. Jane 16, 1967 Rev<< Siegfried F>> Widera South Milwaukee.Wisconsin Bear Father t lhi<< letter is to infers* yea that you are herewith appointed curate et St. John de tiepoouc Parish* Milwaukee, effective Friday, July 14, 1967, You will kindly report O R that date to the pastor, Father Joseph J. Wataser. (tfader separate cover you have received a signed copy of the Faculties of the Archdiocese.) Hay I again assure you that you are always most welcome to discuss any of your problems with me. With the wanaest of personal regards and wishing you God's choicest biesslags in your priestly work, X am Sincerely yours in Christ, Most Reverend William E. Cousins Archbishop of Milwaukee p) If ADOM023277 o (C)fye (tttjancerg 2 0 0 0 WEST WISCONSIN AVENUE MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN S 3 2 3 3 September 11, 1968 The Reverend Siegfried Widera St. Maty Help of christians Parish West AIlia, Wisconsin 53214 Seer Father Widerat Religious instruction on the high school level becomes increasingly important, X am happy to inform you that you have been recommended to serve as oart>>tl<Jtoat Rev. William E. Cousins ADOM023293 February 2, 1977 Buena Park,California 90621 Dear Siegfried: It was good to meet >-ih you in Los Angeles and to learn that you have .;t already received a preistly assignment in ths priestly diocese of Orange. Upon ray return, I had occasion to speak ooth with the Archbishop and Fr. Sampon. The Archbishop explained that the term "in hospitality" is used to indicate that a priest may serve in residence in a diocese for an indefinite period of time. I discussed with Fr. Sampon the matter of your Blue Cross-Blue ShieM, your pension fund and your back salary for the four(^) months recently expired. He will be contacting you in the near future, and I'm sure will resolve these matters with you. This probably v/ould have been much better if you had stopped to see him when you last were in Milwaukee; but, I'm sure that these matters can be negotiated properly at this time. While our conversation that noon did not center upon the necessity of receiving psychological a>? e l s e * Should yo<< s e l e c t t h e second a l t e r n a t i v e , the Board would a s k pel/fj&dic r e p o r t s about your s t a t u s . YOJ a r e confronted toward a d e c i s i o n by the Board, i n what we hope i s very p o s i t i v e toward dealing w i t h your p r e s e n t s i t u a t i o n . ^ou may well decide to seek c o n s u l t a t i o n from o t h e r s l i k e ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H 9 | yew* b r o t h e r o r o t h e r s , b u t b a s i c a l l y you Will need t o d e c i d e , ^ ^ ^ o o ^ o i Tour p r e s e n t s t a t u s with t h e Archdiocese i s d e l i c a t e * Subsequently, your s a l a r y , i n s u r a n c e , and a l l o t h e r b e n e f i t s need t o b e c l a r i f i e d . We suggest t h a t you c o n t a c t Father sampon to f i n a l i z e your p r e s e n t s i t u a t i o n . Be assured t h a t h e l p i s a v a i l a b l e t o assists you through a l l of t h i s . On the o t h e r hatid, you may need t o look t o helping out i n a p r i e s t l y way during t h i s d u r a t i o n , t o g e t some method of f i n a n c i a l Income, The Chancellor, f a t h e r sampon* would be a b l e to d i r e c t you r e l a t i n g to f a c u l t i e s and b e n e f i t s . Bis address i s P, 0 . Box 2018, 345 Horth 95th S t r e e t , Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53201. ADOM023303 The Reverend Siegfried P. Widera Page 2 We do ask that underneath all Of what is stated, that you are assured of our interest in you. You are a generous and loving man, who has served as a priest for almost ten years* At the same time, there is something within you that you need to give adequate attention to, so that you can take away the suspicion and mistrust within yourself that forces you to run away. The Personnel Board is interested in being informed at the earliest possible time of your direction in all of this. Sincerely yours in Christ, Reverend John J. Waldbauer, E&ieSufeive secretary Priests1 Personnel Board CoTn Reverend Robert G. Sampon, ^y IB ADOM023304 OFFICE HOURS BY APPOINTME CONSULTING PSYCHOLOGIST July 13, 1973 MILWAUKEE,WISCONSIN 53211 TELEPHONE| AREA CODE \ Mr. Charles Polldorl Attorney at Law 2922 West Forest Home Avenue Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53215 Subject: Reverend Siegfried Frank Widera Dear Mr. Polldorl: This letter 1s being submitted on behalf of the above named 32 year old priest of the Milwaukee Archdiocese who was arrested on July 2, 1973, at 3:30 a.m. 1n the company of four minor males. Father Widera reports that the arrest took place on North Spring near Grand Avenue 1n Port Washington, Wisconsin. When 1t was alleged that Father Widera had had sexual contact with one of the minor males a charge of sexual perversion was made against him by District Attorney La Polnte of Ozaukee County and 1t 1s my understanding that the case 1s to corae to trial on July 16, 1973, at 8:30 a.m. It Is also my understanding that ball was posted for Father Widera by Father Rolland T. Glass, the pastor of St. Mary Church In Port Washington, the parish to which Father Widera had been assigned. Archbishop Cousins, concerned about the stresses and strains that the event had subjected Father Widera to, referred him to me In a telephone conversation on July 3, 1973. Hoping to be of some service to Father