Fr. Thomas Pitsch

Ordained: 1941
Status: Settled

Died: 05/8/1978
Diocese: Archdiocese of Seattle WA

Name included on archdiocese’s list 1/15/2016. Settlement announced by the Archdiocese with a man claiming sexual abuse as a boy by Pitsch over a three-year period, at St. Patrick’s in Tacoma. The abuse allegedly began when the boy was age 8 in about 1966. The man came forward after seeing Pitsch’s name on the Archdiocese’s list in 2016. Pitsch died in 1978.


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