Fr. Joseph Henry Penkaul

Ordained: 1968
Status: Indicted

Died: 09/2/2008
Diocese: Diocese of Buffalo NY

The diocese reviewed an allegation in 2018 by a man who reported that Penkaul sexually abused him when the man was age 14 or 15. Penkaul died in 2008.


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