Fr. Edward G. Ganster
First named publicly as accused in the 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report. Included on the diocese’s 8/19/2018 list of credibly accused. In 1977 a woman told the diocese that her 13-year-old son had been sexually abused by Ganster. Reassigned. A 37-year-old man told the diocese in 2002 that Ganster abused him for a year and a half beginning when he was a 14-year-old altar boy at St. Joseph’s in Frackville. The man again contacted the diocese in 2004. His reports were not sent to the D.A. until 2007. Accused in 2015 of abusing a 12-year-old boy in the summer of 1977. Put on sick leave in 1987, sent to St. John Vianney in Downington for treatment in 1988. Request for laicization in 1990, granted. Wanted to marry a woman he met at St. John Vianney and to work at Disney World. Diocese provided a reference for the job; Ganster worked at Disney World for 18 years. Died 7/3/2014.
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