LAFAYETTE (LA)
Daily Advertiser
April 6, 2019
By Andrew J. Yawn
The list of priests accused of sexual abuse while serving in the Lafayette diocese is expected to be released soon, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette said Friday.
The diocese received a report from the committee in charge of assembling the list last week, said spokeswoman Blue Rolfes.
“Getting close to releasing it,” Rolfes said in a brief phone interview last week, although she offered no specific timeline.
The Lafayette diocese is one of two in the state that have not yet released a comprehensive list of priests who had credible complaints of sexual abuse made against them. The Diocese of Lake Charles is the other. The state’s four other dioceses have released their information.
Members of the Lafayette diocese’s lay review board and local attorneys have spent months searching for accusations against clergy by combing through 50 years of personnel records for the hundreds of priests who have served in the diocese, Rolfes has said.
But this is not the first time Rolfes has said the list would be released in short order. In a Daily Advertiser story first published on Feb. 11, Rolfes said they hoped “within the next week or two to release the list,” a timeline that has long since passed.
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