Widera, to you his attorney, and to the court, Father was seen a total of seven times between July 3, 1973, and July 12, 1973. In addition to the beginnings of psychotherapy, extensive diagnostic evaluations were conducted and It Is with these that the rest of the report shall concern Itself. Father Widera was first seen on the afternoon of July 3, 1973. Upon Investigation he was a very anxious and upset very fair skinned male of 32 with a pronounced German accent. On that date and hence forward he has proved to be extremely cooperative and has been making a real and pronounced effort to cooperate with me 1n all areas pursued. From that date to this 1t would appear that the anxiety has abated somewhat but the residual depression and the very understandable fear of the court appearance and the disgrace to himself and to the Archdiocese of Milwaukee perdure. Mr. Charles Polldorl -2Subject: Reverend Siegfried Frank Widera July 13, 1973 Father provided the following history. He was born 1n Germany on the 20th of December, 1940, which would be approximately the year that World War II started. He relates that his father, an engineer, removed his children to the country where they could sometimes see and hear the bombers overhead but Father can recall only an occasional Instance when they were 1n fact forced to the bomb shelter. He can remember playing 1n the burned out and bombed out buildings, recalling that at the time they were more understood as toys than as tragedies of war. Father W1dera*s father, ^ ^ ^ H H B , 1s seemingly a v&ry talented mechanical engineer. At the end of World War If he was Invited to the United States by a large Milwaukee industrial firm because of his knowledge of the drop forge business. Father relates that his father was the designer of the largest drop forge hammers 1n the world. Mr. Widera spent a year 1n the United States deciding whether or not he wished to Immigrate and at the end of approximately a year sent to Germany for the rest of his family who travelled to the United States 1n first class passage on the Queen Mary. Unfortunately for young Siegfried, who was then ten and about to enter the fourth grade, the trip 1s remembered more In terms of seasickness than luxury. The family settled 1n South Milwaukee where Father recalls that the day after their arrival, wearing lederhosen, he and his brothers and sisters were enrolled 1n parochial school. Considering modern day concern over jet lag and culture shock 1t 1s Interesting to note that the Widera children spoke not a word of English when they were dropped Into the Sacred Heart Grade School 1n St. Francis, Wisconsin. Father Widera relates that the language came to him with facility. Upon his graduation from grade school In June of 1955 he entered the St. Francis Minor Seminary the following September, He was further graduated from De Sales College 1n June of 1963 and from the St. Francis School of Pastoral Ministry 1n June of 1967. It was at that time that he was ordained to the priesthood. He recounts that during high school he was active 1n sports and that during his college days he was a member (appropriately enough) of the German Society. He seems to have gone through school with about a B average 1n both high school and college. His Interest In sports has continued after ordination and he still recounts his favorite recreations as golf, tennis, swimming, boating and 1ce skating. The family relationships are described 1n proslac terms. His father, as Indicated above, 1s an engineer and Father Widera sees ADOM023313 Mr. Charles Polldorl -3Subject: Reverend Siegfried Frank Widera July 13, 1973 the two of them as sharing certain "mannerisms". Father thinks that his dad "gets along with those he works". On the other hand he sees his father as being somewhat Impatient. The father and &on share some athletic Interests In terms of fishing and golf and Mr. Widera 1s described by his son as being a benign and loving Individual who 1s still somewhat ridden through with the stereotyped German rigidity. Father relates that Mr. Widera has been extremely upset and shaken over his son's arrest and plans to accompany him to Court for his moral support at the appointed time. His mother, B H S ^ B H B H B B B B B H * *s a l s o living and in good health. At age 63 she is three years younger than her husband and both of thera are cradle Catholics. She 1s seen by her son as a pleasant individual who is "able to get along real well with her friends". On the other hand, while her husband 1s Impatient, she "jumps to conclus1ons--does not take that extra second to think". She spends her time working about the house, visiting with the neighbors, and attending various social activities. Father Widera 1s the third oldest of four children. The father and mother's brightness have certainly been passed on to the children. In addition to Father Widera there 1s a 35 year old brother who received a doctorate In mathematics from the University of Wisconsin and another brother who received a bachelor of arts degree from Ferris University 1n Grand Rapids, Michigan. This brother Is currently employed as a salesman. The youngest of the children 1s a 30 year old sister who received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and 1s currently employed as an administrator of financial aids at the University of Illinois-Circle Campus 1n Chicago. All of the brothers and sisters seem to be making routine adjustments to the