Are you a straight male seeking to hire a Catholic priest abuse lawyer but are scared and embarrassed to tell law enforcement you had your manhood stolen by a priest obsessed with man-boy-love? Or perhaps you were a young woman who was lulled into a false sense of security and sexually abused by your diocese. Due to their status as authority figures, Catholic Priests and public school teaching positions have become favorite places for pedophiles to seek employment, especially in California. The Catholic Church child sex abuse scandal is a massive indictment in the United States and has gained considerable notoriety worldwide. Yet, the staggering number of priests credibly accused of child sexual abuse remains largely unrecognized by many.
In the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, an alarming number of over one hundred accused Catholic priests and clergy have been implicated in cases of child sexual abuse. Each one of these alleged abusers held faculties to minister within the Archdiocese. Although it’s not just priests accused of sexual misconduct, we will focus on the most high-profile clergy members accused of child sexual abuse claims.
“Child sex abuse incidents cause life-long trauma for the survivors. The courage of survivors to speak out against the accused priests has inspired others who were sexually abused to do the same and has contributed to making society safer. Did you suffer child sexual abuse at the hands of a Catholic priest? We are ready to file your civil suit today.” – Michael Ehline, Esq.
What is Pedophilia?
“Pedophilia is defined as an ongoing sexual attraction toward pre-pubertal children.” (Freund, 1963, 1967; Seto, 2009).
Why Many Pedos Seek Teaching and Priest Jobs?
- The Power Dynamic: Teaching and priest positions offer an unequal power dynamic that such individuals may exploit.
- Access to Vulnerable Targets: Schools and curches continuously stream potentially vulnerable students.
- Trust: Teachers and clergy are trusted figures who can provide the necessary cover for illicit activities.
Many parents in CA are complaining that the rainbow flag is being used as a weapon to groom children in public schools sexually. If you disagree with the school, you are branded as a “domestic terrorist” by Merrick Garland’s FBI and a “bigot” by the leftist teacher’s unions you are funding every time you send your kids to school.
Gavin Newsom recently signed a law making it easier for convicted male pedophiles to stay off Meghans List, giving judges Newsom appointed the discretion to keep their names off. He also lowered the legal age for a male adult to engage in anal sex with a minor child.
And it’s not just closeted, secret pedos getting jobs at public schools. This law has made it far easier for KNOWN, convicted pedophiles to get education and daycare center jobs, according to the thousands of parents fleeing California since the past elections. Even before this law, we saw as far back as 2010 that: “Registered sex offenders are getting jobs in schools as teachers, administrators, volunteers, and contractors, despite state laws that …” (Source.)
Repeated Failures to Stop Abusive Priests
The repeated failure of the Church’s oversight to control child sexual abuse has thrown the lives of countless survivors and their families into disarray and turmoil. Many victims, out of fear, guilt, or shame, continue to suffer alone, while the abusive clergy and those who allowed sexual misconduct to persist remain unaccountable. The Catholic Church appears to be pushing for same-sex marriages, acceptance of emotionally gender dysphoric men who think they are women, and sex with young boys more and more. In other words, they are starting to support things their Bible condemns. But why?
Many commentators think the policy changes are designed to lower the age of consent and eliminate this steady flow of lawsuits emptying the coffers of the Los Angeles Diocese in particular (The Long Beach and Santa Monica Dioceses appear to have received multiple allegations of priest abuse over the years. Was your priest accused of abuse too?)
What Family Rights Groups Say?
Many conservatives opine that the left is pushing hard to lower the age of consent so the billionaires and Hollywood celebrities who raped kids at Epstein Island won’t be prosecuted. The Catholic Church and its Los Angeles Diocese have decided many times that rather than fire the clergy accused of raping abuse victims, moving Los Angeles accused priests to a different Roman Catholic Church is the extent of the punishment for allegations and even convictions of sexual abuse of minors.
How Can Ehline Law Help Stop Catholic Church Sexual Abuse?
