Here is a list of the stories from our ongoing series about claims of abuse by Catholic clergy and how the Archdiocese of New Orleans has handled them. Author: WWL Staff
Published: 9:36 AM CDT August 13, 2020 Updated: 10:30 AM CST January 3, 2022
NEW ORLEANS — Eyewitness Investigator David Hammer has been following the Church sex abuse scandal with a number of investigative reports that are still ongoing.
Here is a list of the stories that he has reported so far. There are more to come soon.
- Priest ordained in New Orleans accused of abusing minors while serving as Air Force chaplain
- Metairie deacon formally charged with child sex crimes
- Money, pressure to stay silent: New lawsuit outlines abuse claims against Metairie deacon
- Legislature ends statute of limitations for child sex abuse lawsuits
- New clergy sex abuse claims against archdiocese pour in as filing deadline arrives
- Leader of New Orleans clergy abuse victims group ousted over work for archdiocese
- New Orleans archdiocese announces changes to how it responds to priest abuse claims
- ‘No sin’ – former New Orleans priest says he befriended accuser, denies sex abuse
- Archbishop Aymond and his fiercest critic make peace, pledge to collaborate on abuse crisis
- Losing Faith: How a monstrous New Orleans deacon preyed on victims and avoided justice for decades
- Losing Faith: Prosecutors, victims reflect on pain deacon George Brignac wrought for decades
- Archdiocese of New Orleans pushed confidential settlements with victims of monstrous deacon George Brignac
- Losing Faith: Despite predatory past, deacon welcomed back to Catholic institutions
- Losing Faith: A monster emerges in our midst
- Latest figure in New Orleans clergy abuse scandal worked with Girl Scouts, was Pines Village pastor
- 7 names to be added to New Orleans clergy abuse list
- Suspended Metairie deacon is focus of child criminal rape investigation: JPSO
- Priest abuse victims question if Archdiocese properly investigated, referred cases to Vatican
- Despite New Orleans church’s bankruptcy case, 2 accused clergy predators can be deposed, judge says
- Rev. Patrick Wattigny, accused of child molestation, arrested in Georgia
- Aymond wants credibly accused clergymen out of priesthood
- New Orleans Archdiocese priests rally in support of Archbishop Aymond
- Survivors say Aymond ‘has lost control of his priests’ after difficult, lurid week
- Shocking allegations from Pearl River priest’s arrest last week
- Catholic high school principal blasts Archdiocese for not disclosing chaplain’s texts to student
- Man says 2 New Orleans priests abused him; church gave him unlimited therapy but no abuse listing
- Priest accused of 2013 abuse allegedly sent inappropriate texts to minor in 2020
- Former De La Salle principal and another religious brother accused of molesting student in the 80s
- Court sets March 1 deadline for claims of sex abuse by priests
- Abuse victims challenge legitimacy of Archdiocese bankruptcy claim
- New Orleans’ archdiocese adds priest to credibly accused list after almost 2 decades of allegations
- New Orleans priest continued serving 13 years after abuse claim landed him in treatment
- Victim of clergy abuse says Archdiocese tried to keep settlement details secret, against its own rules
- Priest abuse victims ask court to dismiss New Orleans Archdiocese bankruptcy
- LIST: Clergy with credible accusations of abuse against children in Archdiocese of New Orleans
- Archdiocese removes deacon in Metairie church parish over abuse allegation
- Source: https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/investigations/louisiana-church-sex-abuse-scandal/289-09d7c9f2-6a00-4388-aef8-26232f56f058
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