Fr. Howard E. Fitzgerald
Removed without privileges from his assignments at Simpson College, St. Thomas Aquinas parish in Indianola and Immaculate Conception in St. Marys 6/30/2014 after the Diocese declared decades-old child sex abuse allegation to be credible. On the diocese’s list 4/4/2019, which notes two allegations received of abuse of males in the late 1970s-late 1980s. Laicized.
- TribTown 06.30.14
- Statement by Diocese of Des Moines 06.30.14
- Statement by SNAP 06.30.14
- Radio Iowa 06.30.14
- Des Moines Register 06.30.14
- KCCI 07.01.14
- Des Moines Register 07.01.14
- Omaha World-Herald 07.02.14
- WOWT 07.03.14
- USA Today 08.23.17
- Diocese of Des Moines List 04.04.19
- The Simpsonian 04.04.19
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