CALIFORNIA
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Summary of Case: Ordained a Jesuit priest of the California Province in 1985, Speciale’s post-ordination ministry was short-lived. He was accused in a 2004 lawsuit of having sexually abused an 11 year-old boy in 1985, at a Santa Barbara parish. Another lawsuit with accusations against him was settled in 1993. Speciale appears to have left the priesthood after 1989.
Ordained: 1985
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