Fr. Balthasar John Modica
The Diocese was warned several times 1974-1978 about Modica’s behavior. Accused in 12/1978 of smuggling marijuana to a 20-year-old male inmate at a State Reformatory. Pleaded guilty. Given a brief jail sentence. Sent to Paracletes in NM for treatment due to sexual misconduct. Reassigned. Accused in a 2003 lawsuit of abuse of a teenage boy in the mid-1970s. Court of Appeals denied plaintiff’s claim 8/5/2011. Other cases settled. Retired in 2000. “Charter Suspension” 9/13/2002. Died 10/30/2015. Included on the Covington diocese’s list of those with substantiated allegation(s) 7/31/20. On the Lexington diocese’s list in 8/2020. It notes one known Lexington victim and multiple victims elsewhere.
- Lexington Herald-Leader 04.23.03
- Courier-Journal 04.23.03
- Lexington Herald-Leader 02.17.06
- Lexington Herald-Leader 03.04.06
- Courier-Journal (AP) 03.05.06
- Kentucky Post (AP) 03.06.06
- Lexington Herald-Leader 09.22.06
- Courier-Journal 08.08.11
- Kentucky Enquirer 11.03.15
- Diocese of Covington List 07.31.20
- Diocese of Lexington List 08.17.20
- Lexington Herald Leader 09.01.20
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