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Summary of Case: David F. Reilly was ordained for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in 1975. He served as an assistant in Roselawn and Oxford, and as a chaplain at area hospitals. The Directories show several unexplained gaps between assignments in the 1980s. In 1987 he became a military chaplain, stationed in Niceville FL, Seattle WA, Wright Patterson OH and San Antonio TX. Reilly returned to Cincinnati in 1996, serving as parish pastor in South Fairmont and then in Shandon OH.
In 2006 a man reported to the archdiocese that Reilly had engaged in inappropriate contact with him when the man was 13- to 14 years-old in the 1970s and the priest was assigned to Our Mother of Sorrows in Roselawn. Reilly acknowledged contact with the boy, but said it was not inappropriate or sexual. He was placed on administrative leave. In February 2014, after a Church tribunal determined that he was not proven guilty of the allegations against him, the archdiocese announced that Reilly was free to return to ministry. He has since been listed in the Directories as retired.
Ordained: 1975
Retired: 2014
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