brien attended different weekend masses at the church to help deal with what O’Brien called the ”confusion and mixed emotions” brought on by the charges.

During his homily, O’Brien asked parishioners to pray, and to help one another deal with the emotions brought on by the charges against Keeler. He told them, ”prayer helps us not to make rash comments.”

Parishioners were tight-lipped after hearing O’Brien at the 11 a.m. mass Sunday, with some refusing comment. One called Keeler ”a great guy,” and another said, ”we’ve got to accept them (priests) as human like everyone else.”

O’Brien explained to parishioners that Keeler will be getting support from fellow priests during the legal process. But he also said that ”the bishop must also be present for the needs of any alleged victims.

”The diocese has offered to help with counselling or other needs. But it must be understood that this is a gesture of pastoral concern, and in no way a judgment on the case.”

Keeler is charged with indecently assaulting a 17-year-old boy at Holy Rosary rectory on Wellington Street between 1981 and 1983, and with indecently assaulting a 14-year-old boy while a pastor at St. Brigid’s Church on Murray Street and St. Martin de Porres on Richmond Road.

23 Responses to Keeler: Father Ken Keeler

  1. Chris Fuoco says:

    Sylvia, I am so thankful for your site. To allow all a forum, outlet and space to express their feelings on such sad happenings is so needed. As a past victim (Ken Keeler and the church as a whole)I have been helped by so many from society and from your site. Now, a father of two, I hope we can call the church their home I look to Sylvia’s site for information and strength. May all those struggleing to come forward know that true life begins with admitting the truth from your past. Please know that you are not alone in the year 2011 and beyond – support awaits. It hase been soooo many years since I have suffered through the abuse. YES it still hurts sometimes, but life is great and it will be for you. I wish the Catholic Church would deal with things directly – they don’t and likely won’t for a real long time! Please don’t trust them, don’t believe little advances are going to make big changes – but do have faith, for God is what is right and not the church. If it is the one true church then perhaps it is led by many weak men. It is the flock that must be strong for the shepards are misdirected and in need of the Holy Spirit. Hopefully our saviour will once again take over the reins of our church so our children will be safe from the “Sins of the Fathers”. MR Keeler, Mr. Gervais and others, – I still have not received an appology for your sins, and attacking of my faith. My fellow St. Brigid’s and St. Puis X, St John the Apostle so called friends – you were not there to support but were there to attack us as we told the truth (wow – if you only knew it all). I am not a judge, but are you sure you are prepared for judgement day? Oh, and by the way as my parents are sick and dying and you pushed them away from the church, thanks for not only attacking me, my faith, their child but their faith, but for leaving them lost as they are unsure of the route to the kingdom of heaven.

    May all the victems of abuse at the hands of priests rise up and be acknoledged. May the priests stop, ask to be saved and may the world be a better place in 2011 and beyond because we have God in our lives and honesty in our lives.

    Thank you Sylvia, Chris, not a victem but a true believer in what is right!

  2. Lina says:

    Chris Fuoco,Re:post #1

    What an awesome post you wrote Chris. All valid statements you made.

    Justice and peace for all.

    Lina

  3. Tony says:

    Chris,

    An excellent and thoughtful post…

    I’ve known you and your parents from the days before we were victims, during the victimization, through the criminal case, then through the denial of the archdiocese and the congregation, through the years of our suffering and the multiplied suffering of our parents (the guilt and ignorance they felt)and their constant search for a new holy gathering. I know they are both struggling in their route to Heaven during these final few years(on earth)but trust me and more importantly trust in the God that Keeler and “the boys” lied to and shamed; as their is no doubt in my mind and soul that if there is a fast track to the most beautiful part of Heaven that your parents will be on it…and I know you know that!

    Peace and Love in 2011 my brother!

    Tony

  4. I knew him from the 70s says:

    Once again, Justice Totally Failed. I wonder why F Ken Keeler has not been dealt with by the full force of the law years ago. I also wonder why the Law has not ordered an search warrant on the Catholic Diocese Offices with full force of the Law that is suppose to protect children and innocent people of Canada. How can they just ignore this repeat of Sexual Assault and abuse of children. The Catholic Diocese should be totally audited financially. Find the payout evidences of there crimes and without prejudiced. Have a Court Order to carefully investigate all documents of the Catholic Diocese. The time is NOW, to protect all children and innocent people and use the full force of the Law to do so.

