BALTIMORE (MD)
Baltimore Sun
January 14, 2020
By Hallie Miller and Lillian Reed
The Archdiocese of Baltimore has removed from active ministry a retired priest accused of inappropriately touching three women.
Father Joseph O’Meara, who lived at St. Agnes/St. William of York Parish in Catonsville near West Baltimore, was “recently … separately accused by three adult women of touching them inappropriately,” according to a letter signed by Father Isaac Makovo sent to parishioners in December. He no longer lives at the parish’s residences, according to the letter.
All three incidents were reported to church officials within the same day. Two of the women told church officials the incidents took place that same day and the third woman, who decided to come forward after learning of the other women, said she was inappropriately touched two days earlier, Archdiocese spokesman Sean Caine said in an email.
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