Fr. Peter Mascari

Ordained: 1952
Status: Settled

Died: 12/30/2002
Diocese: Diocese of Springfield IL

In 1993 a woman told the diocese that Mascari began grooming her from the age of 8, then began sexually abusing her when she was 18 in 1975 and until 1989. She told her story in a book in 2007, and first spoke his name publicly in 2019. She said she settled with the diocese in 1994. Mascari died in 2002.


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