The Diocese of Lafayette on Friday will release its list of clergy who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing a minor or vulnerable adult, the diocese announced Wednesday.

The list contains the names of 33 priests and 4 deacons, according to a statement from Bishop Douglas Deshotel.

The Lafayette Diocese release will follow similar ones from four other Louisiana dioceses, prompted by new pressure on church officials to disclose the identities of all offenders. That pressure resulted from the sweeping Pennsylvania Attorney General report last year on accused priests in that state, as well as local scandals.

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The disclosure planned for Friday is particularly remarkable, since the Lafayette Diocese is often considered “ground zero” for the decades-long Catholic Church sex abuse crisis. The diocese employed the first widely known abuser, Gilbert Gauthe, in the 1980s.

The diocese has resisted calls to release a list since at least 2004, when court filings revealed the diocese had paid $24.4 million in legal settlements to 123 accusers. The accusers implicated 15 church employees, but the bishop at the time, Michael Jarrell, refused to disclose the identities of the accused, and the diocese has not wavered from that stance until now.

Bishop Deshotel was noncommittal during a June news conference when asked repeatedly if he would release the list of priests associated with the legal settlements.

"In 1984, the Diocese of Lafayette was plunged into the heart of a terrible darkness when, for the first time, publicly, the Catholic Church was confronted with the harsh reality that men consecrated for God's work had betrayed their sacred trust and were responsible for reprehensible sins and crimes against the innocence of children," Deshotel wrote Wednesday in a prepared statement.

"The church's response, especially in those early days, left much to be desired. ... I have been asked since I became Bishop of the diocese of Lafayette in 2016 whether I would consider disclosing the names of all credibly accused clergy. After consultation ... I decided, like a growing number of bishops and superiors of religious orders, to release the names of credibly accused diocesan priests and deacons."

The task was not an easy one, Deshotel wrote. It involved a lay group reviewing more than 300,000 pages of materials.

"No document was off limits, including restricted files and even what for years was known as the 'secret archives,' " Deshotel said.

Below are the names of clergy The Acadiana Advocate's research and past reporting indicate have had serious, credible allegations made against them, along with available details:

Felix David Broussard

Felix David Broussard KATC ▲

Age: Unknown

Position: Pastor

Served: St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville; Our Lady of Mercy, Opelousas; St. Joseph/St. Michael, Iota/Egan; Our Lady of the Holy Rosary/St. Francis Cabrini, Kaplan; St. Bernard Catholic Church, Breaux Bridge

Ordained: 1993

Estimated time of abuse: 2014-2016

Removed from ministry: 2016

Details: While there is not a victim in this case, Broussard was the priest at St. Bernard Catholic Church in Breaux Bridge, and also oversaw the elementary school there, when he was arrested in 2016 and booked with possession of child pornography. The diocese removed Broussard immediately and cooperated with investigators. Authorities said the pornography involved children ranging from infants to 12-year-olds. There were more than 500 images on the computer he used at the rectory. He pleaded guilty in October 2018 and was sentenced to five years in prison.

Gilbert Dutel

Age: Unknown

Position: Current pastor of St. Edmond Catholic Church in Lafayette

Served: St. Edmond's, Lafayette

Ordained: Unknown

Estimated time of abuse: mid- to late-1970s

Removed from ministry: Still pastor at St. Edmond's

Details: Gilbert Dutel is accused of coercing a young boy to have sex multiple times over a five- to six-year period beginning in 1976, according to a 1992 10-page statement made by the victim, who was not identified. The victim also said that as he grew older, the alleged trysts with Dutel ended and he began being molested by Diocese of Lafayette priests the Rev. Lane Fontenot and the Rev. David Primeaux. Abbeville attorney Anthony Fontana, who has represented a number of sexual abuse victims in lawsuits against the diocese, said Bishop Flynn told him Dutel had been treated and “cured.” Bishop Jarrell later said he had never been treated for pedophilia. When allegations against Dutel surfaced in the local news in 2014, Jarrell was bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette. Jarrell was a monsignor from 1984-93 at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Ville Platte. For two years during that time, Dutel was parochial vicar at the church. In 2014, Dutel told parishioners at Sunday Mass that he was innocent.

John Anthony Mary Engbers

Age: Deceased 1989

Position: Unknown

Served: Immaculate Conception, Lake Charles; St. Hubert’s, Goosport; St. Henry, Eastdale; Our Lady of the Lake, Lake Arthur; Little Flower, Shell Beach; St. Gertrude, Andrus Cove; St. Anthony of Padua, Eunice; St. Catherine’s, Durald; St. Agnes, Eunice; St. Helen’s Louisa; Our Mother of Mercy, Weeks Island; St. Joan of Arc, Glencoe; St. Peter’s, Gueydan; St. David’s, Marceaux; St. John the Evangelist, Mermentau; St. Margaret’s, Estherwood; Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Leroy.

