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CINCINNATI —Three Cincinnati priests were defrocked Tuesday and WLWT News 5 spoke with the man who took on the Catholic Church to protect a teenage boy.
The Vatican has permanently removed three Archdiocese of Cincinnati priests from the priesthood.
It was an unpopular choice for Mike Knellinger. It was one that came with a lot of criticism and backlash, but 12 years later, finally some justice.
A phone call from Knellinger’s son in 2002 sparked the investigation that brought down Father Thomas Kuhn, who was a former principal at Elder High School.
“The thought that was on my mind was that could have been my son,” said Knellinger.
One of Kuhn’s victims confided in Knelliger’s son, which led to some of the public indecency charges that he was convicted of two years later.
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