Father Gus Krumm
Diocese of Sacramento/Franciscan Order
Ordained: 1982
Removed: 2003
Laicized: 2006
Assignment History:
- 1980: St. Anthony’s Seminary (Santa Barbara, CA)
- 1980: Santa Barbara Mission (Santa Barbara, CA)
- 1982-1985: St. James the Apostle (Las Vegas, NV)
- 1985-1987: St. Anthony’s Seminary High School (Santa Barbara, CA)
- 1987-1988: Bishop Diego Garcia High School (Santa Barbara, CA)
- 1988-1998: Ss. Simon and Jude (Huntington Beach, CA)
- 1998-2002: Ascension (Portland, OR)
- 2003: St. Francis of Assisi (Sacramento, CA)
Summary of Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Father Gus Krumm:
A priest of the Franciscan Order, Fr. Gustave Krumm, was accused of sexually abusing nine boys under the age of 14. A 1993 report by the Diocese of Sacramento’s review board determined that at least 34 St. Anthony’s Seminary students were sexually abused by 11 Franciscans — including Krumm — over three decades. In 1995, a settlement was reached with a young boy who was sexually abused by Krumm, and it came out in several reports that the Diocese of Sacramento had known about the earlier accusations when it hired him in 1998.
In 2002, Krumm acknowledged “past indiscretions” in the 1970s and 1980s, while a seminarian and after ordination. Many of Krumm’s victims were students at St. Anthony Seminary High School in Santa Barbara, CA. Krumm was removed from his position as pastor of a Portland, OR parish in 2002. He was then moved to a Franciscan parish in Sacramento, CA that same year but was removed six weeks after the media revealed his whereabouts. A few weeks later, two more men accused Krumm of molesting them at their Huntington Beach, CA parish when they were children in the early 1990s. This finally went to trial in a 2009 lawsuit in which the accuser’s brother joined the lawsuit, saying that he, too, was victimized by Krumm.
In a 2011 civil trial, an attorney for the Franciscans acknowledged that Krumm had abused seven teenagers. At least one accuser said his abuse occurred at the Santa Barbara Mission, in 1980.
Krumm is included in the Diocese of Sacramento list of priests credibly accused of child sexual abuse. He is also included in the Santa Barbara Province Franciscans list.
Although Krumm was finally laicized in 2006, he is thought to be working for the state in Sacramento, CA.
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