Fr. John Huels
Accused in 1994 of sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy in the 1970s in New Jersey. Admitted the abuse. A second victim came forward. Huels was forced to step down as head of the Chicago-based Servites and went to Africa for a few years. He was hired in 1997 by St. Paul University in Ottawa, ON, Canada. By 2002 he was still a priest as well as a professor and vice dean of canon law at St. Paul’s. St. Paul’s said he took medical leave for the treatment of severe depression in 8/2002 after the allegation surfaced. The Ottawa archbishop said Huels was leaving the Servites and would seek laicization. In 9/2018 he was still a professor of canon law at Saint Paul’s. He was removed from that position after publicity the same month.
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