LOS ANGELES (CA)
Loyolan
Posted: Monday, September 17, 2012 1:00 am
Zaneta Pereira, News Editor
Posted on September 17, 2012
The latest alleged sexual abuse scandal committed by a member of the Roman Catholic clergy hits close to home for LMU as the accused Jesuit, Brother William Farrington, S.J., spent 15 years on the University’s campus from 1987 until his retirement in 2002.
The allegations against Farrington were brought to light last Tuesday, Sept. 11, via a letter sent out to hundreds of graduates of San Jose’s Bellarmine College Preparatory, where Farrington worked as a dormitory supervisor and a coach for the swim and dive teams. In the letter, a man who attended the Catholic high school in the 1960s came forward with the accusation that he had been sexually molested on campus by Farrington, according to the Sept. 13 Mercury News article, “Bellarmine abuse controversy still has plenty of questions remaining.” The man also urged anyone who “might have been victimized by Farrington in the mid-1960s to 1970s to come forward,” according to the same article.
The accuser’s letter was supported by an email sent from Bellarmine Prep’s president, Fr. Paul G. Sheridan, S.J, who called the claims of abuse “credible.”
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