Monsignor Lawrence Baird
Ordained: 1969
Removed: N/A
Assigned as follows:
- 1969-1973 St. John (Hacienda Heights, CA)
- 1974 Vocations Commission (Los Angeles, CA)
- 1975-1977 St. Anthony Claret (Anaheim, CA)
- 1978 Our Lady of Fatima (San Clemente, CA)
- 1979-1983 Cathedral of the Holy Family (Orange, CA)
- 1984 St. Callistus (Garden Grove, CA)
- 1985-1988 St. Polycarp (Stanton, CA)
- 1989 Unknown
- 1990 Development Office (Orange, CA)
- 1991-1993 St. Norbert (Orange, CA)
- 1994-1997 Cathedral of the Holy Family (Orange, CA)
- 1998-2000 Our Lady Queen of Angels Church (Newport Beach, CA)
- 2001-2006 Orange Catholic Foundation (Orange, CA)
- 2002-2003 Our Lady Queen of Angels Church (Newport Beach, CA)
- 2004-2006 St. John Vianney (Orange, CA)
- 2005-2016 Diocesan Finance Council
- 2007-2017 Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Newport Beach, CA)
Summary of Abuse Allegations against Monsignor Lawrence Baird:
Monsignor Lawrence Baird was ordained a priest in 1969, who served in the Diocese of Orange, where he was a spokesman 1986 to 2004. According to media reports, in 2002, he was accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl twenty years earlier, when she came to him seeking counsel after being sexually abused by another priest, Father John Lenihan. He immediately called a news conference, vigorously denied any misconduct and later filed a slander lawsuit against the accuser. It was eventually dismissed by a judge, who ordered the priest to pay the woman's legal fees.
Monsignor Baird was later accused of sexually abusing another girl. It is believed he never faced any punishment and was allowed to continue serving. He is known to defend priests known by church officials to be molestation risks.
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