MISSOURI
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
BY MARLON A. WALKER • mwalker@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8104
Several Chaminade College Preparatory graduates have come forward alleging that they were subjected to verbal and sexual abuse by two Marianists more than three decades ago, a leader of the Marianists said Monday.
The Rev. Martin Solma, provincial for the U.S. Marianists, said a male graduate came forward several months ago saying he had been sexually abused by the Revs. Louis Meinhardt and John Woulfe while at the school in the 1970s.
Meinhardt, who worked at the school from 1958 to 1982, died in 1990. Woulfe left the order in 1977 after nine years at the school. He died in 2005.
At the victim’s request, letters were mailed to 1,600 former students who had graduated while the men worked at the school.
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