SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 2002
Country AbuserDetails
ArgentinaVirginio Isottón 2Isottón molested girls who were preparing to receive their First Holy Communion at Nuestra Senora de Fatima church.After this case was reported, he was transferred to theDiocese of Gregory de Laferrere. He became the parish priest at Nuestra Senora de la Esperanza church.ArgentinaFather Hector ParedSeveral males accused Pared of raping them while he servedas the head of a home for adolescents. Following theallegations, Pared stepped down. He later was suspended bythe Bishop of Quilmes and was arrested on January 11, 2001.ArgentinaArchbishopEdgardo Storni 3Archbishop Storni resigned in September 2002 because of accusations of sex abuse. Storni had been investigated in the1990s after several allegations of sexual abuse. Thecontroversy erupted again in August 2002 after a book accused him of sexually assaulting seminarians in hisdiocese. Archbishop Storni maintains he is innocent.AustraliaGerald Ridsdale
4Ridsale was sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleadingguilty to 46 charges of sexual abuse involving 21 children.One of Ridsdale's victims claims he informed ArchbishopPell of the abuse in 1993, and Pell offered him money toremain silent.AustraliaRex Elmer
5Elmer, a Christian Brother, was charged in September 1997with assaulting 14 boys whose ages ranged from seven to 11years old at a Catholic boys' home between 1971 and 1977.AustraliaFr. RonaldMcKeirnan
6McKeirnan was sentenced in October 1998 to a three-year prison term for molesting nine boys between 1964-5 andagain between 1975-7. A judge, however, suspended thesentence after 12 months.AustriaCardinal HansHermann Groer of Vienna
7The cardinal was accused of sexually abusing boys at aseminary in the 1970s.BelgiumRev. AndreVanderlyn
8Vanderlyn was convicted of molesting three boys over a period of several decades. In April of 1998, a Belgian courtruled that Cardinal Godfried Danneels and a local bishop
were responsible for the abuse because they were thesupervisors of the priest. The cardinal and bishop wereordered to pay damages totaling $14,000 to one of thevictims.BosniaRev. Jozo ZovkoThere are vague allegations that Zovko sexually molestedwomen making pilgrimages to Medjugorje. 9BrazilRev. Nilo Cezar Martins
10Martins is accused of raping a 12-year-old altar boy duringan assignment in Philadelphia, PA, in 1985. He was arrested,admitted the abuse, and was imprisoned. However, after sixweeks he was deported to his home in Brazil. His lawyer andthe Philadelphia archdiocese said they lost track of Martins,who returned to active ministry in the diocese of NovaIguacu.BrazilFr. SalomaoSoares de Oliveira11According to police reports, he is charged with financiallysupporting four girls, two of whom are minors, in exchangefor sexual favors.BrazilRev. Alexander Nicolaus Werber 12He was arrested after being caught sexually abusing a six-year-old boy in a hotel room. He was also found to be in possession of photographs of two girls, ages six and eight,one with her underwear showing. He formerly directed aschool for needy children in Joao Pessoa.BrazilFr. Sebastiao LuizTomaz
13 Nineteen girls between the ages of 10 and 16 reported sometype of sexual contact with the priest in exchange for clothesand money. Later the same year, Bishop Aldo Pagotto wasdenounced by the Public Ministry of Ceara for attempting tocoerce this priest's victims to change their testimony. By July2002 21 victims had come forward, and nine claims had been proven with medical evidence.
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BrazilFr. Valdeijanio deSouza Melo 15A 15-year-old girl gave birth to a child fathered by this priestwho raped her. The priest acknowledged the child as his.BrazilMsgr. Jose AlvesGuedes
16Denounced for molestation of a seminarian in theconfessional during Carnaval in 1991 in Rio de Janeiro. Hemaintains a position as an ecclesiastical leader in Niteroi.BrazilFr. Jose AriDegrandis
17He was sentenced to 24 years in prison for the rape of twowomen, one of whom was 16 years old when she was raped
twice by the priest.BrazilFr. BonifacioBuzzi
18He was accused of sexually molesting an 11-year-old child.Previously sentenced to 13 years of prison for sexual abuseof two minors.BrazilFr. AlfieriEducardo Bonpani19He was arrested for attempted violation by pressure of 5children, ages 9 to 17.BrazilFr. HelibertoSantos
20He admitted to sexual relations with a 16 year-old-girl, who became pregnant as a result.BrazilFr. EdsonFrancisco dosSantos
21He was accused of sexual relations with a minor who at thetime of this report was 18 years old and 7 months pregnant.BrazilFr. Juvenil Paulode Araújo
22He was accused by six minors of sexual abuse; under investigation by the civil authorities.BrazilFr. Sergio MayaBarbosa
23Barbosa is charged with corruption of minors after military police discovered him with a 14-year-old after allegedly performing oral sex on the minor. Barbosa first apologizedfor his actions; later, at the police station, he recanted.BrazilArchbishopHerminio Hungo24A former nun claims that she had a 27-year affair withArchbishop Hungo, which lasted until his death. She alsoclaims to have adopted four children with him. Further, shereports having sex with five bishops and 32 priests, beingraped in a convent library by an unnamed bishop in the early1970s, being abused by several clergymen, and being forcedout of the church.CanadaFather MatthewBerko
25Berko was accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girlin 1985. Criminal charges were brought and Berko pledguilty the following year. He received a one-year suspendedsentence and was reinstated to the same parish the next year.The family of the victim sued and was awarded $184,000(CAD) dollars but never received any payment.CanadaRev. BarryGlendinning
26In 1974, Glendinning pleaded guilty to six counts of grossindecency for the sexual abuse of four brothers, another boyand one girl between 1968 and 1974. He received three yearsof probation and spent time in a treatment center. Later heworked in a rural parish in Alberta and admitted to "sexual
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