11 Accused in This Religious Order
- Piasecki Testimony on Meeting 08.28.96
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 12.05.06
- Chicago Tribune 12.06.06
- Chicago Sun-Times 12.06.06
- Pioneer Press (AP) 12.06.06
- TheMilwaukeeChannel 01.08.07
- TMJ4 01.09.07
- Fox28 01.09.07
- TheMilwaukeeChannel 01.10.07
- TheMilwaukeeChannel 06.15.07
- WISN 09.14.07
- WISN 11.12.07
- Chicago Tribune 11.12.07
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 11.13.07
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 02.01.08
- Chicago Tribune 02.02.08
- Chicago Sun-Times 02.14.08
- WISN 04.23.09
- Tributes accessed 05.03.11
Mary Juanita Barto
Religious Sister of Mercy (RSM). Joined the order in 1952. Professed her final vows in 1957. Accused publicly by a woman in the 2000s of sexually abusing her throughout high school, beginning when the woman was age 15 in the late 1960s. Per Barto's accuser, the abuse occurred in classrooms at Mater Christi High School in Queens, on school buses to sporting events, at retreats in upstate NY, at the girl's home in Woodside and at a Long Island Convent. Barto died 5/2/14. Lawsuit filed 2/18/20; settled in 2020.
Sr. Norma Giannini
Removed from ministry by order in 1992 after archdiocese reported complaints. No report to police. Sent for treatment and assigned to office work. Retired. Publicly accused in 2006 of abusing two male students multiple times in the 1960s at St. Patrick's Elementary School in Milwaukee. Transferred in the 1970s to an all-girls school in the Chicago area. Indicted on two felony counts in 12/06. Admitted to other victims. Sentenced in 2/08 to 1 year in jail, 9 years probation. Released in 4/09. Civil suit filed in 5/09. Died 4/18/11 in Omaha.
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Mercedes Graber
Accused in a 6/20 lawsuit of the sexual abuse of a minor from about 1978 to 1981 at Mercy High School in Albany. Joined the Sisters of Mercy in 1944. Died in 1997.
Sr. Mary Nazareen
Accused in a lawsuit filed in 1/2020 of sexually abusing a girl in the 1960s at Holy Cross School in Rumson when the girl was kindergarten to 7th grade. The school employed the Sisters of Mercy.
Sister Bernadette Marie
Accused in a 6/20 lawsuit of the sexual abuse of a minor from about 1966 to 1967 at St. Teresa of Avila in Albany.
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Sister Bernadine
Accused in a lawsuit filed in 8/19 under the NY Child Victims Act of sexually abusing a teenager while a teacher at Notre Dame High School in Elmira.
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Sister De Neri
Named publicly as accused by the Rockeville Centre diocese on its list in 3/21. Allegedly abused at St. Joseph's in Babylon. Time-frame not shown.
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Sister Mary Claudine
Name included in Diocese's 9/02 $13.5M mass settlement in 36 sexual abuse lawsuits alleging abuse by 11 priests and a nun.
Sr. Helen McKeough
Accused in a lawsuit filed in 8/2023 of abusing a girl, age 7, at St. Ann's Indian Island School in Old Town in about 1977. Keogh was the superior of St. Ann's Convent and school principal at the time in question.
Sr. Mary Geraldine Walsh
Accused in a lawsuit filed in 12/21 of sexually abusing a second-grade boy at St. John's School in Bangor 1957-58, where Walsh was school principal and an 8th-grade teacher. Walsh's accuser said that she sexually abused him in the coatroom several times, after telling him that he had wet his pants and needed to take them off. The man also said he and his classmates were regularly spanked by teachers on their exposed buttocks in front of the class. Walsh died in 1973, age 86.
Barbara Wood
Accused in a 6/20 lawsuit of sexually abusing a minor from about 1974 to 1978 at St. Patrick in Watervliet.