Milwaukee

• His two younger brothers say that, as a teenager, Kos molested them and younger boys in the neigborhood. Two of his brothers testified in 1997 that Kos spent a year in a juvenile detention center for abusing a neighbor. (San Diego News Notes
September 1997)

Methodist Medical Center

1977

Dallas bishop was Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe (1969-1990)

Holy Trinity Seminary

Irving

• A complaint was filed by 1981 with the diocese that Kos was sexually agressive with other seminarians. (Freethought Today
[A Publication of the Freedom from Religion Foundation]
September 1997)

Sacred Heart

Holy Spirit

In residence and helping out on weekends, while in the CPE program at Methodist Hospital during the week.

All Saints

Dallas

• Is said to have sexually abused as many as 50 boys in this and the parishes to which he was subsequently assigned. (Freethought Today
[A Publication of the Freedom from Religion Foundation]
September 1997).

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Pastor was Msgr. Raphael Kamel. Second priest 1981-1982 was Robert Peebles, followed 1982-1985 by Rev. Gregory Kelly.

Peebles admitted to being a pedophile, and that he had sexually abused 16 boys. He was arrested in 1984 for sexual assault of a 14 year old boy while an Army Chaplain at Ft. Benning GA. Laicized in 1989. Last known to be working as a government lawyer in New Orleans. (Dallas Morning News
October 27, 2002)

St. Luke's

Irving

• Fr. Clayton concerned about Kos' behavior with boys, and called vicar general Msgr. Rehkemper to discuss in Jan. 1986. Fr. Clayton documented that Kos had boys stay overnight with him four out of five nights per week 2/26-86-5/12/86. He sent the information to Rehkemper. Clayton also wrote of his concerns to Bishop Tschoepe (San Diego News Notes
September 1997)

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Pastor was Rev. Daniel J. Clayton. In residence was Rev. Joseph Haley.

St. Luke's had a school with 356-335 students.

1988

Charles Victor Grahmann replaced Tschoepe as bishop (1990-2007)

St. John Nepomucene

Ennis

• Fr. Williams testified in 1997 trial that he was "alarmed from the day Kos arrived....about the amount of time he spent with boys", and that he saw Kos in his bed with a boy in the room. (Documents of Windle Turley www.wturley.com)

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Working under Kos were Rev. Ernesto Torres (Phillipines) 1988-1989 and 1990-1991, Deacons Don L. Griffith and Ralph R. Gordon 1988-1990, Rev. Robert Williams 1991-1993, and Rev. Jose Parada as third priest 1992-1993.

St. John's had a grade school with 283-330 students, a high school with 155-225 students, and a C.C.D. program with 401-435 students.

Not in indexed in the Directories after 1993.

Corpus Christi

Ferris

• Removed from ministry in Oct. 1992 due to allegations that he abused two boys from 1985-1992. (Dallas Morning News July 17, 1993) In April of 1992 a therapist had told diocesan officials that Kos showed signs that he was a "classic textbook pedophile." It was 6 months before he was removed and sent to the Servants of the Paraclete treatment center in New Mexico. (Dallas Morning News
December 7, 1993) Parishioners were told only that Kos voluntarily resigned to seek treatment for stress. (San Diego News Notes
September 1997)

In 1992 a 21 year old man committed suicide after years of sexual abuse by Kos. (Dallas Morning News
April 2, 1998)

Corpus Christi was a mission of St. John Nepomucene.

Not in indexed in the Directories after 1993.

Kos moved to San Diego, where he worked as a free lance paralegal.

Servants of the Paraclete

Jemez Springs

• A young man testified in the 1997 trial that Kos called him several times from the treatment center. (San Diego News Notes
September 1997)

San Diego

• In July 1997 an eleven week civil trial against the Dallas diocese concluded in favor of eleven plaintiffs who had been sexually abused by Kos between 1981-1992, when they were children. The diocese was found to have committed fraud and conspiracy in covering up the sexual abuse. Jurors also found that the diocese's gross negligance and Kos' abuse were "proximate cause" of the 1992 suicide of one victim. Jurors read a statement admonishing the diocese, and received a thirty second standing ovation. (Freethought Today September 1997)

Dallas

• Arrested and extradited to Texas. Convicted of sexual abuse of four boys he had met at three Dallas parishes 1987-1992 (Dallas Morning News April 1, 1998) Sentenced to life in prison. (Dallas Morning News April 2, 1998)