    I know F Ken Keeler when he was at St Bridget’s Church and summer Camp.
    Yes he was inappropriately sexually assaulting children then and the Catholic Diocese moved him to another church in Ottawa where he repeated his crime. The Catholic Diocese Knows the Truth.

    Your Truly
    One of the many children concerned & (Altar Boy)

    The blind law Sickens me…

  5. J.P. Arial says:

    I went to St. Brigid’s Separate Catholic School on Springfield Rd. from 1973-1979. I also as well attended the Summer Camp in Low, Quebec in 1976 & 1977. Keeler put his arms around me momentarily while I was sitting on the beach alone while watching others swim. I didn’t think much about it then, but wonder to this day if he had me in mind as a victim.

    However, sadly…others weren’t so fortunate. I even knew one of boys who was a victim. His first name is Robert. He was a single parent child with only his Mother and his one brother. I suspect that Keeler targeted young boys of single parents with the Mother being the only parent, but I don’t know of all the cases. It’s only a guess.

    Yes, it’s sick that Joe blow RATzinger had the nerve to say to sexually abused children that, “They we’re imagining things.” What one sorry son of a bitch he is! Also him slapping a News Reporter in the face when questioning him! I would of charged him with assault!

    ROME IS A CRIMINAL OUTFIT-THE VATICAN IS ORGANIZATION WHICH MAJORS IN EVERY FORM OF CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, AND IS DUE FOR IT’S JUDGMENT AND ALL THOSE WHO STILL SHEEPISHLY ADHERE TO THIS SICK AND FALSE ECCLESIASTICAL AND POLITICAL INSTITUTION OF CORRUPTION AND A WORTHLESS HEAP PILE OF SHIT!

    http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/

    http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/RecentUpdatesampArticles/Apr52011HelpBringthePopetoTrial/tabid/150/Default.aspx

    http://www.popeaccountability.org/do-you-approve-/index.php

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qvgdS0s56Q

  6. Derek says:

    I was a camper at St. Brigid’s while Tony and Chris were counselors. In fact, Tony was my counselor.

    I feel horrible about it all. I guess i don’t have too much more to say. Just this: All five victims and Fr. Keeler are in my prayers. What a shame it all is. I am really sorry. God bless you.

    Derek

  7. Sylvia says:

    You said so much Derek. It will mean a lot to Tony Chris.

  8. Paul says:

    Me and my friends worked at St Brigids, and some of them attended St Martin’s in Bells Corners where Keeler worked in the 70s. The dirty-half-dozen they called us, me and my friends hired on for the summer to cut grass, do odd jobs, peel potatoes and satisfy the twisted lust of these men. I was not personally assaulted by this man, but a number of my friends were. And he was not alone, he and his colleagues in abuse would drink in the cabin down by the beach at St Brigids and after a while one of them would come up the walk to the dorm room we’d sleep in. One of us would be accused of making too much noise, or having transgressed during the day, and be told we’d be spending the night in Keeler’s cabin…ostensibly to separate the troublemaker from the good boys. We suspected what was going on. But we didn’t say it out loud. My suspicions were only confirmed when the story broke some twenty years later.

    I don’t know what became of my old friends. I don’t know if they ever got justice, closure or compensation. And I wonder whether Keeler ever felt the slightest, genuine remorse for the torture he inflicted. Or whether he just asked for and was granted absolution by his fellow rapists.

    I hope to see him one day, and ask him whether he remembers Pete and Joel and Pat. And what he remembers most about them. The glorious ferocity of their youth? The unquenchable energy they brought to simply living? The radiance of possibility in their eyes? Or does he remember what only he could have witnessed, close and very private, the fury of a fourteen year old forced to submit to the wanton, passing lust of a man to whom they had been entrusted…to whom, they were told, their immortal souls depended.

    I know why he didn’t rape me. I wasn’t Catholic, and he knew he had no power over me.

