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Summary of Case: Richard Leo McCaffrey was ordained a Jesuit priest of the New England Province in 1973. While a seminarian he taught school in Glenallen, Alaska and in his native Boston, Massachusetts. After ordination McCaffrey settled into ministry in the diocese of Fairbanks, working in parishes located in Tununak, Nightmute, Toksook Bay, Hooper Bay, Scammon Bay, Bethel, Russian Mission, Marshall, Barrow, Tanana and Fairbanks. He also held a number of prominent Chancery positions, including Chancellor. In 1992 he officially became a member of the Jesuit’s Oregon Province. McCaffrey was removed from ministry in 2005 after accusations emerged that he had sexually abused 10 and 11-year-old girls in Alaskan villages during the late 1970s and early1980s. The abuse was said to have involved at least three girls from three different parts of the state. He was sent to the Jesuit Colomobiere Community in Portland, Oregon, where he died May 7, 2006.
Ordained: May 26, 1973
Died: May 7, 2006
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