DALLAS (TX)
WFAA 8 ABC
February 7, 2019
By Jobin Panicker
Father Patrick Koch was a former principal and president at Jesuit College Preparatory School in Dallas.
If you walk into John Patrick Korman’s home, you will see an abundance of school pride.
“It’s walking into Jesuit,” said Korman, a graduate of Jesuit Preparatory School in Dallas.
He was class of 1970 and once a teacher at Jesuit for five years, teaching film-making.
But any pride he has is masked now by the news that came out last week.
“It’s the five stages of grief,” Korman said. “I’m not sure which one I’m in now.”
The Catholic Diocese of Dallas released names of 31 priests “credibly accused” of sexual abuse of minors over the last seven decades. On that list was Father Patrick Koch, who was a former principal and president at Jesuit College Preparatory School in Dallas.
Korman has been in contact with alumni through a series of emails, which he released to WFAA.
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