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Deposition transcripts provided by the ASF were taken as part of legal proceedings against the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, The Servants of the Paraclete, their clergy, and occasionally additional entities of the Catholic Church located in states outside of New Mexico. The sub-series also includes a small number of deposition summaries and sworn statements. Case numbers have been redacted to protect the privacy of survivors, therefore the transcripts are organized by deponent/witness and the date of deposition. Names of accused clergy have been indexed when possible. Many depositions, while centered on a specific claim, may include testimony related to additional accused priests.

Records from 2015

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Deposition of Fr. Laurier Labreche 2015, Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Santa Fe (N.M.)

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Deposition of A.W. Richard Sipe 2015, Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Santa Fe (N.M.)

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The Catholic school in Morristown named after a bishop who oversaw the church in Vermont for 20 years is changing its name, partly because of the “unthinkable” alleged sexual abuse of children by priests under his leadership.

Bishop John A. Marshall School will change its name to All Saints Catholic Academy starting July 1. The change comes as the school prepares to mark its 25th anniversary.

“While we did not discuss this with the students, we would be remiss not to acknowledge that part of our motivation to rename the school relates to the unthinkable abuse of children by priests who were under the leadership of the school’s namesake, Bishop John Marshall,” head of school Carrie Wilson wrote in a May 8 letter to parents. “While our school is not responsible for what transpired — nor can we change what happened years before the school was even built — we…

The Roman Catholic Diocese in Burlington has been served with another lawsuit alleging that a priest sexually abused a young boy in the 1970s. 

The lawsuit filed in Chittenden County Superior Court on Tuesday alleges that the church negligently employed and assigned throughout the country a priest with a history of sexual abuse who preyed upon a minor while he was stationed in New Jersey. 

The church in 2019 published Leo Courcy’s name along with those of 40 others it said had been credibly accused of abusing children. 

The case is being brought by Christopher Silletti, who is represented by Jessica Arbour, an attorney with Horowitz Law. The firm has represented victims in a number of church sexual abuse cases. Silletti, 49, is seeking damages of an unspecified amount. 

The suit argues that the diocese made “a purposeful effort to conceal the horrific misdeeds of Diocesan priests” and “misrepresented to Plaintiff,…

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington is facing a new lawsuit with claims of child sex abuse and a cover-up.

The plaintiff in the case claims that when he was a child, Father Leo Courcy sexually abused him multiple times starting in 1978.

According to the lawsuit, the diocese knew Courcy was treated for psychosexual disorder in the late 1960s, but he continued to serve under the bishop of Burlington even when working outside of Vermont.

“We have not yet been officially served with that lawsuit, so we don’t have a copy of that complaint. So at this point we have nothing to comment on,” said Monsignor John McDermott of the Burlington Diocese.

The diocese has Father Courcy on its list of priests credibly accused of child sexual abuse.

Courcy was ordained in Vermont in 1962.

A New Jersey man is suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington over sexual abuse dating to 1978 involving a since-disgraced priest who was under the diocese’s authority.

The civil complaint, filed in Vermont Superior Court on Tuesday, accuses the diocese of allowing the Rev. Leo Courcy Jr. to continue his ministry for decades with “unfettered” access to children, despite knowing he was a pedophile.

Courcy worked in Vermont for a little more than three years following his ordainment in 1962 but held church positions around the country until his priestly faculties were revoked by Bishop Kenneth Angell in 1993, according to biographical details published in 2019 as part of the diocese’s public accounting of abusive priests. He spent time in the late 1960s at an infamous treatment site for priests run out of Jemez Springs, N.M., by a Catholic religious community known as Servants…

The United States Bishops Are Releasing Lists of Priests Who Are Credibly Accused of Sexual Abuse. But There is No Consistency in What Data is Included in These Lists or How They Are Disclosed.

Think back a couple of decades. Remember how survivors and advocates deplored the stunning disparity that characterized how both the accusers and the accused were treated based solely on where the reported abuse happened? A case in Chicago, for instance, was handled very differently from a case across the state line in Milwaukee or across another state line in Gary, Indiana.

These disparities were supposed to end in 2002. That year, gathered in Dallas, all of the United States bishops adopted a first-ever allegedly binding nationwide church abuse policy mandating ‘openness’ and ‘transparency’ in this scandal.

But for the most part, consistency just isn’t happening. Each bishop continues to act as he sees fit, despite the…

TAOS (NM)
The Taos News

May 23, 2019

By Cody Hooks

Two men who were parishioners of Questa’s St. Anthony Church in the late 1960s have named a former priest as a sexual abuser in a lawsuit filed last week, marking another instance of alleged abuse by clergy associated with the beleaguered Catholic Church in New Mexico.

The lawsuit alleges Leo Courcy sexually abused the two boys on an overnight stay at the church rectory in the summer of 1969. One boy was raped and the other molested, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday (May 16) in the 2nd Judicial District Court in Albuquerque.

The lawsuit was filed against the Servants of the Paraclete, a largely inactive religious order that was founded in New Mexico in the 1940s, and its private foundation.

Aside from the sexual abuse allegations, the lawsuit also lays blame on the higher-ups of the Servants…

NEW MEXICO
BishopAccountability.org

SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
COUNTY OF BERNALILLO
STATE OF NEW MEXICO

JOHN DOE “C”,

Plaintiff,
v.
ARCHDIOCESE OF SANTA FE, and
QUEEN OF HEAVEN PARISH,
Albuquerque, NM,

Defendants.

COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES
FOR CAUSING SEXUAL ABUSE BY PRIESTS,
FAILURE TO PREVENT SEXUAL ABUSE BY PRIESTS,
FOR THE SEXUAL ABUSE ITSELF, AND RELATED CLAIMS
…

31. The Archdiocese allowed a culture of abuse to take root in New Mexico in the decades prior to the rape of Plaintiff. The Archdiocese even fostered this culture of abuse by implementing a code of silence regarding allegations of abuse against its priests, and by transferring abusive priests from parish to parish when rumors of abuse began to stir. To this day, the Archdiocese does not want the public to know the extent of the abuse of minors by its priests, the number…

NEW MEXICO
BishopAccountability.org

SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
COUNTY OF BERNALILLO
STATE OF NEW MEXICO

JOHN DOE “B”,

Plaintiff,
v.
ARCHDIOCESE OF SANTA FE, and
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE PARISH,
Albuquerque, NM,

Defendants.

COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES
FOR CAUSING SEXUAL ABUSE BY PRIESTS,
FAILURE TO PREVENT SEXUAL ABUSE BY PRIESTS,
FOR THE SEXUAL ABUSE ITSELF, AND RELATED CLAIMS
…

According to publicly available documents, the Archdiocese created, fostered, developed and protected a culture that during the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, employed over 40 pedophile priests out of a total of about 150 employed parish priests over those years. This figure is one of the highest ratios in the United States of ‘number of pedophiles to total priests employed’.

27. According to publicly available documents, the names of other pedophile priests of that era include: Father Andrew Abdon; Father Lionel Abeywickrema; Father Marvin…