Ordained: 1949

Estimated time of abuse: 1952

Allegation received:1985

Removed from ministry: 1985

Details: Accused in lawsuit of molesting two young sisters in Lake Charles. Accused in separate lawsuit of abusing five sisters starting around 1957, continuing until they were adults

Lane Fontenot/Ronald Lane Fontenot

Age: Deceased 2014

Position: Unkown

Served: St. Peter the Apostle in Gueydan; Our Lady of Perpetual Help in New Iberia; Our Lady of Mercy in Opelousas; Sacred Heart in Baldwin;

Ordained: 1975

Estimated time of abuse: 1970s and 1980s

Allegation received: 1987 lawsuit

Removed from ministry: Unknown

Details: Accused in court documents of abusing 13 boys. In 1986 five boys in Spokane, Washington, accused him of abuse and reported to parents and police. He pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree statutory rape of a 15-year-old boy and four misdemeanors of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes. Served one year in Spokane County Jail. He was accused of molesting a boy in Louisiana before going to Spokane.

Gilbert Gauthe

Convicted child molester, Gilbert Gauthe, shown in this undated police mug shot, was released from a Louisiana state prison ten years earlier than expected. (AP Photo) ORG XMIT: NY109 ▲

Age: About 72

Position: Unknown

Served: Sacred Heart of Jesus in Broussard; Our Lady of Perpetual Help in New Iberia; St. Mary Magdalen in Abbeville; St. John’s in Henry

Ordained: 1972

Estimated time of abuse: 1970s and 1980s

Allegation received: 1983

Removed from ministry: 1983

Details: Convicted in 1985 of sexually abusing 11 boys; admitted abusing 37 or more children; served less than 10 years in prison. In 1997 pleaded no contest to abusing 3-year-old Texas boy; received 7 years probation. Jailed in Texas 2008-10 for violating sex offender registration law.

Aldeo Gilbert

Age: Deceased 2007

Position: 1940

Served: St. Michael the Archangel, Crowley; Sacred Heart of Jesus, Ville Platte; St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Abbeville

Ordained: Unknown

Estimated time of abuse: 1950s and 1960s

Allegation received: 1992 in a lawsuit; victims say they came forward in 1964 or 1965

Removed from ministry: between 1968 and 1971

Details: Accused of leading a cult of women who preyed on young girls. Two lawsuits dismissed because of time. One lawsuit was settled, according to KATC.

Michael Guidry

Michael GuidryAge: Born in 1943Position: PastorServed: St. John Cathedral, Lafayette; Our Lady of Fatima, Lafayette; Sts. Peter and Paul, Scott; St, Martin de Porres, Scott; St. Joseph, Evangeline and St. Jules, Petit Mamou; St. John, Mermentau and St. Margaret, Estherwood; Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Church Point; St. Anthony of Padua, Krotz Springs; St. Joseph, Patterson; St. Jules, Franklin; Sacred Heart of Jesus, Baldwin; Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Franklin; St. Peter, Morrow; Our Lady of Perpetual Help, New Iberia; St. Leo the Great, Lafayette.Ordained: 1971Estimated time of abuse: 2015Allegation received: 2018Removed from ministry: Removed in 2018Details: Convicted in 2019. Accused of and confessed to molesting a 16-year-old altar boy after giving him alcohol; faces criminal charge in St. Landry Parish; victim’s family filed lawsuit in August 2018. Provided photo ▲

Age: 75-76

Position: Pastor

Served: St. Peter Church in Morrow; Our Lady of Perpetual Help in New Iberia; St. Joseph Church in Patterson; St. Anthony Church in Krotz Springs; Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Church Point.

Ordained: 1971

Estimated time of abuse: 2015

Allegation received: 2018

Removed from ministry: 2018

Details: Accused of and confessed to molesting a 16-year-old altar boy after giving him alcohol; faces criminal charge in St. Landry Parish; victim’s family filed lawsuit in August 2018.

Marshall Larriviere

Age: Deceased 2014

Position: Unknown

Served: St. Mary Magdalene in Abbeville; Apostolate for the Deaf, Lafayette; St. Pius, Lafayette; Immaculata Seminary, Lafayette

Ordained: 1963

Estimated time of abuse: 1968-69

Allegation received: 2003

Removed from ministry: Retired 1995

Details: Accused in lawsuit of raping two young girls while at St. Mary Magdalene in Abbeville. Case settled in 2008.

Robert Limoges

Age: Unknown

Position: Unknown

Served: Our Lady of Victory in Loreauville; St. Anthony’s, Eunice; St. Joan of Arc, Bayou Pigeon, Diocese of Baton Rouge

Ordained: 1979

Estimated time of abuse: 1980 to 1982

Allegation received: 1983. Early 1990s

Removed from ministry: Unknown

Details: Report to diocese and police 1983 of sexually fondling minor in Eunice. No charges because he reportedly agreed to a plan of treatment. Accused of sexual abuse again in 1990s, but lawsuits were dismissed because of time limitations.

