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Notre Dame Rector Sexually Abused Students Over 17 Years, Report Finds, by Matthew McDonald – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Notre Dame Rector Sexually Abused Students Over 17 Years, Report Finds, by Matthew McDonald

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By Matthew McDonald, National Catholic Register, May 28, 2026

Matt McDonald is a Register staff reporter. He lives in Massachusetts.

 

The report says students repeatedly raised concerns with university officials over Father Thomas King’s actions, but follow-up was slow and inconsistent.

Matthew McDonaldA former rector at a residence hall at the University of Notre Dame frequently weighed male students naked and alone in a deserted locker room and engaged in unwanted sexual contact with some of them during a 17-year span in the 1980s and 1990s, an investigative report commissioned by the university found.

Victims told the investigator that they reported the behavior of Holy Cross Father Thomas King to various Notre Dame officials over the course of several years, but that inquiries and follow-up were slow and lackluster, the report found.  ….

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