Fr. Henry E. Strassner
“Very Rev.” First named as accused in the 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report. Included on the Allentown diocese’s 8/19/2018 list of credibly accused. Parish priest, pastor, educator, held prominent chancery positions. Admitted when confronted in 1988 to kissing a 19-year-old male on the lips four times during a counseling session. Sent to a counselor who said there was “a lot more going on here than Father Strassner has admitted.” Two more complaints in 1991 of past child sex abuse, one a boy ages 6-8. Sick leave 8/1/1993-2/18/1994, sent to Paracletes in NM for treatment. Accused in 2001 of sexual advances toward a 31-year-old man during a counseling session. In 2004 a man told the diocese that Strassner sexually assaulted him during counseling or confession in 1977 when the man was age 26 or 27. This accuser wrote down the names of 25 or 30 others he alleged Strassner sexual assaulted. In 11/2011 a 63-year-old man reported sex abuse, including oral copulation, by Strassner when he was in 7th or 8th grade. Strassner retired in 2003. He died 11/20/2009.
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