For over 15 years, Ehline Law Firm Personal Injury Attorneys, APLC, has been at the forefront of persistent priest abuse advocacy in California, representing survivors of Catholic Church sexual abuse. We are devoted to holding the Church and the abusers accountable, using our expertise and tenacity to shine a light not only on the perpetrators but also their clergy member enablers, who continued to expose innocent children to these abusers and a steady stream of alleged abuse allegations.
By Creating Updated Child Sexual Abuse Databases
To continue our efforts towards transparency and to provide resources for survivors who may still be suffering in silence, we have been diligently updating and publishing the Los Angeles Archdiocese list of accused priests to the public. Our updated list for 2023, compiled from various sources through painstaking research, includes 352 clergy members who have been credibly accused of child sexual abuse. Many Catholic priests have been proven guilty of past abuse. This has led to a call for legislative reform to protect children from these monstrous defendants accused of abuse.
Predator priests accused of abuse are just the tip of the iceberg. In California, Senators like Scott Weiner have been pushing full steam ahead to normalize sex between men and minor boys. So, it appears the goals of the atheist politicians and many abusive priests may be the same in California. Those goals seem to be placing people in positions of power so they won’t be investigated or convicted of accusations by raped children and their parents. And it’s far easier to cover up when everyone you work with is also a child predator or in fear of being called a “bigot” if they report the crime.
List of Priests Accused in Los Angeles of Child Molestation – Updated
Below is the updated list of 2023 priests accused of abuse in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Although this database only included publicly accused Roman Catholic priests, we are updating another list to include accused nuns, brothers, deacons, and seminarians in other counties and states. This is what we have discovered so far from a regularly maintained database created by ProPublica after kids were abused by a priest.
The updated database comprises the following names of priests credibly accused of child sexual abusers in Los Angeles alone.
- Abaya, Ruben L.
- Abercrombie, Leonard
- Aguilar-Rivera, Nicolas
- Ahumada, Arturo Federico
- Albalaa, Pierre
- Alonso, Jose
- Altamirano Torres, Sebastian
- Alzugaray, Joseph
- Anderson, David E.
- Anderson, Roger
- Arias, Andres
- Atherton, Gregory
- Arzube, Juan
- Babilonia, Delfin
- Baker, Michael
- Balak, Fredrick
- Balbin, Victor
- Barco, Roberto
- Barmasse, Kevin P.
- Bautista, Gaspar
- Berbena, Christopher
- Berumen, Matthias A.
- Bismonte, Honesto
- Boley, Robert
- Bond, Robert
- Bouska, Jerome
- Boyer, Leland
- Brennan, John Lawrence
- Brown, Lawrence
- Buckley, Michael D.
- Buckman, Franklin
- Cabaong, Honorato
- Cabot, Samuel
- Caffoe, Lynn
- Cairns, James
- Campbell, Stuart B.
- Cano, Juan
- Carey, Cleve W.
- Carriere, David
- Carroll, Michael
- Carvajal Hernandez, Raul
- Casey, Edward
- Casey, John Joseph
- Casey, Michael Joseph
- Castellanos-Morfin, Gildardo
- Cavalli, Vincent
- Cavanagh, Brian
- Castro, Willebaldo
- Chandler, David
- Chong, Damien
- Cimmarrusti, Mario Walter
- Coffield, John
- Colosimo, Eugene
- Connolly, Bernard
- Cook, Ozias Bailey
- Corcoles, Candido
- Corral, Andres S.
- Cosgrove, John
- Cotter, Patrick John
- Coughlin, Richard T.
- Cousineau, David
- Cremins, Daniel J.
- Cronin, Sean
- Cruces, Angel
- Cuevas, Jose Luis
- Cunningham, Chrisopher
- Daley, Wallace
- Dawson, John H.
- De Otero, Roberto
- Deady, John P.
- Deehr, Anselm
- DeJonghe, Harold
- DeLisle, Harold F.
- Devaney, James
- Di Peri, Joseph B.
- Diamond, William L.
