Richard Chung
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Richard Chung, O.S.B. (1951-1992), was an
civil lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pueblo and the Benedictine Order by a man claiming to have been abused by Chung at a Benedictine-run boarding school in Cañon City, Colorado
during 1982.
Biography
Born in 1951, Chung became a monk of the
Holy Cross Abbey, in Cañon City, Colorado. He worked as a teacher at a boarding school run by the abbey. He was later appointed chairman of the religious education department at St Mary's High School in Colorado Springs
in 1988.
Found dead on March 20, 1992, Chung had committed suicide by
Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph was quoted as asserting the presence of a "'probable cause on inappropriate touching'" for a criminal charge of "'sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust.'"[2]
Posthumous articles published by the corpse was buried on Holy Cross Abbey property on March 25, 1992.
Further molestation controversy surfaced over a decade later. A
repressed memories, alleged that Chung had sexually molested him during his education as a 14-year-old schoolboy at Holy Cross Abbey in 1982.[6]
References
- ^ "The Cost of Abuse" (25 May 2002). The Plain Dealer. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
- ^ a b Buynak, Jim (2 April 1992). "Police: Priest Who Killed Himself Faced Likely Sex-assault Charge". Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine The Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph. ProQuest Archiver. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
- ^ Gibney, Jim (25 March 1992). "Priest's Suicide Tied to Probe". Denver Post. NewsLibrary. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
- ^ Gibney, Jim (31 March 1992). "600 Mourn Priest Who Took Own Life". Denver Post. NewsLibrary. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
- ^ Welsh, Trudy (24 March 1992). "School Copes with Death of Popular Priest". The Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph. ProQuest Archiver. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
- ^ Torkelson, Jean (18 February 2005). "Suit Claims Repressed Memory: California Man Says Priest Molested Him as Schoolboy at Abbey in Canon City". Rocky Mountain News. HighBeam Research. Retrieved 6 July 2010.