Fr. Dino Cinel
Historian and teacher at Tulane, living at St. Rita’s in 1988 when fellow priest found him with child porn and tapes he made of himself having sex with teen boys in the rectory. Not known publicly for over two years. Cinel admitted to several years of sexual activity with minor boys, particularly in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Criminal charges filed in 1991 for possession of child porn; acquitted in criminal trial 8/95 on a technicality. Had married a woman and had two children, taught at City U. of NY on Staten Island until suspended. Separated from wife. Ended up in Colombia. Laicized in 2010, divorced in 2015. One civil suit settled. In 2011 he surfaced in Italy, claiming sexual abuse as a child and petitioning the Vatican for justice. Murdered 2/1/18 in Medellin, Colombia by an 18-year-old male who said he was Cinel’s lover. On archdiocese’s list 11/2/18.
- Washington Times 05.14.91
- Washington Times 05.14.91
- Washington Times 05.16.91
- Washington Times 05.17.91
- Washington Times 05.20.91
- Washington Times 05.31.91
- Associated Press 01.10.92
- NY Times 02.24.92
- Houston Chronicle 09.27.92
- Times-Picayune 03.31.93
- Chicago Tribune 12.22.93
- Times-Picayune 12.01.94
- Times-Picayune 08.22.95
- Times-Picayune 08.25.95
- Times-Picayune 08.26.95
- Times-Picayune 07.23.11
- Times-Picayune 07.27.11
- SNAP Statement 07.28.11
- New Orleans Advocate 03.26.18
- NOLA com /Times-Picaynue 03.26.18
- American Conservative 03.27.18
- New Orleans Advocate 10.30.18
- Archdiocese of New Orleans list 11.02.18
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