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Fr. Emmanuel O. Omemaga

Ordained: 1983
Status: Charged

Diocese: Diocese of San Diego CA

From the Philippines. Arrived in San Diego in 1990. Charged in 1993 with 40 counts of abusing a 14-year-old girl just after returning from Pope John Paul II's Mass in Denver in 8/93. The girl's mother told the Diocese and he confessed. Surrendered faculties in 10/93 and fled to the Philippines. Considered a fugitive from criminal charges. Civil suit also filed. Name included on 3/07 San Diego list of credibly accused priests. Still a fugitive in 2010. Personnel file released 10/10.

San Diego priest who covered up sex assault placed in charge of sex abuse hotline

December 7, 2015

CALIFORNIA
The Raw Story

TOM BOGGIONI
07 DEC 2015

A group representing victims of sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests has blasted the San Diego Catholic Diocese for appointing a priest who admitted to destroying documents detailing sexual assaults to oversee their sex abuse hotline.

Likening him to “an admitted embezzler [who] shouldn’t oversee bank accounts,” Melanie Sakoda of SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) said Fr. Steven Callahan shouldn’t be allowed to “oversee abuse reports.”

Callahan is listed as the Victims’ Assistance Coordinator on the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego website — with a phone number to call the priest as well as an email address.

In a court deposition in 2007, after approximately 150 men and women filed suit against the San Diego diocese over sexual abuse claims, Callahan admitted to destroying documents in the early 90’s implicating a fellow priest.

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