Fr. Thomas O’Brien
Limited interaction with minors as of 1989. Removed from public ministry 10/4/2002 for abuse of a minor. Worked in Riverview MI 1989-1994. May also have abused in St. Paul, MN area where he worked 1994-2001. Lived under restrictions, performing internal administrative duties for the Crosier Generalate in Rome 1999-2007. Dismissed from the Order 8/5/2008. Living in Ohio as of 3/2014. Name added 11/3/2017 to the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese’s list of “priests and religious brothers who have served or spent time in the archdiocese and have substantiated claims of sexual abuse of a minor against them.” Included on the Detroit Archdiocese’s list 6/10/2019. Per the Order’s list in 12/2023, O’Brien died 1/17/2022.
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