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Predator priest passes away
He admitted “inappropriate relationships”
Cleric later moved to NV & became a Episcopalian
Victims blast Catholic bishop for “continuing secrecy”
A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is disclosing that a Catholic priest who was accused of molesting children has passed away.
He is Fr. Bede Parry who was working at All Saints Episcopal (4201 W Washington Ave, Las Vegas, NV (702) 878-2373) in 2011 when the allegations against him surfaced. Parry became an Episcopal priest in Las Vegas in 2004 but resigned from his position after the first of two child sex abuse lawsuits against him were filed. He also worked in Missouri, Minnesota and New Mexico.
Parry’s passing was noted on the Facebook page of his lawyer, Joseph Paul Smith:
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In 2011, Parry was sued for allegedly molesting a boy in the late 1980s in northwest Missouri. He admitted to his church supervisors that he had been involved in three “inappropriate relationships.”
Leaders of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, are urging Las Vegas Catholic Bishop Joseph A. Pepe and Episcopal Bishop Dan Edwards to “aggressively seek out anyone else who may have seen, suspected or suffered Fr. Parry’s crimes.”
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