world about them and there 1s no indication that they are suffering from any more than the normal amount of stress in coping with the world about them. This 1s Father Wldera's third appointment since his ordination and he reports that all three of the pastors under whom he has served are cast somewhat 1n the age range and rigid temperament of his father. Sometime was spent examining the history of Father Wldera's Inability to rid himself of the German overtones in his speech patterns. He relates that his brothers and sisters for the most part have made a better adjustment to deleting the German cast 1n their speech patterns and that while he was a student 1n the Seminary the Rector suggested that he attend the Marquette University School of Speech Pathology department to see if the teutonic overtones could be remedied. Inasmuch as the family has always continued to speak German at home it would appear that the design was 111-fated. While Father Widera speaks the English language with about as much verbal fluency and basic literacy as any other Individual of his training and education, 1t 1s Interesting to note that when reduced to the written and spelled word ADOM023314 Mr. Charles Polldorl -4Subject: Reverend Siegfried Frank Widera July 13, 1973 he Is In considerably more difficulty. As a case 1n point he lists his age as 22 rather than 32, relates that he and his father are alike "1n mannerism" rather than stating 1n colloquial English n 1n mannerisms" or "in manners". It might be best said that his written use of the language 1s not Illiterate but clumsy. He reports that in the verbal communication area he finds it extremely difficult to preach sermons extemporaneously and will sometimes tape record the Sunday homily on one of the two tape recorders that he owns in order to clarify his conceptualizations. This led me to speculate on the fact that although Father Widera was basically literate 1n two languages I wondered if he was conceptually literate In either. For this reason three intelligence tests were administered. The results, I think, are worth considering: 1. On a thirty minute test of mental ability which has been used on millions of Americans since World War I and which is currently used on seminarians applying to study for the priesthood 1n the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Father Widera 1s awarded an I.Q. of 108. This places him 1n the average range of intelligence and 1t Is Interesting to note that the thirty minute time limit left him seventeen answers short of the 75 Items. Had he had enough time to complete the test and to plow his way through the semantics, the I.Q. instead of 108 would have been 125. 2. Because of this a roughly equivalent test was administered to Father which relieved him of the time limit. On this particular test he earned an I.Q. of 133 which represents a 25 point discrepancy from the first test. This becomes a little tricky in terms of the I.Q. equivalencies but assuming that they are at least roughly equivalent the increase from his projected 125 to the earned 133 is not significant. 3. It was at this point that he was administered a Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale which Is an individual Intelligence test requiring a one-to-one relationship between the psychologist andFather Widera. The test was administered by Mrs. o o o o o 9 B 8 B H H " h o 1s a psychologist 1n the Milwaukee area. I chose nottoaamlnlster the test myself 1n order to get an independent opinion about Father Wldera's Intellectual functioning. The most salient finding of the individual Intelligence test 1s that if one were to project Father Wldera's working knowledge of English vocabulary he would find himself dealing with an Individual whose I.Q. was less than the national average. When he Is dealing with very simple verbal concepts such as basic Information in simple terms or a basic comprehension of the culture in simple terms he performs very well. When he 1s forced to use the English language to abstract or when he 1s forced to define words 1n terras acceptable to dictionary usage he finds himself very severely damaged. As a result of this his verbal I.Q. on a carefully administered intelligence test 1s 111. ADOM023315 Mr. Charles Polldorl -5Subject: Reverend Siegfried Frank Widera July 13, 1973 Like many people who were born to be verbal 1n one language or the other his performance score does not equal that of the verbal. This 1s especially accentuated because of an Inability on his part to master material requiring new learning which is a function of the anxiety. As a result of this the full scale I.Q. on the individual Intelligence test came out to 106. This 1n contrast to the 133 where he 1s completely free from pressure or the 108 where he 1s under a close time limit. This led to additional Investigation 1n terms of Father Wldera's personality. The personality testing that was done on Father Widera 1s essentially within normal limits. It is not Indicative of anyone who 1s experiencing extreme mental difficulties or emotional upheavals and there does not appear to be an even remote possibility that Father Widera Is going to encounter what is commonly referred to as "mental Illness". What the test 1s indicative of 1s an Individual who handles his personality problems by essentially refusing to admit their existence and repressing into his unconscious whatever unpleasant vestiges of them remain. This 1s brought up because it ties 1n well with the confusion in Intellectual functioning, When Interviewed carefully Father Widera freely admitted that he found it extremely difficult to relate to other adults on an equal basis. One is reminded of the little boy In lederhosen, speaking no English. Inasmuch as he is unable to think comfortably (astopposed to clearly) 1n the English language there appears to have been a regression phenomenon back to the earlier days when he was relating well to his own peer group. Inasmuch as he stopped relating with his own peer group on the day he was dropped Into the fourth grade of grammar school 1t 1s not awfully surprising to find out that he 1s now more comfortable with minor males than he 1s with either adult males or females. At some level there was an arresting of his psychosocial development at this level and this Is the point to which Father Widera regresses when he 1s seeking companionship that 1s emotionally satisfying to him. If, in fact, the allegations against Father were true it would not be surprising inasmuch as the man would then express his sexuality in the area In which he was most comfortable as a social being. As unfortunate as 1t migfritbe, he would find himself regressed to the level that he was when he came to the United States. I would find Father Widera an extremely good risk for psychotherapeutic Intervention and he has already profitted and understood greatly from initial therapy sessions that we have held. I would not see him at the present time as a constant threat to the young people of the community nor would I see him as 1n any way representing a liability to himself or to the community 1n any other sphere. If the Court sees fit to place Father Widera on probation 1t is his plan and mine to continue with the psychotherapy that we have ADOM0233I6 Mr. Charles Polldorl -6Subject: Reverend Siegfried Frank Widera July 13, 1973 started so that he will in the future be able to relate to an adult population 1n a more adult fashion than he has been able to previously. I hope this Information will be of use to you in your defense of Father Wideraj 1f there 1s any additional information I can provide please do not hesitate to contact me. Youi trul Consulting Psychologist cc: The Most Reverend William E. Cousins D.D, Archbishop of Milwaukee ADOM023317 SIEG WIDERA 6/29/76 1. a t h e r a p i s t in Elkhorn, Archbishop c a 1 l e d - 1 i s a c o u n s e l o r and had c a l l e d i n t o | now a d v o c a t e for Mrs. VHHHHPBHHHK She r e p o r t e d to o o o t h a t her son had been s e x u a l l y molested by Fr.Widera w h i l e on a weekend f i s h i n g o u t i n g - Son i s B H | | age 1 3 , an a l t a r boy a t p a r i s h . Archbishop s u g g e s t e d ^ R a l l Widera f i r s t , then o H H H a s s u r i n g c o m p l a i n a n t s t h a t W. w i l l be removed from pa^T^h and w i l l r e c e i v e i n - p a t i e n t t r e a t m e n t , i f n e c e s s a r y . C a l l e d Widera - gone - h i s day off - l e f t message w i t h Henke ...to., c a l l me. T r i e d t o c a l l h i s p a r e n t a l home - E H 0 H H H H B ^ B H H H S H B B - b u t an unpublished number - n o . i n f o . a v a l 1 - 6/30 Contacted Widera i n P.M. - appointment tomorrow. 7/1 At Swan - 10:30 A.M. - Widera a d m i t t e d t h a t he made " a s l i p " . He took boy f i s h i n g a l o n e about 3 weeks a g o . He had heard n o t h i n g a b o u t the i n c i d e n t . He does n o t know therapist. He has been s e e i n g ^ Q ^ H B l U E ^ o r P a s t 3 y e a r s . He i s "on p r o b a t i o n " w i t h the law - ends in August. He was a p p a r e n t l y shook by t h i s d i s c o v e r y and sought a d v i c e what to d o . I informed him t h a t he p r o b a b l y would be t r a n s f e r r e d and would need i n - p a t i e n t t r e a t m e n t . I would t r y t o keep the H d on t h e t h i n g , so no p o l i c e r e c o r d would be made. He went to h i s s i s t e r ' s a t f l H l i H H f r ~ P a r e n t ' s n u m D e r ^ ^ H H H H a n d informed h e r of h i s problem. I can c a l l h e r t ^ ^ ^ t f o r r r i h i m to c a l l me b a c k . P a r e n t s w i l l n o t be i n formed. Immediately c a l l e d M H B W ^ M a t Lakeland Counseling Cent e r , E l k h o r n , H H H H H H H H H H H H B ^ m i l e s e a s t of Elkhorn < H H B H B H H B H H H H l * - 4 H H H H H 1 a l s o works t h e r e was guided by h i m ) . Made a p p ' t t o m e e t H H I M r s . |and B B | o n Thursday, J u l y 8 a t 2 P.M. a t E l k h o r n . Isaid M r s . H B H H H ^ n < t know what t o do a f t e r she p u l l e d t h i s i n f o , o u t of the boy. Son must have m a n i f e s t e d some trauma a f t e r t h e e x p e r i e n c e . She c a l l e d H | He f e e l s t h a t boy needs some h e l p t o r e - e s t a b l i s h s p i r i t u a l v a l u e s and a t t i t u d e s tox^ard Church and p r i e s t s . Mrs. had n o t gone t o p o l i c e . She i s H S H H U t t H B R f e B U I land a p p a r e n t l y feared r e p r i s a l s from Church i f she would go to p o l i c e . She does n o t want p r i e s t s from p a r i s h t o couns e l the boy. B H H B f e e l s t h a t ^ ^ o h o l may be W i d e r a ' s basic problem. He w i l l c o n t a c t Mrs. H H and c o n v i n c e h e r n o t t o a c t w i t h p o l i c e , i f Church removes W. from p a r i s h , and g e t s him h e l p , a s w e l l as c o u n s e l s the boy. Widera c a l l e d back - gave him above i n f o . He asked what he should d o . I suggested no f u r t h e r a c t i o n a t t h i s t i m e , b u t he should p r e p a r e t o be r e - a s s i g n e d - which i s p r o b a b l y the A r c h b i s h o p ' s recommendation. W i l l c a l l Wtdera immediately a f t e r T h u r s . m e e t i n g - he w i l l meet me i n E l k h o r n . C a l l e d and l e f t above i n f o r m a t i o n w i t h Ralph bishop. F << f o r the Arch- ADOM023318 SIEG WIDERA 7/7 2. jailed - had received note from Fr.W. saying that he would not be in for appointment because he would be going to St.Vincent Hospital,etc, - m | d i d not know what had happened but was greatly concerned that if Fr.W. leaves state during this probationary peiod, he could be picked up and immediately sent to prison without any further court trial. Q H O B is the de facto probationary officer. Has seen Widera weekly for past 3 years. I ^ ^ H feels that if Fr.Widers must be sent to hospitalization, it must be wi thin State (at least during next 60 days)- B | doubts value of in-patient treatment however. If ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ o w i l l not approach police, ^ s u g g e s t s that Fr.W. remain in Delalvan - at least temporarily. He suggests that I offer services of the Archdiocese for a one shot evaluation of the boy(to determine if there be any traumatic damages(usually in these cases, there is not). Q m ^ ^ a t first was disturbed that his patient was being sent out of State without consultation with Q B Q I explained that nothing was finalized yet - and in view of his probationary situation, he probably would not be sent.(If necessary, B H B i w o u l d suggest Milw. Sanitarium). I also explained that I was following Archbishop's agenda = contact, Widera, then H S 0 t h e n mother,etc. ^sked me to report back to him after Conference mother,etc. Discussed briefly with him the situation. B U B H ^ e e I - s if Widera goes,this above relationship will deteriorate, m feels that Widera is non-communicative, and willing to agree to anything and self-destructive(not suicidal,however). ^ H H f l | feels that "one slip" in 3 years is not too bad a ^aclc record. 7/8 [called - Probation o f f i c e r i s a c t u a l l y a member of h i s p a r i s h - a t t e n d s W's Mass r e g u l a r l y . If W. i s moved out of the S t a t e , P. o f f i c e r w i l l ask "Why?" Also, if W. i s moved before probation period i s over, P.O. w i l l find out the reason. H H ^ o e s not know the legal consequences if P.O. finds out post hoc what happened p r e hoc - d o e s n ' t know what a t t o r n e y to c a l l . Went to Lakeland Counseling Center a t Elkhorn - met fl^H m | Mrs. H I H H J a n d ^ H H ' beard fl^^H s t o r y - mature lad of 10 years - i n c i d e n t happened in lake while swimmingalso n e x t d a y i n s a c r i s t y before Mass. - Mrs. H H J I was not seeking h o s p i t a l i z a t i o n - only t h a t FrTw^oe moved from p a r i s h - she d o e s n ' t want to see him - otherwise she w i l l take her children out of School - she understands t h a t Fr.W. i s s i c k but was g r e a t l y o d i s i l l u s i o n e d by h i s conduct - she agreed to bring B O B t o H B B B H H B f ? r a n evaluation to see if any traumatic e f f e c t s . No c o s t to h e r . I t r i e d to help the boy s o r t through h i s f e e l i n g s . * indicated t h a t ADOM023319 3. I had spoken to ^ H H H H i te:counseling for Fr. W.(I did not reveal that Fr.W. had been seeing him for 3 y r s . already) Then called Fr. W. to come to Elkhorn r e s t a u r a n t . - told him to re-schedule h i s appointments with - find himself a S p i r i t u a l d i r e c t o r - a n t i c i p a t e moving from Deiavan a f t e r h i s probation i s over - not to t e l l Fr. Henke a t t h i s time - stay away from Mrs. ^ ^ | m and son - a l s o stay away from another boy he is seen with frequently Reported to Archbishop. He agreed that Fr. W. should c ntinue w i t h ^ m ~ should not be moved out of State for h o s p i t a l i z a t i o n - w i l l move Fr.W. a f t e r probation per'od i s over(I s h a l l find out when f r o m ^ m ^ ) . He said I can c a l l Paul Noelke Co. attorneys to see if Probation Dept. has recourse if i t post factum learns of a v i o l a t i o n that happened pre factum - or ea 11 fiHBHHHH- He agreed Archdiocese would pay for evaluation of boy. He thought "cover-up" removing Fr.W. in Fall because of shortage of p r i e s t s ( o n l y 2 men necessary in winter a t St.Andrew's) would be very f e a s i b l e . He indicated that Fr.Vojtik would be leaving a l s o . Perhaps Fr.Ron Kotecki could go there a f t e r he r e t u r n s from Mexico Called H H H | - gave him above report - he does not know exact day of probation termination: but presumes i t to be mid-August - he is concerned that Widera get a good spot without pressures as next assignment - wishes me to influence Personnel Board a t that time - f l H H H w i l l c a l l Personnel Board,too, if necessary. ^^^^^^ - He w i l l c a l l Mrs, ^ ^ ^ o a n d make an appointment for m m e t c ^ ^ ^ ^ H H ^ H called - M r s . ^ ^ ^ ^ J had heard from no-one I told him I had contacted H H and Archbishop -Widera w i l l probably not be moved t i l l a f t e r Labor Day because of replacement problems -he should give t h i s info, to Mrs. I called B H f l H H ? f f i c ? ~ o n vacation t i l l the 10th - his secretary has been trying to reach Mrs. H j ^ ^ ^ J to make