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Summary of Case: Francis X. Nawn was ordained a Jesuit priest for the Wisconsin Province in June 1951. He was assigned to Jesuit high schools in Colorado and Wisconsin, then to Creighton University in Omaha NE for a year. In 1962 Nawn was transferred to Alaska, and was transcribed to the Oregon Province in 1973. He lived and worked in remote Alaskan villages until 1988, with the exception of a year’s sabbatical at Fordham University in New York. He died Oct. 1, 1992. In 2004 Nawn’s name first surfaced in lawsuits as having perpetrated child sexual abuse in Sheldon Point AK. The abuse was said to have occurred as early as 1963 and until at least 1977. By August 2005 nine men and a woman had come forward with allegations of sexual abuse by Nawn when they were children.
Ordained: June 14, 1951
Died: Oct. 1, 1992
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