MANSFIELD (OH)
Mansfield News Journal
October 14, 2018
By Emily Mills
A Mansfield-area priest has been placed on leave after an allegation was recently made of sexual abuse of a minor more than 25 years ago, the Diocese of Toledo announced Saturday.
Bishop Daniel E. Thomas said in a press release Father Nelson Beaver, a priest of the Diocese of Toledo, has been placed on administrative leave, effective immediately.
Beaver is the pastor of Resurrection Parish, 2600 Lexington Ave., Lexington, and St. Mary of the Snows Parish, 1630 Ashland Road, Madison Township. The allegation was not made in relation to those parish assignments, according to the press release.
Beaver is no longer residing at those parishes while on administrative leave, according to the press release. Beaver denied the allegation, the only one that’s been made against him, according to the Diocese of Toledo.
“We take every allegation of abuse of a minor with the utmost seriousness,” Thomas said in the press release. “Administrative leave is a first, precautionary step that safeguards and protects children while we start a canonical process of determining whether the allegation can be substantiated and whether a priest should remain in ministry.”
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