SACRAMENTO (CA)
ABC 10 News
December 7, 2018
By Giacomo Luca
Eleven priests who served in Sacramento over the last 50 years were among a list of priests with credible sexual abuse allegations against children, the Catholic Jesuit West province released on Friday.
The priests served in the Diocese of Sacramento at Jesuit High School, St. Ignatius of Loyola Parish or St. Elizabeth Parish, Bishop Jaime Soto of the Sacramento Diocese said in a statement.
In October, the Sacramento Diocese announced that it had begun compiling a list of priests credibly accused of who served in the organization.
“We are compiling that list now, and have enlisted the help of an independent auditor respected for her work in protecting children and the vulnerable from abuse,” Soto said.
Dan McNevin, 59, was abused by a priest in the Oakland diocesed when he was a child, he said.
Now, he’s an advocate with the Survivor’s Network of those Abused by Priests, a national support network of more than 25,000 members who have been abused by clergy.
“A lot of people are devastated by this,” McNevin said. “This is a rape of the soul, not just of the body. Because these priests are there spiritual conduits to heaven.”
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