Fr. Alan D. Jupin

Parish priest, police chaplain. Accused in 2003 of raping a 16-year-old boy in the mid-1970s and sharing him with 3 priests (Douglas, Ophals, Cawlings). Accused in a 5/2003 lawsuit of intimidating his accuser; the D.A. investigated. The same man filed suit in 8/2003, claiming the Diocese slandered him. In 6/2003 another man came forward to allege that Jupin sexually abused him as a boy in the 1970s. The suits filed by the first alleged victim to come forward were dismissed 1/30/2004. Jupin was reinstated when the diocese’s review board found no “reasonable grounds” for believing the two charges. In Fall 2010 a man alleged Jupin sexually abused him beginning when he was age 9 in the 1980s. He said he was also abused by Revs. Donald Ophals, John Bertolucci, Louis Douglas and Carl Urban. Jupin was placed on leave in 3/2011, then reinstated in 11/2011. He died 1/27/2019. Another lawsuit was filed in 8/2019. His name was added in 7/2020 to the Diocese’s list of credibly accused after allegations in 2019 were determined by the diocese to have “reasonable cause.” Accused in a lawsuit filed in 7/2021 under the NY Child Victims Act of sexually abusing a boy, age 9, in 1965. This was at least the 11th such suit filed since 2019.