Fr. Daniel Free
Named publicly as accused by the Baltimore archdiocese on its list 4/24/2019. Allegations to the archdiocese in 1998 and 2012, reported to law enforcement and the Passionists. Removed from ministry in 2000. Died 6/11/2016. Included in the 4/5/2023 MD Attorney General’s Report, which shows that both victims were girls and both reported that the abuse involved torture and other men who were wearing masks, and that Free was not wearing a mask. One said she was abused in the mid-1950s at about age 5, and the other at age 13-14 in the mid-1960s.
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