- Diesta, Arwyn
- Doan, Michael Son Trong
- Doherty, John B.
- Doherty, Roger
- Dolan, James
- Dominguez, Jesus Jesse
- Dove, Thomas
- Dowd, Francis
- DuFour, Donald J.
- Duggan, Albert J.
- Dunne, Joseph
- Duplessis, Donald
- Elanjimannil, Sebastian
- Encinas, Andrew Gabriel
- English, Thomas Patrick
- Epperson, Mark
- Eslava, Joseph
- Falvey, Mark
- Farabaugh, Clint
- Farmer, Donald G.
- Farrell, Terrence
- Farris, John V.
- Fatooh, Charles
- Faue, Matthias
- Feeney, John J.C.
- Feeney, John Patrick
- Fernando, Arthur N.
- Fernando, Walter
- Fessard, Gerald B.
- Finn, William
- Fitzpatrick, James J.
- Fitzpatrick, Thomas Q.
- Flannery, Patrick
- Flynn, Vincent Stephen
- Foley, George
- Ford, James
- Gaioni, Dominic
- Gallagher, George Michael
- Gameros, Miguel
- Garay, Jesus Atilio
- Garcia, Cristobal
- Garcia, Peter
- Garcia, Ramon
- Garcia, Richard Francis
- Garcia, Sergio
- Ginty, Denis
- Granadino, David F.
- Grasha, Donald Francis
- Grill, Philip
- Grimes, James
- Gunst, George
- Guzman, Vicente
- Hackett, John Joseph
- Hagenbach, Clinton V.
- Hanley, Bernard Brian
- Haran, Michael Joseph
- Hardy, Paschal
- Harman, Charles
- Harris, Michael A.
- Hartman, Richard
- Havel, Thomas E.
- Hawkes, Benjamin
- Henry, Richard
- Hernandez, Alfred
- Hernandez, Stephen
- Higson, John
- Hill, Patrick Joseph
- Hollenbach, Frank A.
- Hollinger, William
- Horvath, Bertrand
- Hunt, Michael A.
- Hurley, Daniel
- Hurley, John J.
- Hurley, Richard
- Ilagan, Jose Medrano
- Jablonowski, Anthony
- James, Joseph
- James, Melvin
- Jaramillo, Luis
- Jayawardene, Tilak A.
- Jimenez-Pelayo, Emmanuel
- Johnson, Dave
- Juarez, Anthony
- Juarez, Robert Jesus
- Kain, Steven (Stephen)
- Kareta, Gregory J.
- Kavanaugh, Phillip M.
- Kearney, Christopher W.
- Keeney, John
- Kelly, Matthew H.
- Kelly, Patrick
- Kenny, John A.
- Killeen, John
- King, Thomas F.
- Klikunas, Bruce J.
- Knoernschild, John
- Koerner, Robert
- Kohlbeck, Frank
- Kohnke, John
- Krumm, Gus
- Lacar, Sylvio
- Lalor, Michael
- Lane, Timothy, C.J.
- LaPierre, David
- Lawless, Fergus
- Leon, Modesto
- Lindner, Jerold William
- Llanos, Theodore
- Loofborough, Charles
- Loomis, Richard A.
- Lopez, Fernando L.
- Lopez, Joseph
- Lorenzoni, Larry
- Lovell, Lawrence (Larry)
- Lyons, Denis
- MacSweeney, Eugene
- Maio, Eugene
- Manning, Robert
- Marshall, Thomas
- Martin, James Aloysius
- Martinez, Ernest
- Martinez, Ruben
- Mateo, Leonard
- Mateos, Francisco
- Mayer, Charles Patrick
- McAsey, Joseph
- McCabe, Vincent
- McCarthy, Kevin
- McClean, William A.
- McElhatton, Thomas H.
- McGloin, James
- McGrath, Philip Joseph
- McHugh, Patrick Joseph
- McKeon, Martin
- McNamara, Patrick
- Mejia, Gonzalez Jose
- Mendez, Jose
- Meyer, Louis L.
