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	SNAP Fact Sheet: Recent Italian Predator Priests Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests June 9, 2010 http://www.snapnetwork.org/snap_press_releases/2010_press_releases/060910_snap_fact_sheet_recent_italian_predator_priests.htm PRIEST: Fr. Vijay Vhaskr Godugunuru * WHERE HE'S FROM: India (Cuddapah diocese) * LAST KNOWN LOCATION: Working 3 months ago at a Catholic parish in Sarteano in Tuscany (Italy) * CHARGED WITH: Sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl * DISPOSITION OF CHARGES: He pleaded 'no contest' in Feb. 2007 * CRIMES HAPPENED: In Bonifay, Florida (USA) * CURRENT WHEREABOUTS: Unknown, but possibly still in Sarteano in Tuscany (Italy) * MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENT: In April, church officials claimed he left his church job * HIS COLLEAGUES/SUPERVISORS INCLUDE: Rev. Fabrizio Ilari * LINKS: http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articles/godugunuru-28130-priest-town.html http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articles/godugunuru-28130-priest-town.html PRIEST: Fr. Mario Pezzotti * WHERE HE'S FROM: A city near Brescia in Italy * LAST KNOWN LOCATION: At a church facility in Via San Martino, 8 Parma, Italy (as of April 2010) * IS CHARGED WITH: Sexual assault, sodomy and rape of a child in three civil lawsuits in the US * DISPOSITION OF CHARGES: Settled in 1993. In a handwritten letter, he apologized to one of his victims. * CRIMES ALLEGEDLY HAPPENED: Holliston, Massachusetts (USA), in the Boston Archdiocese * CURRENT WHEREABOUTS: At the Xaverian Missionary 'motherhouse,' Via San Martino, 8 Parma, Italy * MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENT: In April, the Associated Press ran recent photos of him with nearly-naked kids in the Amazonian missions. He was quickly transferred back to Italy. * HIS COLLEAGUES/SUPERVISORS INCLUDE: Rev. Rino Benzoni, the superior general of the order, Father Emilio Baldin, rector of the motherhouse in Parma * LINKS: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/36523444/ns/world_news-world_faith/ http://parma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2010/04/15/news/saveriano_condannato_per_pedofilia_dopo_gli_abusi_in_usa_isolato_a_parma-3372873/ PRIEST: Fr. Fernando Lopez * LAST KNOWN LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA * IS CHARGED WITH: Four counts of felony lewd acts with a child, one felony count of sexual battery by restraint, two misdemeanor counts of child molestation and one misdemeanor count of sexual battery. * DISPOSITION OF CHARGES: Convicted and sentenced in 2005 for six years in a state prison. * CRIMES HAPPENED: Los Angeles, CA (USA) * CURRENT WHEREABOUTS: Unknown, but was deported back home to Colombia. * MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENT: A suit, filed last year, also accuses Catholic officials, including LA's Cardinal Roger Mahony, of "destroying and manipulating evidence" of the molestations. Lopez was a visiting priest from the Tivoli (Rome) Diocese. * HIS COLLEAGUES/SUPERVISORS INCLUDE: Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, Tivoli Bishop Mauro Parmeggiani * LINKS: http://articles.latimes.com/2005/mar/17/local/me-priest17 http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2009/05_06/2009_05_07_Helfand_LawsuitAccuses.htm PRIEST: Fr. Joseph John Henn * LAST KNOWN LOCATION: Rome, Italy * IS CHARGED WITH: Molesting kids in Arizona (USA) in the 1970s and 1980s. (Henn had resisted extradition, arguing that he was innocent and that he feared for his life if sent to jail in Arizona.) * CRIMES ALLEGEDLY HAPPENED: In Arizona (USA) at a rectory, swimming pool and sandwich shop. * CURRENT WHEREABOUTS: Unknown * MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENT: Official extradition ordered in July 2006 but Henn fled just prior to announcement * HIS COLLEAGUES/SUPERVISORS INCLUDE: Phoenix Arizona's Archbishop Thomas Olmstead * LINKS: http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news3/2003_08_06_Wagner_ExValley_Joseph_Henn_3.htm http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2006/07_08/2006_08_03_ANSA_PaedophilePriest.htm http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2006/07_08/2006_07_29_ArizonaRepublic_PriestWho.htm http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2006/07_08/2006_08_01_Dunklin_PriestWanted.htm http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2006/07_08/2006_08_02_Clancy_PriestSkips.htm PRIEST: Father James Tully * LAST KNOWN LOCATION: New Jersey, USA * IS CHARGED WITH: Sexual molestation and disorderly conduct in Wisconsin in 1992. * DISPOSITION OF CHARGES: He pleaded 'no contest' on May 26, 1992 * CRIMES HAPPENED: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA) * CURRENT WHEREABOUTS: Little Falls, New Jersey (USA) * MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENT: Tully was laicized by the Vatican in February 2009. * HIS COLLEAGUES/SUPERVISORS INCLUDE: Fr. Carl Chudy, Father Robert Maloney, Father Rino Benzoni (Superior General of the Xaverian order) * LINKS: http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/spe/2004/runawaypriests/ http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/06/ashfield_man_calls_on_church_t.html http://www.1010wins.com/PHOTO--N-J--Residents-Protest-Arrival-of-Priest/3350037 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100509/ap_on_re_af/af_sierra_leone_church_abuse PRIEST: Fr. Yusaf Dominic (a.k.a. Dominic Yousuf) * WHERE HE'S FROM: Pakistan * LAST KNOWN LOCATION: Italy * IS CHARGED WITH: Molesting two young boys & was arrested in late 1996 * CRIMES ALLEGEDLY HAPPENED: At a parish in the Westminster Archdiocese in the 1980s * CURRENT WHEREABOUTS: Italian Diocese of Savona-Noli (as of 2004) * MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENT: As of 2004, he works as assistant pastor in Albissola Marina and leads a small parish in the nearby village of Ellera. * HIS COLLEAGUES/SUPERVISORS INCLUDE: Rev. Tony Brunning – bailed Dominic out of jail in England; Rev. Ralph Brown, who was the diocese's vicar general at the time – authorized Brunning's payment for bail; Bishop Andrew Francis, leader of the Multan Diocese (Pakistan) eventually allowed him to become pastor, but then sent him back Lahore (Pakistan); Father Field- the priest who worked with him at St. Francis of Assisi in Ridgefield Park in Newark Archdiocese; Rev. William Fadrowski - executive director of clergy personnel in 2002 who said he had never heard of the priest and didn't understand how he could have been allowed to work at St. Francis; Newark Archbishop John Myers - said he, too, did not recognize Father Dominic's name and called his presence in a parish "odd"; Archbishop Saldanha- head of the priest's home diocese in Pakistan; Rev. Domenico Calcagno – bishop of Savona-Noli Diocese * LINKS: http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news/2004_06_23_DMN_TheWanderer.htm http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news/2004_06_23_Egerton_SafeHarbor.htm PRIEST: Father John Baptist Ormechea * LAST KNOWN LOCATION: Rome, Italy * IS CHARGED WITH: Sexually molesting at least five boys over several decades * DISPOSITION OF CHARGES: Unclear whether civil lawsuits have settled or are still pending * CRIMES ALLEGEDLY HAPPENED: Chicago IL (USA) * CURRENT WHEREABOUTS: In Rome at a church facility, Curia Generalizia, P.zza Ss. Giovanni e Paolo 13 00184 (Tel. 06.77.27.11, Fax. 06.700.84.54, commcuria@passiochristi.org) * MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENT: Ormechea is now listed on the Order's website: http://passionists.ning.com/ * HIS COLLEAGUES/SUPERVISORS INCLUDE: Rev. Ottaviano D'Egidio, Superior General * LINKS: http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news/2003_02_27_Smith_LawsuitIn.htm http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news13/2002_12_16_Yetter_PriestRemoved_John_Ormechea_1.htm http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/spe/2004/runawaypriests/ PRIEST: Monsignor Bernard Prince * WHERE HE'S FROM: The Catholic Diocese of Pembroke, Ontario (Canada) * LAST KNOWN LOCATION: In 2005, he was at the Vatican, but is now in Canada * CHARGED WITH: Sexually assaulting at least one boy (He was close to Pope John Paul II and travelled the world for years as a high-ranking Vatican official, so could have molested kids in several countries.) * DISPOSITION OF CHARGES: In 2008, he was sentenced to four years in a federal penitentiary for sexually abusing 13 boys. * CRIMES HAPPENED: In the late 1960s at a Canadian church where the boy was an altar server * CURRENT WHEREABOUTS: Unknown, perhaps still behind bars * MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENT: A church letter from a Pembroke bishop in 1993, made public just a few weeks ago, showed that Vatican and Canadian church officials knew Prince molested several altar boys a decade before police did. * HIS COLLEAGUES/SUPERVISORS INCLUDE: The Pope * LINKS: http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2006/01_02/2006_02_02_McArthur_ExVaticanOfficial.htm (SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world's oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. We've been around for 22 years and have more than 9,000 members. Despite the word "priest" in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)
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