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Summary of Case: Stanley D. Doerger was ordained for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in 1958. Following a brief stint as an assistant parish priest, he spent twenty years at St. Rita School for the Deaf, initially as a resident assistant, then as principal. Doerger returned to parish work in 1980, assisting in Troy and Cincinnati, then pastoring parishes in Xenia and Taylor Creek. In 2003 a woman accused Doerger of having abused her when she was a student at St. Rita’s in the 1970s. Doerger denied the accusation. A group of former St. Rita’s students claimed he had physically, sexually and verbally abused up to 275 girls at the school. Doerger was kept in ministry. In March 2005 he was suspended after an independent tribunal awarded his accuser compensation. Doerger died in September 2005.
Born: March 25, 1933
Ordained: 1958
Died: September 10, 2005.
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