MOBILE (AL)
WKRG TV
February 3, 2019
By Peter Albrecht
Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich says no one has come forward to make a criminal complaint against any of the surviving clergy members listed by the local Catholic church as likely child molesters. In addition, Rich says she’s received no cooperation from the local archdiocese.
In December, Mobile Archbishop Thomas Rodi released a list of 29 priests, deacons, brothers and other church officials “credibly accused of sexual misconduct with a child” since 1950 in an effort to put the church’s sexual abuse scandal to rest.
“We have zero tolerance,” the Archbishop said. “No one with a credible accusation is going to serve in the Archdiocese of Mobile.”
Of the 29 priests and others named, however, only two ever went to prison for crimes committed here. Brother Vic Bendillo a teacher at McGill-Toolen for almost 40 years was convicted in 2004 of abusing a boy and served 28 months. Deacon Robert Nouwen who served at St. Vincent’s in Tillman’s Corner was convicted of possessing child porn in 2013 but was not charged with the rapes of two children, which he admitted to federal prosecutors.
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