PUEBLO (CO)
Pueblo Chieftain
December 1, 2020
By Robert Boczkiewicz
Denver – Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser released a report Tuesday listing new “substantiated” incidents of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the Pueblo Diocese.
All of the newly substantiated incidents occurred between 1951 and 1999, he said. Some of the priests were identified in the attorney general’s first report last year; four are newly identified.
The newly substantiated claims included in Tuesday’s supplemental report concluded 22 months of former U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer’s work investigating and reporting on a 70-year history of Catholic clergy child sexual abuse in Colorado and the Colorado dioceses’ programs and systems for preventing it. Troyer worked for Weiser on the child abuse investigation.
The priests identified in Tuesday’s report include Monsignor Marvin Kapushion, Gary Kennedy, Daniel Maio, John Martin, Duane Repola, Carlos Trujillo, Joseph Walsh, Lawrence Sievers, John Beno, Delbert Blong, Andrew Burke, and William Gleeson.
They served parishes, an orphanage and other Catholic facilities in Pueblo, Rye, La Junta, Walsenburg, Capulin, Grand Junction and Montrose.
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