Fr. David Leary
Named publicly as accused in the 4/5/2023 MD Attorney General’s Report. Leary’s personnel file shows concerns about him by his superiors as early as 1961, with references to his “violent outbursts” and a “nervous problem,” as well as “problems of various kinds since his ordination.” Worked in the Diocese of Paranagua, Brazil 1967-1971, whose bishop, Bernard Jose Nolker, offered to have Leary live in his home due to Leary’s problems. Returned to parish work, as an associate pastor at Shrine of the Little Flower in Baltimore. In 10/2013 a man reported that Leary sexually abused at the parish when he was a 4th-grader in 1971.
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