Fr. Frank J. O’Hara

Ordained: 1941
Status: Sued

Died: 04/19/2006
Diocese: Diocese of Springfield IL

Two women filed suit in 9/2008 accusing O’Hara of sexually abusing them as girls between 1971 and 1978 while he was assigned to St. Kevin’s Catholic Church in Rosewood Heights. He died in 4/2006 at age 90. Included on the diocese’s 1/29/2018 list of those with substantiated allegations. Included in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General’s Report, which notes 5 “reported survivors.”


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