Fr. Donald Wren Kimball

Ordained: 1969
Status: Convicted

Died: 08/15/2006
Diocese: Diocese of Santa Rosa CA

Placed on leave 1990, accused of the sexual abuse of boys and girls. A civil suit settled in 2000 for $1.6M. Other suits also settled. Convicted of child molestation in June 2002; sentenced to 7 years in prison for abuse of a 13- year-old girl in 1981. The same trial found him not guilty of raping another girl. The Supreme Court overturned a law under which he was criminally convicted. Laicized in 2002; died 9/15/2006. Several settlements in 2005 and 2006. Included on the diocese's list 1/12/2019, noting allegations in 1990 of abuse in the 1980s. Suits were filed in 12/2019 under the CA Child Victims Act claiming abuse of two minors, ages 16 and 17.