Fr. William Anthony Christensen

Order: SM
Ordained: 1973
Status: Settled

Diocese: Archdiocese of St. Louis MO

Sued in 2002 by a man alleging sexual abuse by Christensen and Bro. John J. Woulfe at Chaminade Prep in St. Louis, when the boy was ages 15-17 in 1973-1975. The abuse allegedly included oral sex, anal sodomy, and viewing porn. Christensen was not served with the suit until 10/2007. The plaintiff died in 2008; his family settled in 2011. Christensen lived and worked in Bangladesh for 20 years, where he allegedly abused 30 Muslim children. He was laicized in 2010; he appealed the laicization. He was reportedly still in Bangladesh in 6/2018, running an NGO he founded in 2012. He had filed defamation lawsuits against one of his accusers and against a former nun who had reported him to his provincial.

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