""I hope the experience in Windsor will be a happy one for you,""
""off and on for a year""
""He never stopped,""
""He got caught in Pinole, and they moved him to Union City. He got caught there and they moved him again. Someone in Windsor was molested.""
In spring 1979 Stephen Kiesle accepted a temporary assignment at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Windsor while administrator James Corley traveled to Mexico and Rome. Oakland Bishop John Cummins wrote a letter expressing hope the experience would be happy. Kiesle had been arrested a year earlier for sexually abusing six boys at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Union City and pleaded no contest to two crimes. He was serving a three-year probation sentence and was prohibited from parish ministry under church restrictions. Kiesle later acknowledged in a 2005 deposition that he worked at the Windsor church "off and on for a year," sometimes for weekends and sometimes for weeks at a time. Documentation of his presence in Windsor has not been publicly reported, and advocates say records could help survivors in Sonoma County come forward; one survivor alleges Kiesle continued abusing children as he was moved between parishes.
Read at The Mercury News
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