Fr. John J. Padian
Named publicly as accused by the Brooklyn diocese on its list in 2/2019. Died 10/29/1995. Added in 2020 to the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s list, where he was assigned as a deacon to a parish in the late 1960s until 1970. Included in the 4/5/2023 MD Attorney General’s Report. It shows that, in 2007, a woman reported that Padian sexually abused her in Baltimore in 1979, when she was about age 12. He was a close family friend; the abuse occurred when he was staying with the family during a vacation in Baltimore. The woman said she told a priest of the abuse during confession in Westminster MD between 2000-2003, and that the priest recommend she report it.
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