Fr. Patrick J. Cotter
From Ireland. Accused in a 2003 lawsuit of sexually abusing a teenage girl while assigned to St. Joseph’s in Pomona 1963-1964. The abuse was reported to the Archdiocese in 1975, after which the Archdiocese recommended he retire. In 2004 the Archdiocese counted two accusers, of abuse 1963-1964.
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