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Summary of Case: Scott J. Kallal was ordained in 2011 in Kansas City, Kansas for the Rome-based Apostles of the Interior Life. His whereabouts until 2014 are unclear; the 2013 and 2014 Catholic Directories show that he was assigned to “Further Studies.” During 2014-2016 Kallal was an assistant priest at St. Patrick’s in Kansas City, after which he was assigned to the same role at Holy Spirit in Overland Park.
In July 2017 Kallal was suspended from public ministry, after the archdiocese received allegations from two different sources that he had engaged in “boundary violations.” A man stated publicly that, in the summer of 2015, Kallal had tickled his 11-year-old daughter and touched her breast at a church gathering. Kallal denied “any moral misconduct or malicious intent” and was sent to Maryland for treatment. He was arrested shortly thereafter, on charges of two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child.
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