On Wednesday, Colorado’s Attorney General released an in-depth report which alleged that 43 priests in the state’s three dioceses had sexually abused at least 166 children since 1950. The 263-page report, which can be read in its entirety below, was compiled by a third-party investigator as a result of a seven-month probe that was ordered …
Michigan’s Attorney General announced Friday that five current and former Catholic priests have been charged for sex misconduct which allegedly occurred as far back as the 1970s. The Detroit Free Press reported the criminal charges came as part of a statewide investigation into sexual abuse committed by Catholic clergy. Some of the men facing charges, …
Authorities in Maryland say a man has been arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing his mother outside of a church in Rockville last week. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 21-year-old Kevin Justin McGuigan is accused of stabbing 49-year-old Jaclyn McGuigan on Friday at St. Raphael Catholic Church. Police responded to the scene on Dunster Road after …
A retired Idaho priest who admitted to possessing and distributing child porn was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison without the possibility of parole. The Idaho Statesman reported that the Reverend W. Thomas Faucher, 73, received the de facto life sentence following a rambling 17-minute statement where he attempted to explain how he became entangled …
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Monday that the names of 11 priests accused in the grand jury’s scathing report regarding rampant child sex abuse in the church will remain permanently redacted. As reported by the Philadelphia Enquirer, August’s grand jury report included testimony from more than 1,000 children who alleged abuse at the hands of 301 priests in …
Authorities in North Dakota believe a 21-year-old naked man was under the influence of methamphetamine when he entered a Catholic church on Tuesday and interrupted a service with a lewd display. According to the New York Post, Zachary Burdick was arrested after disrupting the Mass at the Spirit of Life Catholic Church in Mandan on …
A Catholic school teacher jailed on child rape charges was released from prison a decade early after a court threw out the conviction amid questions about the accuser’s credibility. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Bernard Shero, 54, a former teacher at St. Jerome school, pleaded no contest Monday to child rape and assault charges. In turn, …