  9. Beaten Up says:

    Keelor was also a sadist. I attended St Brigid’s camp in ’72 and ’73 both as a camp member and a ‘counsellor in training’ It was in the summer of ’72 that Keelor set up a boxing ring and got kids to box each other as he watched along. He chose who would box and put me (a skinny, weak kid with asthma) against the toughest kid at camp. I remember getting the crap beaten out of me, and Keelor watching along. I had a nasty headache on the side of my head and the camp nurse arranged for me to rest in the cabin side room instead of our team campers tent. His friend Pat kept coming to me saying, if you want to go home to recover they would arrange for me to go home immediately…. but going home was usually out of the question… so I thought that odd. I was trying to be strong and say, no I don’t need to go home… I remember (as a naive 13 year old) hearing strange noises at night in the cabin which I joked about the next day, and their desire for me to go home became even stronger. I eventually went home two days later cause the side of my head was sore, my ears ached and were sore to touch. My parents took me to our family doctor in Ottawa who was rather disgusted that I was forced to box and sustained these injuries.

    Now, years later I understand exactly what was going on i.e. the noises (groaning etc).

    As for the boxing, I always thought maybe Keelor did that because there was a lesson for me to learn – maybe to stand up for myself or something, but I could never figure out what the lesson was supposed to have been. Years later, I sought mental health help and described the incident, as Keelor was now in the news for the charges, and the counsellor said ‘not only was he a pedophile, he was a sadist’.

    Back when I started at St Brigid’s, since I had been bullied at another school, St Brigid’s arranged for me to spend an afternoon with Father Keelor to get me talking and working through stuff, but I clammed up with him…. I thought often that I should have opened up, but consider myself really lucky that I didn’t.

    Anyways, in addition to the sexual abuse, there was clearly an element of sadism, and it wasn’t the warm friendly place that the camp is made out to be, and Keelor definitely was an alcoholic. I certainly do not have good memories of being there. If you weren’t good at sports, it wasn’t a fun place to be. I wonder if other people out there who experienced forms of emotional abuse.

    When I heard about the sexual abuse charges against Keelor and Pat I really felt for the guys who went through a much tougher time than I did. I hope they find healing.

    I must say that there were some great teachers and administrators at St. Brigids school – and I will always be grateful for the environment in the school that gave me a respite from bullying at another school, and the acceptance and encouragement I received from the teachers and fellow students. Sad to see the school’s reputation dragged down in any way as a result of the camp issues.

    Thanks for the opportunity to post this. I’ve never really had the chance to state all of this in a public way.

  10. Sylvia says:

    Father Ken Keeler is in Halifax, Nova Scotia ministering as Chaplain to elderly nuns at Caritas, a retirement home for the Sisters of Charity.

    Believe it or not, this convicted child molester has faculties to say Mass. I am sure that of he has faculties to say Mass he also has faculties to hear confessions.

    Father Keeler ministers to those poor nuns at Caritas. I wonder if they all know that Father Keeler sexually abused all those young lads? I wonder if they know that those little boys saw him on the front deck of a cabin engaging in sexual activity with Bishop Beahen?

    On occasion the public attend Masses at Caritas.

    (I just realized that I haven’t filled in Father Keeler’s assignments in Ottawa. I will try to get that done and bring it up-to-date today.)

  11. Sylvia says:

    I have posted quite a few articles and as many dates as I could.

    It’s interesting to post these now. Note the 28 October 1991 article in the Ottawa Citizen “Charges against priest mar parish anniversary.” There’s reference there to Brendan O’Brien, then an auxiliary bishop to Archbishop Marcel Gervais:

    “During his homily [at St. John the Apostle] , O’Brien asked parishioners to pray, and to help one another deal with the emotions brought on by the charges against Keeler. He told them, ‘prayer helps us not to make rash comments.’”

    And, yes, that’s the same Brendan O’Brien who was Bishop of the Diocese of Pembroke in 1997 when a justifiably upset mother confronted him regarding the abuse here son had endured at the hands of Father Dan Miller.

