PHOENIX (AZ)
The Arizona Republic
By Michael ClancyThe Republic | azcentral.com
Tue Oct 16, 2012
The Catholic Diocese of Phoenix has released a list of 29 clergy members who have been accused or convicted of abusing children, becoming one of only 25 dioceses in the United States that has published such a list.
The publication came on Tuesday as part of a release about the 10 years of the Dallas Charter to protect children from abusive priests and deacons.
The list includes 29 names, including at least one that had not been public before. But it does not include the names of priests who were deceased at the time of accusations against them.
Among those in the latter category is former Bishop James Rausch, who died in 1981.
A Republic listing of those accused of sexual abuse includes 39 names, 40 after the previously unknown priest, Harry Morgan, is added. It includes those who died prior to the accusations. …
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Diocese of Phoenix list of abusive priests
George Bredeman
Joseph Briceno
Patrick Colleary
John Doran
Laurence Florez
Dale Fushek
John Giandelone
Harold Graf
Mark Lehman
Joseph Lessard
Harry Morgan
Maxwell “Ron” Pelton
George Pirrung
Wilputte “Lan” Sherwood
John T. Sullivan
John Spaulding
Neil Emon
Joseph Henn
Louie Ladenburger
Paul LeBrun
Karl LeClaire
Jorge Ortiz Lopez
Lawrence Lovell
Donald McGuire
Richard Ohlemacher
Henry Perez
Jorge Cordova
Sung Lam
Lawrence Riebe
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