Fr. Carl Peltz

Ordained for the Diocese of Steubenville. Navy chaplain 1984-1987, including in Iceland in 1985, where Peltz allegedly forced a 12-year-old boy to drink whiskey, then raped him. Transferred many times. Federal suit filed in 1991 by the boy and his parents alleged the Steubenville diocese should have known that Peltz had a drinking problem, yet it certified him as fit for service. Suit settled by the diocese in 1993 for $25K. Although Peltz’s obituary states that he was incardinated into the Kalamazoo diocese in 1990, the Official Catholic Directory indicates he was incardinated there in 2002. “Exonerated” in 2003 by the Kalamazoo diocesan review board, which cited it found no credible evidence. Died 12/26/2015. Included in the MI Attorney General’s 5/22/2024 Kalamazoo report, which states he was invited in 1997 to work in Kalamazoo and was incardinated in 2000. Accused in 2008 of making improper advances toward a boy in about 1981 in Marietta, OH. In 2018 the son reportedly said he wasn’t sexually molested but that he was “approached with that in mind.” Peltz allegedly gave the boy alcohol and “drank heavily himself.”