Fr. Michael P. Pecharich
Removed in 2002. Admitted to molesting a teenage boy 19 years previously. Accused of abusing four minors 1974-84, per L.A. archdiocesan report. Also on list of accused released by Orange diocese. Named in at least one civil suit. Laicized. Accused in a claim settled in 2020 in the low five figures of sexually abusing an altar boy, ages 9-10 in 1977-78, while assigned to St. Edward the Confessor in Dana Point.
- Garabedian Law Offices Assignment Record
- OC Weekly 03.04.05
- LA Archdiocesan Report Addendum 11.15.05
- LA Times Database 04.20.06
- Documents from Complaint File of Orange Diocese
- Letter from Mother of Victim to Bishop Brown 03.30.02
- LA Times 01.11.04
- LA Archdiocesan Report 02.17.04
- LA Times 05.18.05
- Orange County Register 05.18.05
- LA Times 05.25.05
- Random Lengths News 01.12.06
- Orange County Register 09.13.07
- Orange County Weekly 09.27.07
- Orange County Weekly 09.27.07
- Diocese of Orange 08.12.16
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