ALLENTOWN (PA)
Morning Call
September 12, 2018
By Tim Darragh
Asexual abuse allegation against the Rev. David C. Gillis, a Catholic priest who was suspended from ministry last month, is false, Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams said Wednesday.
The Allentown Diocese said Gillis’ suspension was lifted and that he is being returned as a priest in good standing.
Gillis, an Allentown diocesan priest serving in Cocoa Beach, Fla., had been suspended for what the Rev. John Giel, chancellor for canonical affairs for the Orlando Diocese, referred to as an allegation with “at least a semblance of truth.”
It was made Aug. 24 through ChildLine, Pennsylvania’s child abuse hotline, by the father of a woman who said she was sexually abused as a child.
The woman later told investigators she was not abused by Gillis and detectives could find no evidence to substantiate the allegation, Adams said in a news release.
“The father did not have any basis to name Rev. David C. Gillis, but mentioned him because he was a priest at St. John the Baptist de La Salle School in Shillington, Berks County,” Adams said.
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