Episcopal priest Jim Carlton Wooldridge was sentenced in January 2008 to three years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division and fined $5,000 in the 27th District Court on felony charges of sexual misconduct with a minor male. According to Lampasas District Clerk Terri Cox, Wooldridge was charged
Continue readingMonth: June 2022
Spotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest Bruce C. Fehr
Episcopal priest and attorney Bruce C. Fehr was arrested by the FBI in April 2015 for downloading child pornography. He was sentenced to three years in prison and 10 years of probation. Fehr was rector at St. Francis of the Islands Episcopal Church on Wilmington Island in Savannah and had
Continue readingSpotlight on abuse: Episcopal organist Jay L. Shisler
In 2017 an adult man sued St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, in Portland, Oregon for $3.1 million in damages related to abuse by organist Jay L. Shisler (1940-2001). The Portland man, in his 60s and identified in the suit as M.W.R., alleged battery, negligence and intentional infliction of
Continue readingSpotlight on abuse: Catholic priest and Episcopal organist Daniel Pater
Episcopal organist Daniel Pater was director of music at St. Simon of Cyrene Episcopal Church in Lincoln Heights, Ohio in the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio from 2013 to 2019. Pater had been removed from ordained ministry by the Roman Catholic Church in 2014, but The Episcopal Church did not
Continue reading