Fr. Mark Fleming

Accused in a 2002 civil lawsuit of sexually abusing three brothers, ages 9, 11, and 12, in 1983. The  assaults were reported in 1983 and the case went to the Attorney General’s office. In an agreement that Fleming would instead undergo continued treatment, the case was not prosecuted. Fleming admitted to the abuse. He was sent to the House of Affirmation in MO for two years, then was granted faculties to minister in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, was assigned to a parish. In 1986 the parish pastor complained to the bishop about what the bishop said were “small problems” not like the “big problems” that “brought him here.” His faculties were revoked and Fleming left the priesthood. The Diocese did not include him on list of accused priests released in 2/2002, explaining that it was because they thought he had died in 1997. He was, however, alive. Fleming is said to have gone on to become a Unitarian minister in Charlestown NH. Included on the Diocese’s list released in 7/2019. Laicized. Added to the St. Louis archdiocese’s list in 8/2019.