Rev. Eugene E. Blazek or Blasek

Summary of Case: Blazek was named in a 2008 lawsuit as having sexually abused a boy in Hawaii for over a year, sometime between 1979-1982. The suit alludes to other "youngsters" having been molested by Blazek. Blazek spent more than twenty years as a military chaplain after 1985, retiring to Houston TX in 2007.

Ordained: 1976

     

Start Stop Assignment Town/Accusations State Position Notes

1976

Honolulu bishop was John Joseph Scanlan (1968-1981)

1977 St. Anthony's Kailua HI 3/4 St. Anthony's had a school with 750 students.
1977 1979 Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace Honolulu HI 4/7 The cathedral had a school with 259 students.

1979

Scanlan was replaced by Joseph Anthony Ferrario (1982-1993)

1983 Our Lady of the Mount

Honolulu

• Accused in a 2008 lawsuit of having sexually assaulted a boy repeatedly for more than a year, sometime between 1979-1982. The suit refers to other "youngsters" having been assaulted by Blazek. (Honolulu Advertiser
March 11, 2008)

HI 2/2  
1983 1986 Our Lady of Lourdes Honokaa HI 1/1  
1983 1986 St. Theresa's Kukuihaele HI   This was a mission of Our Lady of Lourds in Honokaa.
1983 1986 St. Joseph's Paauilo HI    
1986 2001 U.S. Air Force     Chaplain  
2001 2008 On Duty Outside the Diocese       Retired from the military in 2007 and was said in 2008 to be living in Houston, TX. (Hawaii Catholic Herald
April 4, 2008) He had not lived in Hawaii for more than twenty years, and is known to have lived for a time in North Carolina, prior to his retirement from the military.


Source: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1977-2008).

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This assignment record was last updated on Sept. 9, 2009