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Summary of Case: A priest of the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus ordained in 1947, John Thatcher spent his early career teaching at Jesuit high schools in Tacoma and Spokane, Washington. From 1957-1983 he was assistant priest at St. Ignatius parish in Portland, Oregon, and again 1983-1994. During the intervening decade Thatcher assisted at St. Aloysius in Spokane. He retired to Regis Jesuit Community in Spokane in 1994 and died in 2003. Thatcher was accused in a claim against the Portland, Oregon archdiocese of having sexually abused a 6-year-old boy in 1963.
Ordained: 1947
Died: Nov. 19, 2003
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