BATON ROUGE (LA)
The Advocate
February 8, 2019
By Andrea Gallo
The Diocese of Baton Rouge is adding Timothy Sugrue, a priest who served for at least seven years in St. James Parish, to its list of Catholic clergymen who have been credibly accused of sexual abuse.
With the addition of Sugrue, the diocese’s list now includes 38 clerics who served under its umbrella who stand credibly accused of sexual abuse of a minor. The Advocate reported Tuesday that Sugrue had been left off the diocese’s list even though he was targeted by a high-profile lawsuit in Arkansas and was included on a similar list from the Diocese of Little Rock last year.
Dan Borné, a spokesman for the Diocese of Baton Rouge, said the diocese has yet to receive any credible allegations against Sugrue from his time at St. Michael the Archangel in Convent and St. Joseph Church in Paulina. The Marist priest left the Diocese of Baton Rouge in 1987.
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