Fr. Richard Scully

Accused in a 1994 civil lawsuit of abusing a 15-year-old boy in 1980 at parish school. The suit claims Fr. Dale Calhoun also abused the youth. Removed from parish in Yakima diocese in 1988 and sent to treatment. Later moved to Hereford TX. Working in Amarillo TX 1989-3/2002 when he resigned. At least two claims settled confidentially. A Seattle priest stated publicly in 2004 that Scully abused him in the 1970s when he was 15; reported to church in 2003. Name included on Seattle archdiocese’s list 1/15/2016. Accused in a 4/2019 suit, along with three other priests, of abuse of a Yakima boy in the 1970s and 1980s at St. Andrew’s parish and at a YMCA building used by the diocese. This accuser said the abuse began when he was age 10, and that it included being forced into sex acts with other boys. Laicized. Included on Yakima’s list 7/9/2019. A 2020 lawsuit settled, per the diocese’s list updated in 11/2021, and the abuse was not substantiated. Per the list updated 3/15/2023, Scully is deceased.