  12. FRANCO says:

    I was abused by Father Keeler when i was thirteen,i’m the one who spent more then ten years in jail.I now live in Italy and have been for the past twenty yrs as i got deported from Canada in 1993 yes, the same year he pleaded guilty.I don’t blame him for my mishaps,after all it was me who as we say pulled the trigger.we all make mistakes and we are all responsible for our actions.I guess what i’m trying to say is i forgive you for what you done to me but not for making me stray from my family and friends,i’ve been through hell and back more then once,but i know that i am a good person with a big heart you may of broken me then,but i picked-up the pieces and after twenty years of fighting demons i’m happy to say that it has made me a better person,and for that i thank-you Father Ken.I can now forgive you,but i will never forget the feeling of humiliation and emptyness that i carried around,you took away my youth,my teen years and you stoped my growth and most of all you were not getting rid of my evil spirits you were making me evil,i am deeply sorry for all the pain i put my family through but am very happy for having a family that loved me and supported me…I made peace with my demons and from the bottom of my heart i hope that you Father Ken Keeler make peace with yours……GOD BLESS……..ps sorry about my spelling i was never an A student…A big hug to my brother to Chris and to Dale.LOVE and PEACE.Thank-you Sylvia my heart feels alot lighter now.

    • Sylvia says:

      Franco, how wonderful to hear from you! And how wonderful to hear that you are doing so well.

      We never met, but the Father Keeler sex abuse trial was the first I ever attended. I remember it well. I remember all of you. I have never and
      will never forget your poor dear
      father, so terribly distraught when he realized you would be deported. The
      whole trial and every one of you who
      took the stand had a profound impact on me. I have thought about you Franco
      So often over the past 20 years. It truly is a wonderful gift for new year to hear from you yourself, and to know
      that your demons have been fought hard and you have emerged the victor. Good for you Franco. Good for you.

      My thoughts and prayers are with you. Thank you for posting. You made my day 🙂

  13. Tony says:

    Haven’t been on the site for a few years now…at first I found it to be a validation but soon after it was becoming a reminder…years later I’m back because a lawyer in Ottawa is doing his homework. Looks like more victims are finding the strength to fight. To those victims please stay strong and know that whatever you need the boys from the 93 conviction will step up for all of you. We fought alone, it didn’t have to be that way and it won’t be that way for you. Amazing to see my brother Frankie post whom I have scene once in 20 years and who has never met my children. I had to fly to Italy to see him, read his post above for why. I contribute that directly to KK and his band of protectors. Frank I admire your strength and I admire your willingness to forgive but I’m telling you the he pulled the trigger not you.

    Do you all want to know what the hardest thing for me to deal with right now is?? If these new victims abused after me, I will feel tremendous remorse for not coming forward sooner to have prevented this from happening to them…I guess it’s the Catholic in me…

    Here comes the pain…

    PS. I love you Frankie my little brother and I’m sorry for ever introducing you to Keeler.

  14. apologetic bystander says:

    Just recently I saw the movie Spotlight. And it made me think about these cases. I attended St. Rays Intermediate in 80s where Father Keeler would say masses etc for us. There were rumours and jokes and calling him Father Feeler. Remember being lectured by homeroom teacher about respect for church and not spreading rumours. He was very charming. Saddens me to hear about all victims and those that came forward and were not believed. No words describe betrayal. The movie definitely said it all. It takes a village to raise a child and a village to destroy a child

    • Steven Birce (now Allat) says:

      I also attended St. Ray’s for grades 7 and 8 in 1979 and 80. He gave everyone he found endearing a nickname and mine was ‘Rags’. He was very witty, charismatic and yet I was wary of him because he seemed too ‘cool’ to be true (wore blue jeans with his shirt and collar, remember?). Anywho, one of my best friends invited me to St. Brigid’s summer camp for 2 weeks, and on the weekend between me and another young boy were invited to stay at the Parish, which we did for one night and Keeler took us to the Bishop Beahan’s house?, where we swam in the pool and they drank beers which they encouraged us to sip. That night, my friend and I shared a bed with Ken Keeler, and while I do not remember anything happening to me (and i honestly do not think I am forgetting or repressing anything, I am fine and well-adjusted and love life), but I have always been suspicious that something happened to my friend ‘R’, because he acted very strangely the next day and from then on.
      I think I need to share this story and contemplate those times, as I haven’t thought about them for years and did not even know about his trial in the 90’s until a few years ago.
      Very sad, and I am as sad for the priests being trapped in a sick system which does not allow a human man a natural outlet for being . . . human.

  15. Peter says:

    No surprises here, I even know who the names belong to. I just cannot believe that they do not have mandatory courses in grade schools on how to pick out these pedophiles in a crowd, I wonder why? Too many people turning a blind eye to these practiced con-artists, they usually have some kind of power or status that is looked up to out of societal respect and it is such crap.

