Ex Pittsburgh Catholic Cleric Sentenced for Sex Crimes

SNAP
May 18, 2015

http://www.snapnetwork.org/pa_ex_pgh_catholic_cleric_sentenced_for_sex_crimes

A Catholic cleric, who worked in Pittsburgh, has been convicted in Australia of a string of sex offenses.

He is Marianist Brother Bernard Joseph Hartman who taught for more than a decade (1986-97) at former North Catholic High School in Pittsburgh. His church supervisors learned of Australian allegations in 1997 and sent him for treatment and reassigned to ministry.

[usatoday.com]

As recently as 2008, Hartman was in active ministry in Ohio despite having apologized in writing almost a decade earlier to a girl he molested. Dayton church-goers told a journalist that Hartman had been sent to live at a church property in St. Louis Missouri where the Marianists are based.

His photo is available at BishopAccountability.org

We hope that Pittsburgh Catholic officials - with the diocese and with the Marianists - will do more to reach out to others who saw, suspected or suffered crimes by Hartman or cover ups by his colleagues.