an appointment with her and boy - s n e w i l l continue to t r y to reach her to s e t up the appointment. ADOM023320 SIEG WIDERA 8/20 4. B H H H K called - he had seen M r s J H ^ H and sona) no permanent damage to son - spent 3 hrs. with mother. b) Waldbauer called - Henke had called him and wanted Widera removed - he had learned about incident from other people - then he asked Mrs. o o o o o a b o u t it. Waldbauer agreed to get supply help for the parish. c) Called H H B H " P a r ? l e terminated Aug.lfoth, he learned from lawyer. d) Called Henke and Widera - they agreed that W. would go "on vacation"(California!) as soon as Waldbauer would find supply help. Then he would be transferred. W. should tell people only that he's going on vacation. e) Called Waldbauer - he will hunt - has not alerted Board to this case - in agreement with above arrangements. 8/23 Told Archbishop of the above developments. 9/27 Approached Esser about above - the Personnel Board has heard nothing from anyone - Archbishop has not spjoken to Personnel Board about this matter - however, Paul knew that Wldera's father had been to Delavan and moved out Siegfried's belongings - Paul would have problem in conscience to re-assign > Siegfried- When? and should they really - in view of Widera's record??? H H H I c a l l e d - Widera calls him every week to 10 days from Calif. - he is living with his brother - dad is very incensed (disowning Sieg?) about matter - H H H H said Siegfried said that maybe he should stay in California and get himself a job(outside minis try) . f l ^ ^ H wondered if this should be the direction of counseTT^I reluctantly agreed - esp. in view of Esser's above comments. H H H ^ i l l call Esser and di cuss this with him. I explained that if he sought ministry out there I would feel obliged to send reports to the diocese in which he works. 1/77 Waldbauer gave me address of Widera in Calif. - called but he has not heard from Widera recently - Widera was in to see Personnel Board recently. 1/11/77 Met Widera for lunch in L.A. He will work in Orange diocese - showed me letter of app't. - confused with expression "in hospitality". He was concerned about 4 rao.back pay, Blue Cross, Pension Fund - Said that I would confer with Sampon when T returncf letter 1/7 ADOM023321 St Pius V Church BUENA PARK, CALIFORNIA MARCH 27TH, 1977 5TH SUNDAY OF LENT "PHASE TELL ME THINGS ABOUT BEING A PRIEST" Dear Padre, Please tell me things about being a priest;. We used to have Father Murphy here . . . But the bishop changed him, and now the new priest is grouchy at us servers, and I'm afraid to ask him. . , . REVEREND JAMES PIERSE, fetter REV. DENIS LYONS, Awt. REV. DANIEL HOPCUS, A<>t be notified three month* In advance. Sincerely yours, Tommy Dear Tommy, I'm not sure what it is that you would like to know. But let me say a little about the priesthood and about the seminary where young men prepare (or becoming priests. The priest is, first of all, a Christian like all the other people in the Church. He believes that he and all of us followers of Jesus must try to love and serve other people, just like Jesus did, and must try to make the world a better place to live. Most people serve others by getting married and living for their children and for each other. They also help other people,, too, by the Jobs that they have and by lots of acts of charity, but their families are their first responsibility. B i t the priest wants to serve other people in a special way. He wants to help people love God better by preaching to them on Sunday. He.wants to bring them the sacraments -- Penance, Holy Communion, the Sacrament of the Sick -- when they are in the hospital or- sick at home. He wants to offer Mass, so that all the other Christians can come near the altar in church and can worship God their Father together and receive Jesus in Holy Communion together. These are some of the ways that a priest tries to make the world better. He helps other Christians grow in faith and hope and love, so that they, too, will, keep-trying to make the world better. The priest does not marry and raise a family of his own, but he helps all the dads and moms and kids become better in their families. Boys and young men who think they would like to become priests go to a seminary. In the high-school seminary, they study English and science and math and all the other subjects. They play sports like kids do everywhere. But each day they also have time for: prayer and for taking part in Mass and communion, There are priest-counselors there, and the seminarians talk things over with them. As time goes on, some of the boys decide that the priesthood is hot what they really want, and they go back home. Others, on the contrary, become more convinced than.ever that being a priest is exactly what they want to be. Of course, the final decision to be a priest is not made uhtii the person is about 24 or 25 years old. K you have any other questions you are not sure of, Tommy, just write again and ask about them. I am glad to answer you. The Padre Father John Farnik, C.SS.R. Published with Ecclesiastical Approval Copyright (C) l?77, Uguori PoblicaHom, All Ri^Mi Rwerved/Llguori, Mo. t30S7 \*V> -6 S\- >oo -v>> ADOM023322 ST. PIUS V -- BUENA PARK PAGE TWO ! i I j Sixty-eight years of daily MASS -- Lawrence WELK The man whose name is synonymous with "champagne music" has spent a lifetime in close proximity to sacrificial wine. Lawrence Welk ,the