    Father Keeler knew exactly how to manipulate parishioners, neighbors, strangers, all under the guise of being a caring God loving priest, he knew exactly who not to touch because they were the street smart kids or they were boys’ with a father who would have beat the living crap out of him. So all you guys who escaped his clutches be thankful he was afraid of the of your parents. He wasn’t bragging to those families about his summer camp, because they would have caught on quick and alerted the other parents. If you had a single mom, and you weren’t street smart, you were screwed. He would buy your mom alcohol or drugs under the guise of camaraderie and friendship, when his objective was for the parent to pass out so he could have you all alone. If he miscalculated and the child could not be lured, he would give them hashish and let them feel cool about having street cred with their 15 year old peers who would think you had a dope connection, in Canada smoking hashish as a teenager is as American as firecrackers.

    Father Keeler would run a dance on Friday nights where he could scope out the boys for his plans, pretending not to notice the drinking unless it was an in for him to molest a boy he wanted. He was an expert at not giving away his motive, if he thought you were defensive, he would quickly change course. On several occasions, a responsible adult running a teenage dance would have called the police or at minimum the kids parents to tell them their 15 year old kid was sloshed or had passed out or fallen down and cut themselves open on broken glass, not Father Keeler, he was just scoping his victims out and letting all the teens know they were in a safe place to do what ever they wanted, I always wondered what happen to the few injured he took in private almost passed out or in need of bandages or stitches after a beer bottle broke in their sock.

    If you are a grade school teacher, tell your students this, there is no end to these perverts, some priests, doctors, teachers, police, your next door neighbor. Teach them the signs so they can get out before some queer molester has them in private when they are passed out or in a position to excite one of these criminals. This goes for girls too, be wary of the charming personalities, teachers, doctors, television and political personalities do it too.

  16. Tania says:

    I went to Bayshore Catholic School in the late 70’s where I was a alter girl and where Ken Keeler gave mass. As a young girl I was always confused as to why I put my robe on outside the office while the boys were taken with KK into the office to put theirs on, I don’t remember the response but I do remember asking why, it has bothered me so much that to this day I search the internet for any information. All these years later my suspicions were confirmed and it really hurts. It hurts because I felt I let my friends down and it hurts because the Catholic Church continues to do nothing about it. I am so sorry to my friends who were abused by this monster, it has haunted me all my life.

    • Sylvia says:

      That I have not heard Tanya. He took the boys into his office to don their robes, and left the girls outside?

      Don’t blame yourself. Please do not blame yourself. You too were a child. On hindsight you can perhaps see and understand, but at the time you would never I am sure have thought that anything perverse, abhorrent or horrific might be happening to those boys in that office. How could the mind of child even begin to entertain such thoughts? I am sure the boys who were molested by Keeler would never for a moment blame you.

      • Tania says:

        Thank you for your reply. I am not sure that I feel like they would blame me however I do feel there are obviously a lot of people who should have done something but were too afraid. If I, at 10 years old, felt there was something wrong then the adults around must have known something was wrong. I believe I knew something was wrong because I was a victim of molestation myself (not by anyone is the church). Anyway it is all very sad, we have spoken about it in the family for years but it is good to get it out there in support of the victims. I feel like a bit of a burden is lifted. Thank you.

  17. Kathy Dutchess says:

    Why was Fr. Ken Keeler allowed to celebrate Mass and perform the Consecration?

    • Paul says:

      Probably because the Archbishop was a pedophile too, and because he had connections at City Hall and the Crown Attorney and the Archbishop didn’t want anyone to blow his cover, especially with all the damaged and naive kids and their parents or parent they had access to. Innocent until he plead guilty.

      For every 100 abused kids you have read about, there has to be another 200 who just keep the pain and anger inside, because victims against powerful people seems to be a continuous losing battle even in the metoo age. Kevin Spacey will likely get off too because the victim didn’t stop the assault, maybe he filmed it to blackmail Spacey, watch what his lawyers do to that kid and his mother. Kevin Spacey could have been a priest easily.

      Ask any victim who never got justice, and you will hear of the balance of power in the court, it’s funny how people with lots of money and connections can do what ever they want again and again and again.

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