Fr. William L. Santry
In 2005 a woman reported to the archdiocese that Santry sexually abused her in the late 1960s, when she was a 16-year-old Our Lady of Loreto parishioner in South Philadelphia. Santry admitted to the abuse. The woman said she was also molested during that time at the same parish by Rev. Joseph DiGregorio. Santry told investigators in 2005 that he recalled that the girl had spent time in the rectory with DiGregorio and that he thought there was something like “fondling” going on. Santry had voluntarily left the priesthood in 1971. His laicization by the Vatican was announced 2006. Santry’s name was included in the Philadelphia Grand Jury Report II, released 2/10/11.
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