- Messenger, William P.
- Miani, Titian Jim
- Miller, George M.
- Mitchell, John D.
- Mohan, Thomas J.
- Molthen, Vincent
- Monte, Alfred
- Morales, Raymond D.
- Moody, Michael Andre
- Moreno, Kolbe
- Murguia, Ralph
- Murphy, Francis J.
- Murphy, Joseph L.
- Murray, Daniel J.
- Newell, Jeffrey David
- Nocita, Michael
- Nwankwo, Cyril Ndubuizu
- O’Brien, Kenneth
- O’Byrne, John
- O’Carroll, Charles
- Ochoa, Javier
- O’Connor, Donal
- O’Dwyer, Patrick
- O’Leary, Mark G.
- O’Loghlen, Martin P.
- Orellana, Samuel
- O’Rourke, Thomas
- Paone Ernest
- Pacheco, Albert Gary
- Pecharich, Michael
- Peck, Daniel P.
- Peguero, Roberto H.
- Pena, Amado
- Pereira, Anthony
- Perez, Henry
- Perez Carillo, Antonio
- Perez, Francisco Javier
- Person, James
- Pick, Louis V.
- Pina, Joseph D.
- Pleimann, Bernard
- Plesetz, Gerald
- Poon, Stanislaus
- Porter, Thomas A.
- Power, Vincent
- Purcell, Patrick
- Puthenkandam, Joseph J.
- Quinlan, Celestine
- Ramos, Eleutario
- Regan, Joseph
- Reilly, Terrence
- Reina, Nicholas J.
- Riebe, Loren
- Robinson, James
- Rodie, Ernest
- Rodriguez, Carlos Rene
- Rodriguez Macal, Saul
- Roemer, Donald Patrick
- Roper, William
- Rosas Flores, Fidel
- Rowe, Dorian
- Rozo Rincon, Efrain
- Rucker, George Neville
- Ruhl, John E.
- Ryan, Joseph Francis
- Ryan, Thomas
- Salazar, Alexander
- Salazar, Armando
- Salazar, John Anthony
- Salinas, Gabriel
- Sanchez, Jose
- Sanchez, Jose L.
- Sanchez, Juan
- Sanchez, Manuel
- Sandstrom, Lawrence
- Santillan, John
- Satterthwaite, Richard W.
- Savarianandam, Arulappan
- Savino, Dominic
- Schaller, Emmett Gilroy
- Scheier, Maurice
- Schimmaly, Edward
- Scott, George
- Selmo, Louis
- Sharkey, Joe
- Sharpe, Joseph Francis
- Sheahan, John A.
- Shelton, Charles
- Shepherd, John R.
- Silva, Fidencio Fores
- Sintef, Michael Charles
- Spader, Robert William
- Speciale, Stephen Emmet
- Sprouffske, Matthew
- Stack, Jerome
- Stadtfeld, Joseph
- Stallkamp, Louis G.
- Stiechen, Raymond
- Su, Stanislaus S.
- Sullivan, Thomas
- Sutphin, Carl M.
- Sweeney, Francis M.
- Tacderas, Joseph
- Tamayo, Santiago L.
- Teluma, Lukas Bao
- Tepe, Raymond (Jose)
- Terra, Michael
- Thorne, Vance
- Tresler, Carl Duane
- Tubbs, Leo
- Tugade, Valentine Q.
- Turba, Jerome
- Ugarte, Jose I.
- Van Handel, Robert
- Van Liefde, Christian
- Van Ter Toolen, Vincent
- Verhart, John
- Vetter, Henry Xavier
- Villa Gomez, Gilmero Nemoria
- Villaroya, Ernesto Corral
- Villoria, Luis
- Vita, William
- Vorisek, Rudolph
- Wadeson, John Howard
- Walsh, James Joseph
- Warren, A. Thomas
- Weber, Francis J.
- Weitz, Wilfrid
- Wempe, Michael E.
