Catholic Priest

Thomas A. Porter

Ordained: 1965

Thomas A. Porter is accused of abuse of at least one minor from 1966-1968.  He has was on inactive leave from 1968-1973 and was laicized in 1973.  In 2002, he notified the Vicar for Clergy that the Oxnard Police Department was investigating an allegation that he had sexually abused a minor 35 years earlier during his assignment at Santa Clara Church.  He has been named in at least one civil lawsuit.

Father Porter's Assignments

PlacementCity/StateDate(s)
Santa Clara Catholic Church Oxnard, California1966..1968
Absent On Sick Leave1969..1970