nation's most popular bandleader, has attended Mass daily since he was five years old. He is now 13, "I get so much good out of it," he declared. "I believe in the Golden Rule and I believe in the Ten Commandments. I believe in God and the guidelines that He has given us." Welk was reared in a Catholic family in a North Dakota community that was 90 percent Catholic. That upbringing, he says, enabled him to cope with the reverses he encountered early in his career. The worst occurred in the early 1930s in South Dakota. The members of his five-piece band approached him with an announcement. They were better than he was, they said, better speakers, better musicians. He was a hindrance. So they were going on without him, under a different name. Welk had to choose between returning home in disgrace to a father who had opposed his son's musical career, or going ahead on his own. "I knew myself and I had faith that I could handle hard times and hard knocks," he said. "So just a few days after having lost my band, I made my decision to stick with it." The rest, as they say, is history, BEFORE AND SINCE, however, Welk has never let any personal inconvenience except illness stand between him and the nearest Catholic church. I i j ) | i i ] ; "There have been countless times when going to church meant going through all sorts of storms in order to go to Mass, but I never let anything stop me," he said. "Numberless times through the years as we traveled throughout the country I would reroute the bus and go out Of the way to get to a ehurch. Those added miles must be in the thousands, but going to church was as natural and as important to me as breathing." He added, "Many times I would call for a breakfast stop, and while everyone else was eating his breakfast, I would go to Mass. I felt better when I did that." \L. . . NEWS (* Dear Members of the Parish Family, It is with extreme reluctance and a deep sense of parochial and personal loss that I share with you the communication that Father Siegfried Widera has been transferred from St. Pius. His appointment to St. Justin will be effective on April 11, 1977. He has been with us only a few short months but during that brief time, he has endeared htaiself to all of us. We have grown to know and love him as a wonderful man of God who possess- ed those admirable qualities of which we were in special need -- leadership in the fields of youth direction, adult education, marriage encounter, charismatic prayer, athletic appreciation, and daily homilies. Always open, available and affable, we will miss his spontaneous warmth, carefree manner and joyful laughter. Next Sunday a farewell reception will be held in his honor in St. Pius V auditorium to bid him 'God-speed' y Vaya con Dios. Each of us will have the opportunity to thank him for all that he has done for us and meant to us -- for just being someone special to whom we could -- all relate o our own dear Father Sieg. Devotedly in Christ, , Rev. James Pierse LENTEN SCHEDULE DAILY MASSES are at 6:30, 8:00 a.m. and 5:15 p.m. (Except on Wednesdays when evening Mass is at 7:30 p.m.) CONFESSIONS; Thursday, March 31st, 4:30 to 5:30 and 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 6th, a Special Penitential Service after 7:30 p.m. Mass. STATIONS OF THE CROSS are Fridays at 2:15 for students and 7:30 p.m. for adults. OPERATION RICE-BOWL AMERICAN CATHOLIC OVERSEAS AID APPEAL collection is being taken up TODAY at all the Masses. Special envelopes are in the pews. Please be generous. F L O W E R S -- You may help beautify the church and altars for Holy Week and Easter by contributing to the special flower collection which will be taken up next Sunday. OUR SUNDAY VISITOR, a national Catholic newspaper, is available at the entrances of the church. This week's paper is a special issue on Catholic Youth and Education. RECYCLE LIFE -- DONATE BLOOD Monday March 28, from 2:45 to 7:30 p.m. Knights of Columbus Hall 8410 Kass Drive, Buena Park Your cooperation will insure a successful blood donor campaign among St. Pius parishioners. Please designate your donation for St. Pius V Blood Bank. SCHOOL NEWS Friday, April 1st -- End of 3rd quarter. Mass at 10:45 a.m. Stations of the Cross at 2:15 p.m. 50/50 RAFFLE: Our lucky winner for March 16th drawing was Doris Lang of Buena Park. Ticket No. 491 won for her ?691.00. Congratulations! Remember the April tickets are available after some of the Masses or call 828-1097; 523- 5507. ADOM023323 MARCH 27, 1977 FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT YOUTH NEWS Saints and Sinners: Sunday, March 27th -- serving Coffee and Donuts. Monthly business meeting at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, April 14 at 7:00 pjn. -- Youth Mass -- All the youth of this parish are cordially inf v i t e d to attend and bring a friend. Fr. Widera +>>-will be the celebrant. For information call Jon Martinez, 523-1131. May we of the Saints and Sinners takes this most Holy time of the year to remind all of you of the sacrifice that Jesus made for all of us. Young Singles: Sunday, March 27th -- L.A. Zoo, meet at the church. The Un-Game Experience at 7:30 p.m. Coffee and Donut Room. Come and join us. Saturday, April 2nd -- District Dance. Sunday, April 3rd -- Volleyball, Cypress College. Sunday, April 10th -- Easter Sunrise Services. For information call Joel, 535-7413 or Carol, 522-3049. THE CHRISTIAN SERVICE PROGRAM has a clothes closet with clothes available at no