Office of Victims Assistance

Victims Assistance Coordinator

(509) 353-0442

Child Protective Services

Spokane County (509) 363-3333
(800) 557-9671  (800) 562-5624

Law Enforcement

Adams County: (509) 659-1122
Asotin County: (509) 243-4171
Columbia County: (509) 382-2518
Ferry County: (509) 775-3132
Franklin County: (509) 545-3500
Lincoln County: (509) 725-3501
Garfield County: (509) 843-3493
Pend Oreille County: (800) 669-3407
Spokane County: (509) 456-2233
Stevens County: (800) 572-0947
Walla Walla County: (509) 527-3265
Whitman County: (509) 397-6266/(509) 397-4341
 

 

Purpose of the Review Board

The Review Board is a confidential consultative body to the Catholic Bishop of Spokane and his advisors. The Review Board oversees policies and procedures to prevent and respond to sexual misconduct and other inappropriate behavior by church persons. Responsibilities include: 1) advising the Bishop in his assessment of sexual abuse accusations against clergy and in his determination of suitability for ministry; 2) assuring immediate assistance to victims, timely cooperation with civil authorities, and the just treatment of accused persons. 

The majority of its members are lay persons not employed by the diocese.

Current Members

Marcia Black-Gallucci
Susan Foster-Dow
Janice House
Susan Levernier
Richard J. Schroeder
Paul Wert
Rev. Tyrone Schaff
Rev. Patrick Kerst, Vicar for Priests
Roberta Smith, Staff in attendance

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ADMITTED, PROVEN OR CREDIBLY ACCUSED CLERGY PERPETRATORS OF CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE

NON-MONETARY UNDERTAKINGS OF THE SPOKANE DIOCESE
UNDER THE SECOND PLAN OF REORGANIZATION

Pursuant to Article 26 of the Second Plan of Reorganization, the Spokane Diocese will post on its website the names of all known Spokane Diocesan clergy, religious order clergy not incardinated in the Spokane Diocese who nevertheless were functioning as clergy in and for the Spokane Diocese, and other religious order clergy and religious that served within the Spokane Diocese who are admitted, proven or credibly accused perpetrators of sexual abuse. For any perpetrator of abuse who was a Spokane Diocesan clergy and is deceased, the name of that perpetrator will be posted in accordance with the policy of the Review Board of the Spokane Diocese which provides for publication of the name of the deceased perpetrator against whom a credible allegation of sexual abuse has been made only if that posting is requested by a victim of that perpetrator.

Spokane Diocesan Clergy

Reinard Beaver*
Garry Boulden*
Theodore Bradley*
Joseph Knecht (deceased -1956)
Otto Koltzenberg*
Arthur Mertens* (deceased - 2011)
Patrick O’Donnell*
James O’Malley* (deceased - 2007)
Bernard “Benno” Oosterman* (deceased - 2011)
Joseph Pineau (deceased - 1982)
Theophilus Pypers (deceased - 1957)
Daniel Wetzler*

*Indicates diocesan clergy who have also been removed from ministry pursuant to the provisions of The Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, which was approved by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in June 2002.

Jesuit Clergy/Religious

John Coughlin (deceased – 1965?)
Dominic Doyle (deceased - 2005)
Michael Kosak (seminarian – dismissed)
John Leary (deceased - 1993)
John McDonald (deceased - 1985)
Fenton Melia (deceased - 2008)
John Morse (deceased - 2015) 
John O’Brien (deceased - 1989)
Peter O'Grady (deceased – 1993)
William Ryan (deceased - 1967)
Michael Toulouse (deceased - 1976)
Benjamin Trautman (deceased - 1999)

Franciscan Clergy/Religious

Berard Connelly (deceased - 1999)
Louis Ladenburger

Benedictine Clergy/Religious

Gerald Dezurick (deceased – 1986)

Marianist Clergy/Religious

Augustine Ludwig

Outside the Diocese/Clergy & Religious

Joseph Sondergeld (deceased - 1969) (Diocese of Yakima)
Clarence Vavra (Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis)