2 Accused in This Religious Order
Sister Genevieve Marie
A man and a woman, both 60, alleged in an 8/07 civil suit that Sister Genevieve Marie, a nun and teacher at St. James School in McMinnville, engaged in acts of physical and mental cruelty toward them in the mid- to late 1950s.
Sr. Francis Marie Yocum
Given name Florence. Named publicly as accused in the 4/5/2023 MD Attorney General's Report. Taught voice lessons, directed the glee club and a cappella choir at Catholic High School in Baltimore in the 1950s. Died in 1994. Allegation received by the Archdiocese in 2/2012 that Yocum sexually abused a girl, age 16 or 17, in 1954. Yocum's accuser said the abuse occurred during weekly private voice lessons. Included in 12/2024 on the Archdiocese's list of accused.