BATON ROUGE (LA)
The Advocate
February 3, 2018
By Gordon Russell
The Diocese of Baton Rouge has determined that an abuse allegation it received against a Gonzales parish priest could not be substantiated.
Father Eric Gyan, pastor of St. Theresa of Avila Parish, “continues to serve as a priest in good standing and of good reputation,” the diocese said in a news release issued Saturday evening.
The abuse was alleged to have occurred in 1996, when Gyan was pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish in Brusly. The victim, now 31, reported the matter to the diocese in November. The woman had told The Advocate that Gyan forced her to perform sex acts on him on multiple occasions when she was 10 and attended the church in Brusly. She said the abuse occurred in the confessional.
The woman made a separate complaint around the same time with the Diocese of Biloxi involving a priest at a church on the Gulf Coast that she attended during the 1990s. The status of that complaint — which church officials confirmed in December was under investigation — could not be determined Saturday
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