Fr. Freddy Washington
Assigned in the Archdioceses of Cincinnati, Chicago, and New York. Prior to ordination, worked as a deacon in Tanzania. Pastor of St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in Harlem in the NY archdiocese when arrested in 6/2017 for sexual abuse in 1982-1984 of two boys, ages 10 and 11-14, at St. Patrick’s church in Charleston. Washington was a lay person and volunteer in his early 20s at the time of the alleged abuse. The boys were in training to be altar servers. The abuse was said to have included fondling and oral copulation. The Charleston diocese learned of the allegations in 2/2016 and contacted the Rockville Centre diocese. The Charleston diocese contacted Charleston police in 9/2016. The criminal case was dismissed in 2018. Listed on Xavier University in New Orleans’ website in 6/2017 as associate professor of pastoral theology. Included in 10/2022 on the Chicago Archdiocese’s list of credibly accused; had been pastor of two Chicago parishes. Included in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General’s Report. Washington’s order, the Spiritans, contended in 2025 that the allegations were unsubstantiated. However, the order said that Washington was under constant monitoring and did not have unsupervised accessed to minors. He was living at a Spiritans retirement home in Bethel Park, PA.
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