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Summary of Case: A priest of the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus, Hargrave was ordained in 1947 and went on to spend the bulk of his lengthy priesthood in remote Alaskan villages. He was suspended from ministry in 2003 due to an allegation that he had made inappropriate sexual advance toward a 60-year-old woman. In a 2009 lawsuit Hargrave was called a “serial child molester”. He was accused of fondling a 6 or 7-year-old boy multiple times in 1956 in Nulato, Alaska, and of raping a 5 or 6-year-old boy in 1992 in the village of Numan Iqua. Hargrave spent the last decade of his life at the Regis Jesuit Community in Spokane, WA, working as a pastoral minister to native American communites. He died Feb. 22, 2013.
Ordained: 1947
Died: Feb. 22, 2013
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