Fr. Daniel J. Mangen/Mangan
American. Missionary in South America. Accused of sexually abusing and raping a girl for three years beginning when she was 16 years old at a Catholic high school in Cleveland OH (U.S.) in the early 1980s. Mangen denied the allegations but acknowledged having been “sexually active” with minors and adults. In 1984, he was transferred to Chile. He became a parish priest in the rural town of Tralcao, located in the southern municipality of Mariquina [Valdiva Province, Los Rios Region]. In 2002, a Cleveland TV reporter found Mangen ministering at St. Sebastian church in the Chilean town of Purranque [Osorno Province]. In 2005, according to the Official Catholic Directory, he was working as a priest at San Francisco de Borja in Lima, Peru. Not included on Chilean bishops’ public list of guilty clerics. Believed to be in Valdivia, Chile as of 11/2010 (not as a priest).
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