Fr. Benjamin G. Smylie
Named publicly as accused by the Dallas diocese on its list 1/31/19. Taught at Jesuit College Prep for many years. Retired in 2002. Died in 2004. Added to the Jesuits Central and Southern Province list 2/27/20. It notes the the allegations against Smylie were received after his death and that the abuse was said to have occurred in the 1980s. Included in a lawsuit by multiple former Dallas Prep students, filed in 8/19, of abuse of a student in 1981. The suit settled in 3/22. Allegedly Smylie plied the boy with alcohol then sexually assaulted him on an overnight at a Jesuit retreat center.
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