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Sat Apr 1, 2023, 01:51 PM Apr 2023

Former Tacoma Catholic nun and priest added to clergy abuse accusation list

Mar. 31—A former Tacoma Catholic nun and a priest were added to an official list of clergy and others accused of abuse, the Archdiocese of Seattle announced Friday.

Sister Jerry Lyness and Father Thomas Phelan were added to the official list of "Clergy and Religious Brothers and Sisters for Whom Allegations of Sexual Abuse of a Minor Have Been Admitted, Established or Determined to be Credible."

Lyness was a teacher at St. Patrick Catholic School from 1976 to 1994 and she served as co-principal there from 1991 to 1994. Phelan served as pastor at St. Ann Parish from 1973 to 1983. Both are dead.

St. Ann Parish was recently merged into the new Pope Saint John XXIII Parish.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/former-tacoma-catholic-nun-and-priest-added-to-clergy-abuse-accusation-list/ar-AA19lhj8

Too little too late it sounds like.

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