Database of Publicly Accused

Trunk's name is included in 10/2021 on the Franciscans' Holy Name Province list of those with substantiated allegations against them of child sexual abuse. No details provided as to when or where the abuse occurred. He died in 2011 at age 91. (Placing him for now in the New York archdiocese, where the Province is based.)

"Sam." Ordained for the Diocese of Tarbes-Lourdes, France. Incardinated in 1971 into the Diocese of Fresno. Included in 2021 on the Fresno diocese's list of credibly accused. Noted to have left the diocese in 1974 to work as a US Navy chaplain and to have died in 1994. Per his obituary, Tambourin was a Navy chaplain for 20 years. At the time of his death he was pastor of St. Mary of the Mountains in Virginia City and a chaplain at Fallon Naval Base.

Named publicly as accused by the Crosier Order on its list 12/6/2023. Worked in IN, CO, Indonesia. Died 3/27/1998. Allegation noted to have been received after Trenkenschuh's death.

Left ministry in the late 1960s. In 1979 Tague received a three-year suspended sentence and three years probation for embezzling $30K in 1976 from a halfway house for juvenile delinquents he headed. Accused in 2002 of sexually abusing a boy in 1971 at the Department of Youth Services facility. Sued in 2002 in a multi-plaintiff suit. Involuntary laicization announced in 3/2006. Included in 8/2011 on the Boston archdiocese's list. Accused in a lawsuit settled in 11/2021 in the high five figures of sexually abusing a boy, age 7, 1965 at St. Benedict's in Somerville. The abuse is said to have occurred twice, in a confessional. Tague died in 2013.

Named publicly as credibly accused by the Davenport diocese on its list in 2/2022. Accused of the sexual abuse of two female minors. Earliest claimed abuse in 1963.

Included on the Irish Christian Brothers' North American Province list in 2014 of former and deceased brothers with at least two claims of sexual abuse against them, as required by its bankruptcy settlement in 2014. No details provided as to when and where the alleged abuse occurred.  

Accused in a lawsuit filed in 6/21 under the NY Child Victims Act of sexually abusing a boy, age 10 or 11, in about 1976, while assigned to Church of the Incarnation in New York. Thompson is alleged to have abused the boy at the church on one occasion after choir practice, along with Msgr. Thomas P. Leonard and Mr. Dennis O'Driscoll.

Professed vows as a Capuchin brother 2/28/1955. Worked in MD and PA. Died in 2001. Named publicly as accused in the 4/5/2023 MD Attorney General's Report. Accused in 2008 of sexually abusing an altar boy, age 12 or 13, in 1959 while assigned to St. Peter and St. Paul in Cumberland, MD. The alleged victim received a $50K settlement with the Archdiocese in 2004.

Reportedly in 4/2002, Tomicky was not in active ministry because of allegations in the past of the abuse of minors. Worked in parishes in Akron, Strongsville and Cleveland. Per the Official Catholic Directory, he was absent on leave 1984-1987 and 1988-1989. Died in 2/2020. His obituary states that in 1980 he became an Air Force chaplain; the Directories show him as a missionary in El Salvador 1980-1983. The obituary also shows that in 3/1987 he was a Huron Road and University Hospital chaplain, then assigned as resident chaplain 7/1988 at St. John's Hospital. He retired in 1989. Noted on the diocese's list 6/21/2019 to be retired with total and permanent disability and no faculties for public ministry; ministry restricted due to an allegation which had not yet been substantiated. The main celebrant at his funeral mass was Auxiliary Bishop Roger Gries. 

Named publicly as credibly accused by the Orlando diocese on its list 10/6/2021. Shown on the list as Joseph Tran Anh Dung. Listed in the 1988 Official Catholic Directory as Joseph Tran. Per an Orlando Sentinel news article in 1986, Tran was to leave the diocese for Switzerland.

"Liam." Ordained in Ireland for the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Worked in South America 1972-1975 with the Society of St. James the Apostle Missions, then the Archdiocese of Boston 1975-1990. Incardinated into Boston 1986. Left the priesthood in 1990. Named publicly as accused in the 3/24/2023 GA PAC Report. The Archdiocese received a report in 2013 that Tuffy sexually abused a boy, age 12, at St. Jude's in Sandy Springs, GA, where he was assigned 1970-1972. Per his accuser, Tuffy was living in 2013 in Ireland and was shown on Facebook to be a retired Fireman.