The Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal is fairly well known in the United States and now around the world. But many people don’t know how many priests have been credibly accused of child sexual abuse.

Just in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles alone, well over one hundred priests and clergy have been accused of child sexual abuse. In every one of these cases, the priest had faculties to minister in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. 

Childhood sexual abuse incidents cause life-long trauma for the survivors of the abuse. Too many survivors have suffered and continue to suffer in silence.

The courage of survivors who have come forward has inspired and empowered others who were sexually abused by the same priest to come forward, and has helped make society safer. 

Unfortunately, too many survivors continue to suffer alone, out of fear, a sense of guilt, or a sense of shame. It’s safe to say, the Church’s repeated failure to control the abhorrent acts of sexual abuse against children has thrown the lives of untold survivors and their families out of balance and often into turmoil.

Boucher LLP has been a leading advocate in California representing survivors of Catholic Church sexual abuse. We focus our knowledge and skills on holding the Church Orders and the abusers that permitted the abuse to occur accountable.

We use our knowledge, tenacity, and resources to shed light not only on the perpetrators but also their enablers who continued to expose innocent children to the clutches of known perpetrators. 

This is why for over 15 years we have been highlighting and publishing the Los Angeles Archdiocese list of accused priests to the public: we want the survivors who are still out there suffering in silence to know they are not alone and have resources to turn to for help.

Los Angeles Accused Priests

The following is a current list of priests accused of abuse in Los Angeles. The priests on this list have been credibly accused of child sexual abuse. The list of 349 clergy members has been compiled from several sources and exhaustive research:

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

If you suffered abuse at the hands of any of these individuals or others, we are here to help.

Contact Boucher LLP Today to Receive Honest and Compassionate Advice on How to Hold the Abuser Accountable

The attorneys at Boucher LLP have substantial experience with priest and clergy childhood sexual abuse cases. If you were abused by a priest on the Los Angeles accused priest list or one that’s not, we are here to help.

Contact our firm today online or at 818-340-5400 for a free confidential consultation. Our attorneys are here to listen to you and determine what we can do to win justice on your behalf.