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(â€The Franciscans knew both Perpetrators had been sexually involved with adolescent boys, long before they hired Krumm and Wolfe and assigned them to work at St. Anthony’s. Despite this knowledge, the Franciscans assigned both Perpetrators to work with adolescent boys.†Following are more excerpts from lawsuits filed last fall in Santa Barbara Superior Court regarding criminal pedophile priest activity at the Seminary:)
Gus Krumm, pedophihle Franciscan priest, 1970s
As to Fr. Gus Krumm, long before the Franciscans assigned him to St. Anthony’s Seminary in Santa Barbara, he and another notorious Franciscan perpetrator, Fr. Philip Wolfe, contracted the sexually transmitted disease known as “crabs†while doing field work as novices (training to become Franciscans). The source of the crabs were adolescent boys Wolfe and Krumm encountered who, according to Krumm,were willing to do anything for money.
According to Krumm, Wolfe contracted not only crabs but other sexually transmitted diseases from these adolescent boys, prompting Wolfe’s and Krumm’s novice master (also a Franciscan) to lecture both men angrily and repeatedly with regards to the sexual promiscuity with these boys that resulted in Wolfe and Krumm contracting crabs.
Thus, long before the Franciscans hired Krumm and Wolfe and assigned them to work at St. Anthony’s, the Franciscans knew both Perpetrators had been sexually involved with adolescent boys. Despite this knowledge the Franciscans assigned both Perpetrators to work with adolescent boys, including Craig, doing nothing to stop the contact or to warn Craig.
“Undescended Testacles!?â€
Finally, with regards to physical examinations of students, during either the 1964-65 or 1965-66 school year, the Franciscans not only authorized such examinations but authorized them by Father Mario Cimmarrusti –a man with no medical training who was one of the most prolific Franciscan perpetrators in the history of this scandal.Cimmarrusti had expressed “concern†during a faculty meeting that some students appeared not to be developing normally, and had undescended testicles. ‘
No Franciscan questioned how Cimmarrusti gained such knowledge.Cimmarrusti then told the faculty, including Fr. Harris, that other signs a student was not developing normally included undeveloped sexual organs, lack of pubic hair, softness or femininity, or no changes to a student’s voice. He then proposed a program to the faculty wherein he would perform an initial assessment of freshmen students to determine if they were exhibiting any of these so called signs.
Despite the fact Cimmarrusti had no medical training, the fact the rector (who had worked at other high schools prior to St. Anthony’s) had never heard of such a program, and the fact St. Anthony’s applicants were required to submit proof of a complete physical exam by an actual physician, the St. Anthony’s Franciscan faculty, including rector Father Xavier Harris, approved this program.
Despite the fact Cimmarrusti had no medical training, the fact the rector (who had worked at other high schools prior to St. Anthony’s) had never heard of such a program, and the fact St. Anthony’s applicants were required to submit proof of a complete physical exam by an actual physician, the St. Anthony’s Franciscan faculty, including rector Father Xavier Harris, approved this program.
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Gus Krumm,pedophile priest, whereabouts unknown, conducts recent baptism
How Was Father Mario Going To Perform This Assessment?
Even worse, they approved the program without any understanding as to how Cimmarrusti would perform these so-called “assessments.†The Franciscans’ uninformed consent in this regard was especially egregious given that the initial assessment proposed by Cimmarrusti included factors which by necessity required assessing each student’s testicles and pubic hair.
Thus, Cimmarrusti’s Franciscan-sanctioned sexual assaults of new seminarians commenced, and by at least 1966 the Franciscans began receiving reports that Cimmarrusti was sexually abusing students during these supposed examinations. A number of future Franciscan perpetrators – including Van Handel, Johnson and Krumm – were St. Anthony’s students while Cimmarrusti was committing his Franciscan-sanctioned assaults. At least one of them – Van Handel – continued Cimmarrusti’s tradition and was present at the start of a similar assault against Craig fifteen years after the Franciscans first approved Cimmarrusti’s supposed program.
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Above are direct quotes, copy and pasted from First Amended Complaints in three lawsuits filed in Santa Barbara Superior Court October through December 2009. Full texts of these documents are available at BishopAccountability in the database under any of the perpetrators’ names, Cimmarrusti, Wolfe,or Krumm.
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