SAN FRANCISCO (CA)
San Francisco Chronicle
October 18, 2018
By Kimberly Veklerov
The Catholic Diocese of San Jose on Thursday released the names of 15 former clergy members who were known by the church to be credible child sex abusers.
All of the priests on the list are either dead or permanently banned from the ministry. Don Flickinger, who was sued for sexual abuse years ago, was described as currently being with the Fresno diocese, though that could not be immediately confirmed. Flickinger also was described as having been permanently banned from from the ministry in 2006.
The allegations of sexual misconduct, which were not described in detail, spanned 1961 to the early 2000s. The 15 men were assigned to a parish or diocesan ministry in Santa Clara County by the bishop of San Jose or, before the diocese was founded in 1981, by the archbishop of San Francisco.
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