It never fails. Virtually every time anyone takes a closer look at a church’s ‘credibly accused’ abuser list, more new names emerge, names that the institution (whether a diocese or a religious order) has conveniently left off its list. It could be researchers like us at Horowitz Law. It could be a group like BishopAccountability.org (an archive organization) or SNAP, the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (a support group.) It could be a prosecutor, grand jury, or attorney general. Or it could be a news outlet, as is the case here. It doesn’t matter. Virtually every single time somebody puts forth some effort and spends some time on Google, names turn up that SHOULD be but are NOT on the official church sex offender list.
So before we go further, let us express our deep gratitude to those who work diligently to warn others about child molesting clerics that Catholic officials want us to ignore or forget about and, by so doing, remind us all that secrecy and deceit continue to be the modus operandi of so many in the church hierarchy, hopefully, help law enforcement investigate, prosecute and convict some of them, keeping dangerous individuals away from children.
In this case, our appreciation goes out to the Baltimore Sun, which has (in its own words) “built the largest and only searchable database in Maryland, publishing a list of 309 people with ties to the church who were accused of child sexual abuse or misconduct and lived or worked anywhere in the state.”
The new names include a caregiver, a deacon, and a nun. It includes a few seminarians, coaches, teachers, and dozens of priests. Several of them are apparently on no list anywhere, secular or religious.
Expanded List of Accused Predators in the Archdiocese of Baltimore
Here’s a partial list of the ‘new names.’ The Maryland city or town where the offender is or was is directly after each name, followed by other places where s/he is or has been.
- Fr. Alfred Willis – Baltimore and Vermont
- Br. Anthony Parlangeli – Baltimore and Miami
- Seminarian Brian Keith Olkowski – Ocean City and Baltimore
- Fr. Bruno Michael Tucci – Baltimore, Allentown, and New Mexico
- Fr. Carl Drake– Patuxent Naval Base in Anne Arundel County and Columbus
- Fr. Carlton Jones – Baltimore, New York, Columbus, New Haven, and Washington, DC.
- Catherine Martha Czapski (coach) – Cumberland
- Fr. Charles Cassetta– Baltimore, Miami, and Buffalo
- Br. Charles (Lucas) H. Cummings – Wheaton, Louisville, Lowell, Bangor, Brooklyn, Bronx, and White Plains
- Br./Msgr. Charles George Fatooh – Endicott City, Monterey, Seaside, Cayucos, and Los Angeles
- Charles “Chuck” Friedel (coach) – Essex and Baltimore
- Br. Christian Neetz – Silver Spring, Washington DC, Youngstown, Pittsburgh, Wilmington, Bushnell, Winter Park , Norfolk, Hollidaysburg, and Brooklyn
- Sr. Claire Pisaneschi – Baltimore, St. Ann, Torrington, Bristol, Scranton, Dunmore, Newark, Paterson, Raritan, Pittston, Belleville, Morristown, West New York, Lodi, Scotch Plains, and Perth Amboy
- Fr. David Brusky – Baltimore, Reno, Milwaukee, Las Vegas, Sacramento, and Tanzania East Africa
- Fr. David L. Colella – Baltimore, Pikesville, Victoria, and Dallas
- Fr. David E. F. Scharf – Silver Spring, Pittsburgh, Baden, Carmichaels, Butler, East McKeesport, Beaver Falls, Scott Township, and Hopewell Township
- Br. David Trichtinger – Towson and Pittsburgh
- Fr. Donald Grecco – Baltimore and Canada
- Fr. Donald J. Keenan – Baltimore, Boston, North Palm Beach, Scranton, Dunkirk, NY, Union City, South River, Farmington, West Hartford, and Toronto
- Fr. Edward C. Foster – Kensington, New York, Washington DC, Burlington, Rutland, West Pawlet, and Middletown Springs
- Fr. Eugene O’Brien – Woodstock, Jersey City, Washington DC, Fairfield, Pomfret, Cornwall, and New York City
- Fr. Francis O’Lone (a.k.a. Brother Remigius)- Wheaton, Washington DC, Louisville, Bangor, Hackettstown, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Lawrence, and Somerville
- Fr. Hadmels “Rafael” R. DeFrias – Forestville, Newark, Largo, and the Dominican Republic
- Fr. Harold V. McGovern – Childs, Washington DC, Wilmington DE, Philadelphia, Durham, Winston-Salem, and Roxboro, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Mexico
- Helene Murtha (teacher) – Baltimore
- Fr. Joseph Grant Higgens – Baltimore, New Orleans, Buffalo, North Tonawanda, Gowanda, Angola, and Orchard Park
- Fr. James J. Behan – Elkton, Wilmington and Philadelphia
- Fr. James R. “Pierre” McCormack – Wheaton and Leonardtown
- Joanne Kahn (teacher) – Townson
- Fr. John J. ‘Brennan’ Devoe – Baltimore, Helen and Leonardstown (was also in England and East Africa)
- Br. John ‘Jeron’ Shea – Leonardtown, Washington DC, Detroit, and Brooklyn
- Fr. John Danilak – Baltimore, Beltsville, and Pennsylvania
- Fr. John “Jack” Kennington – Baltimore, New York, Washington DC, Opa Locka, Esopus, and Brazil
- Fr. John M. “Jack” McDevit – Childs, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and New Jersey
- Fr. John P. McManus – Baltimore (was also in Cleveland, Plymouth, Mountain View, Seattle, Bothell, and Kenmore
- Fr. John Thomas Mathew Lee – Annapolis, Washington DC, and Millsboro
- David Czajkowski – Baltimore
- Glenn Mayers – Hyattsville and Silver Spring
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