- Wert, William
- Wertz, Gerald
- Wishard, John W.
- Wolfe, Phillip
- Wood, William J.
- Ziemann, G. Patrick
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If you are a victim survivor and see your abuser is on this list, or even if they are not, please understand that there are resources available for help. Dealing with the trauma of abuse can be an overwhelming task, but you don’t have to face it alone. Those responsible must be held accountable. We don’t want victim survivors just to settle claims; we want to punish the Los Angeles Archdiocese for allowing so many victims to be molested by its gay priests. Catholic clergy are supposed to be abstinent to begin with. Either way, if you don’t act now, you could blow the statute of limitations and give up your right to pursue monetary compensation from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
It’s Not Just Boys Suffering Catholic Priest Child Sex Abuse
Although it is primarily little, pre-pubescent “golden boys” being targeted by abusive male public school teachers and Catholic priests, sometimes girls are raped too. A priest from Argentina, who served as an extern, has been newly added to the list following accusations made in 2016. The allegations pertain to sexual misconduct against a teenage girl while he was serving in the Diocese of San Bernardino a few years ago. The Los Angeles Archdiocese clarified that it discontinued appending names to its ‘People of God’ report post-2008. This is due to parishes and schools proactively publicizing instances of abuse as they unraveled.
Out of 27 parishes in the Archdiocese that have significant Black populations, at least 19 — 70% — previously had priests on staff who have been accused of sexual abuse. As you can see, victims come in all shapes, sizes, and races. Despite new laws, male child groomers, in particular, actively seek employment as priests and public school teachers. When a priest or teacher is reportedly removed, many Dioceses pass on their problem to other families. This is unfair to past victims and will create more rape allegations in the ministry.
We hope this updated list of male priests accused of raping little boys (and, less often, girls) helped shed some light on the new wave of pedophilia sweeping California since the last presidential election. We learned that pedos seek positions of authority, especially as school teachers and priests. Priests accused of abuse, and sexual misconduct in particular, pale in comparison to the reports of male public school teachers abusing kids. We are constantly hearing stories of freshly credentialed male teachers trying to secretly “transition” children away from their parents. We will discuss this latest administrative state trend in another article.
Abused by a Catholic Priest? Call for a Free Consultation with a Los Angeles Catholic Priest Abuse Lawyer
Ready to come forward and sue? Childhood sexual abuse ruins lives, and if you don’t come forward with your lawsuit, other kids will be ruined, too. In other words, the list of accused priests in Los Angeles, CA, will continue enlarging. At Ehline Law, our skilled team of attorneys is committed to championing the rights of survivors of priest and Catholic Diocese clergy abuse. We understand the pain, confusion, anger, and sense of betrayal you may be experiencing, and our mission is to help you navigate through this difficult time. If you think you have a potential case against an abusive diocese, even if it happened long ago, you may have a California claim.
We can help in Orange County, San Jose, Santa Barbara, and even the Lone Star State of Texas. It’s time for justice to be served and you to reclaim your life. Stay tuned for more released lists of Roman Catholic Church child abusers and clergy members accused of rape, as well as any legal action taken, including criminal charges. Till then, we will keep fighting to make sure your rights are protected until your priest is proven guilty of his crime in criminal court.
And our compassionate advocates will bring a civil suit to get you compensation for your years of secret child sexual abuse. If you or a loved one are a victim-survivor who suffered abuse, please get in touch with our legal team at 833-LET-SUE for a free, confidential consultation. You can also email us 24/7 using our online Contact Us form. We are ready to protect your legal rights today and start the accusation investigation, all on a contingency fee basis.
- Catholic male priests targeting young boys
- LA Archdiocese reveals list of 54 clergy accused of abusing children
- The Catholic Church’s failure to control sexual abuse has thrown the lives of survivors and their families into turmoil
- Childhood sexual abuse incidents cause life-long trauma for survivors
- The courage of survivors who have come forward has inspired others to do the same
- Over one hundred priests and clergy in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles have been accused of child sexual abuse.
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