Fr. Thomas O’Hern

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Order: CM
Ordained: 1977
Status: Accused

Died: 11/11/2014
Diocese: Archdiocese of St. Louis MO

Worked in MO, IL, and Kenya, where he founded and was the Executive Director of Family Hope Charity. Named publicly as accused by the Vincentian Order on its list 11/12/2020. Multiple allegations of abuse occurring in the 1980s reported in 1991. Location of abuse not revealed. Sent to a residential program in St. Louis 11/1991-3/1992. Returned to ministry in Kenya in 1994. Removed from ministry in 2004, left the Order in 2006. Died in 2014. (Placing O’Hern’s entry under St. Louis for now, where the Order is based.) Included in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General’s Report.


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