Fr. Richard Patrick Davis

Ordained: 1963
Status: Sued

Died: 05/20/2020
Diocese: Diocese of Little Rock AR

Accused in a 4/2023 lawsuit of fondling an altar boy, age 10, twice in 1981. Davis was pastor at the time of St. James in Searcy and St. Albert in Heber Springs. The abuse allegedly occurred during a week-long altar boy training program at St. James, during which the accuser and another boy were staying with Davis. Davis died in 5/2020.


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