Kenneth Morvant

Age: Died in 2003

Position: Priest

Served: St. Martin de Tours in St. Martinville; St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in Lafayette; St. Anthony of Padua in Eunice; St. Joseph in Rayne; St. Elizabeth in Coteau; St. Bernard in Breaux Bridge; St. Joseph Seminary in Washington, D.C.

Ordained: 1961

Estimated time of abuse: 1970s

Allegation received: 2018, after his death

Removed from ministry: Unknown

Details: 11 victims claim in a civil lawsuit filed after his death that Morvant systematically preyed on them using alcohol.

Joseph Pelletieri

Age: Deceased 2018

Position: Unknown

Served: Immaculate Heart of Mary and Notre Dame High School, Crowley.

Ordained: 1965

Estimated time of abuse: 1965-1968

Allegation received: 2003

Removed from ministry: Unknown

Details: Accused of using hypnosis to sexually abuse an adolescent boy while at Notre Dame High. Lawsuit dismissed because of time limitations.

David Primeaux

Age: Deceased 2012 (suicide)

Position: Unknown

Served: St. Joseph Benedictine Seminary, near Covington; St. Thomas More, Lafayette; Our Lady of Fatima, Lafayette; St. Joseph, Milton. St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville.

Ordained: 1976

Estimated time of abuse: 1970s-1980s

Allegation received: In a 1984 or 1985 psychological report revealed Primeaux admitted sexual contact boys. A 1991 lawsuit by a single victim was settled in 2000. Allegations became well known after his suicide in 2012

Removed from ministry: 1985

Details: A 1984 or 1985 psychological report revealed Primeaux admitted sexual contact with five students at St. Joseph Benedictine Seminary where he was an instructor. Allegedly admitted to abusing boys while at Our Lady of Fatima in Lafayette around 1976. He also allegedly confessed to of repeatedly abusing boys while serving at St. Joseph Church in Milton. A 1991 lawsuit by a single victim was settled in 2000. He married and by 2012 was a computer science professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. The allegations were publicized after his suicide in 2012

Valerie Pullman

Age: Deceased 2017

Position: Unknown

Served: Our Lady of the Assumption, Carencro; St. Martin de Porres, Scott; Lake Arthur; Elton

Ordained: 1965

Estimated time of abuse: 1970s

Allegation received:2003

Removed from ministry: Unknown

Details: Pullman is accused of repeatedly abusing an altar boy over several years starting in 1972; civil lawsuit settled in 2007 or 2008

Harry Quick

Age: Deceased 1994

Position: Unknown

Served: St. Henry’s, Lake Charles; Our Lady Help, Jennings; St. Joseph, Evangeline; St. Thomas More, Eunice; St. Theresa, Duson; Lafayette Charity Hospital, chaplain.

Ordained: 1962

Estimated time of abuse: Unknown

Allegation received: 1988, Bishop Gerard Frey called Quick a child molester in deposition; allegations arose in 1977, according to Frey’s deposition

Removed from ministry: Unknown

Details: At least one lawsuit settled, according to KATC. Allegedly admitted molesting to Bishop Frey.

Robie Robichaux

Robie Robichaux Diocese of Lafayette photo ▲

Age: Unknown

Position: Head of diocesan marriage tribunal

Served: Sts. Leo and Seton Catholic School in Lafayette; St. Genevieve, Lafayette; St. Peter’s, New Iberia; St. Joseph’s, iota; Sacred Heart of Jesus, Broussard; St. Patrick’s, Lafayette; St. Mary Mother of the Church, Lafayette; St. Leo the Great, Lafayette

Ordained: 1976

Estimated time of abuse: 1970s and 1980s

Allegation received: One victim made allegations in 1994 and 2004; second victim came forward in 2018. Bishop Douglas Deshotel says he first learned of the previous allegations in September 2018

Removed from ministry: Placed on leave in 2018

Details: The first victim was 16 or 17 years old at the time of the alleged abuse, and it’s unclear why her repeated allegations did not result in disciplinary actions. Robichaux is accused of “inappropriate sexual contact” with the second victim.

Jody Simoneaux

Age: Unknown

Position: Priest in Diocese of Lafayette

Served: St. John the Evangelist in Jeanerette; St. Anthony in Eunice; St. Anne in Youngsville; St. Genevieve, Lafayette; religion teacher, St. Thomas More High, Lafayette

Ordained: 1982

Estimated time of abuse: 1980s

Allegation received: 2018

Removed from ministry: Placed on administrative leave in 2018

Details: Accused of “improper behavior with minors” while serving at St. Anthony and St. Anne and St. Edmund High School in Eunice more than 30 years ago.

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