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Catholic Diocese of Richmond Says Allegations against Priest Found Not Credible

By Holly Prestidge
Richmond.com
January 28, 2021

https://richmond.com/news/local/catholic-diocese-of-richmond-says-allegations-one-priest-found-not-credible/article_c104b18f-5ebe-58c0-974d-0aff181d6a54.html

The Catholic Diocese of Richmond announced Thursday that child sexual abuse allegations against Thomas Long, a former priest of the diocese, were not credible and that his name will not be added to its list of clergy for which credible and substantiated allegations of child sexual abuse have been made.

The allegations were part of an investigation launched in June 2020 after the diocese received an allegation of child sexual abuse against Long, who was accused of the abuse while serving at Christ the King School in Norfolk in 1986. He was ordained as a priest in the diocese in 1981 before serving at St. Joseph in Petersburg and Norfolk’s Christ the King.

Long took a leave of absence from ministry in 1988 and was already suspended from priestly ministry, and remained suspended last summer when the investigation began.

 

 

 

 

 




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