GREEN BAY (WI)
Press-Gazette
June 5, 2019
By Haley BeMiller
The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay last month identified another priest who molested a child, amending its list of known abusers with little public notice.
The diocese on May 23 added Steven Scherer to the list of priests who sexually abused minors over the past century. Scherer, who died in 1999, was determined by the diocese to have committed a single instance of abuse around 1980 or 1981. The allegation surfaced after his death.
Scherer served at St. Jude Catholic Church in Green Bay at the time of the abuse, according to the diocese. He also worked at Appleton’s St. Elizabeth Hospital, now known as Ascension St. Elizabeth Hospital, from 1984 to 1993.
After years of public pressure, the Green Bay diocese in January released the names of 46 priests with “substantiated” allegations of sexual abuse of minors, 15 of whom are still alive. Officials quietly modified the initial disclosure list in April with the name of a 47th priest, along with additional incidents of abuse by previously named clergy.
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