Fr. Lawrence Gerard Smith

Status: Convicted

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Francisco CA

Member of an “old Catholic sect”. Sentenced in 1/1984 to 8 months in jail for molesting Vietnamese boys who did not speak English. Abuse occurred in 1983. There may have been as many as six victims. Also convicted in 1977 of a sex offense involving a 10-year-old boy.


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