Richard Allen Henry

Ordained: 1972

In 1991, Richard Allen Henry pled guilty to sexual abuse of four boys between 1985-1991. In 1993, he was sentenced to 8 years in prison. That same year, he was removed from active ministry.  Other victims came forward in 2002 and 2003.  According to the Los Angeles Archdiocese, there are a total of 13 accusers.

Before his 1991 guilty plea, the Archbishop had warned in writing about Henry’s inappropriate behavior around young boys.  Henry’s personnel file shows four pre-1991 complaints against him — the first in 1980, when a parishioner passed on a rumor that Henry had a boy “living in his house” every weekend. The other three were made in 1988: a layperson reported that the priest “grabs little boys and hugs them,” a nun said he “favors boys over girls,” and a pastor said Henry was spending too much time alone with a boy.  Instead of being removed from ministry, he received psychotherapy and was allowed to remain at his parish.

Father Henry's Assignments

Articles about Father Henry

• Los Angeles Times - Details on 11 Priests Missing in '04 Report (10/04/2006)
• Los Angeles Times - Priest Sentenced to 8 Years for Molesting Boys (29/04/1993)
• Los Angeles Times - Priest Scandal Echoes Family's Decade of Pain (17/06/2002)