Fr. Jeffrey David Newell
German. Also known as Jeffrey David Newell Lambert. In 1991 a young man told the Archdiocese that he had been abused for years by Newell from age 15 in 1986, beginning when Newell was a lay youth minister, prior to ordination. The Archdiocese promised that Newell would never work in youth ministry again. Newell was removed from ministry “for other reasons” in 1993. Admitted the abuse, sent to treatment in MD. Found in 2010 working with children as a priest in Tijuana, Mexico. Accuser filed suit in 6/2010 accusing the L.A. Archdiocese of fraud. One of seven priests of the Tijuana, Mexico Archdiocese who were removed without privileges as of 6/20/2014. Case sent to the Vatican. Found by a reporter in 11/2019 working as pastor of a Tijuana parish. Suit filed by a second man in 2/2020 in CA alleging abuse as a young teen by Newell, beginning in 1993. As of 3/2022, Newell was still listed on the Tijuana Archdiocese website, as the pastor of Nuestra Senora de la Encarnacion in Tijuana. As of 5/2023, he was no longer listed with the parish but seemed to still be in active ministry; he was named on the archdiocesan website as the diocesan contact for a charismatic group, Comunidades Católicas Carismáticas de Alianza, and for Koinonia, the archdiocesan radio station that he founded in 2010.
- Associated Press 06.23.10
- Associated Press 06.23.10
- Sacramento Bee 06.30.10
- UNO TV 06.19.14
- Noticieros 06.19.14
- UT-San Diego 06.20.14
- National Catholic Reporter 06.24.14
- Fox 5 06.24.14
- e-Consulta 06.25.14
- ProPublica 03.06.20
- Archdiocese of Tijuana 05.18.23
- Imagen del Golfo 12.03.20
- En Linea BC 12.09.20
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