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Summary of Case: Hederman was ordained for the St. Louis archdiocese in 1975, and went on to serve as an assistant priest at a number of parishes. He was pastor of North American Martyrs parish and chaplain of Christian Brothers College High School in the 1990s when he was accused of having sexually abused a male high school student several years earlier. Hederman was subsequently sent out of the country to Belize. In 2009 another man accused Hederman in a lawsuit of sexually abusing him when he was a high school student in St. Louis in the early 1990s. Still in Belize, Hederman was removed from active ministry. He denied the accusations. In May 2013 Hederman remains on Leave of Absence.
Ordained: 1975
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