cost to parishioners in need. For information call 5235166 or 521-7872. ALTAR SOCIETY NEWS: Sunday, April 3rd, 8-30 am. Mass is our Communion Sunday. Meet in front of the church. There will be a special collection for Easter flowers at all the Masses. Monday, April 4th, will be our monthly meeting in the hall. MEN'S RETREAT for S t Pius V at Serra Retreat House, Malibu, April 15th. For information or reservations call Hank Ficke, 527-1447, Nick Cotugno, 522-4542, or Marcellino Cipres, 9267636. , * - - A D U L T ' EDUCATION COURSE conducted by / Fr .Widera, will meet on Thursday, March 31, *-"8:00 p.m., in the Coffee and Donut Room. The topic will continue to be The Mass -- The Easter Mystery (and befitting the season: a study of the Shroud). ^ A CLASS FOR PROSPECTIVE CONVERTS this WEEK will meet on Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m. In the Conference Room. (A make up class is held on Saturday mornings at 11:00.) All interested persons are cordially invited to attend. Please call the rectory, 522-2193, for further information. _ ST. PIUS V. SOCIAL CLUB sponsors BINGO every Friday evening, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m., in the parish hall. GRAND PRI2E $250.00 Cash. ST. PIUS V CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUP meet every Sunday (except the 4th Sunday) in the library at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome. For information call 828-8440 or (213) 9266865. PAGE THREE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER MASS this Sunday, March 27, at 12:15. NEW DIOCESAN RADIO P R O G R A M S -- KYMS FM 106.3 on Sunday mornings at 9:00 a.m. Mass and at 10:30 a.m. Catholic Dimensions. Each week there will be stimulating discussion about activities in the new DSocese of Orange. CATHOLIC TELEVISION Presented by the Diocese of Orange -- UHF Channel 40. "The Word Made Flesh," Catholic Scripture Study, Saturdays at 2:00 p.m. "Ven Esplrlto Santo," Spanish language Sharing program dealing with the renewal and special teachings by host Fr. Alejandro Burciaga, Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. "Its A Brand New Day," Catholic sharing and teaching program, Sundays at 6:00 pjn.; Fridays at 2:30 p.m.; and Saturdays at 1:30 p.m. THE O R A N G E CAMPUS of Loyola Marymount University is sponsoring a series of lectures by Fr, John Wright, SJ,, "Recent Developments in Roman Catholic Theology." The series will be held on Friday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 2 at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., and Sunday, April 3 at 9:30 a.m. Donation: $3.00 per lecture, $10.00 for the series. For information and pre-registration, call 633-8495, ext. 7763. BANNS OF MARRIAGE 3rd Announcement: Kenneth Haynes and Kerry Ann Lynch. 1st Announcement: Ray Carmody and Denise Capezzuto; Ron Chirumbolo and Pauja Nelson. YOUR PRAYERS ARE REQUESTED FOR: The repose of the soul of Andrew DiNobfle; the recovery of the sick of the parish, especially John Horoszko, Jean Krier, Henry Hawrylew, Edna Collins, Dean Ristow, Mary Kastner, George Gonzales, Victor Medeiros, Frank Montegro, Veronica Reck, Pat Underwood, Anna Marie Shepard, Kathleen Callahan, Betty Filadelfia, Bonny Gilien, Betty Wigton, and Clare Melton. JEST KIDDING A priest had been called in to deliver the oration at a funeral. The departed was a complete stranger. After the service had started, the clergyman realized that the name given him, might be applied to male or female. The details given him about the deceased gave him no clue as to the sex. He was getting more concerned by the minute. He proceeded as diplomatically as possible but he finally arrived at the point where he just had to know. At the propitious moment, the choir began to sing. He heaved a sigh of relief and bent over and whispered to a nearby mourner, "Brother or Sister?" The w e e e p i n g mourner answered hoarsely, "Cousin." / o December 20, 1976 fh b ^=y His Excellency The Moat Reverend William R. Johnson 440 South Batavia Street Orange, California 92668 ATTENTION: Father Michael Driseoll Dear Father Driseoll, A few days ago I talked by phone to Bishop Johnson about a possible pastoral assignment for Father Siegfried Widera of this Archdiocese. The conversation was very general and the Bishop suggested that perhaps something could be done on a temporary basis. My reason for approaching Bishop Johnson is founded in the fact that Father Widera1s brother and family live in Costa Mesa, California. In the course of our conversation the Bishop informed me that he would be absent for a while and asked that I discuss the matter further with you. I talked to Father Widera this morning and informed him that I was writing to you at the Bishop's request. I learned that he is leaving to visit his brother and will arrive in California on or about January 5th. Under the circumstances I recommended that upon his arrival he immediately get in touch with you or with the Bishop and that in the meantime I would have written to you and to His Excellency. \/ Father Widera was ordained in 1967 and has done good work for the Diocese in the places to which he was assigned, in his earlier years there was a moral problem having to do with a boy in school. This seemed adequately confronted through treatment and an intense desire upon Father's part to avoid any repetition of a previous offense. More recently, however, there has been a repetition, and according to our State Laws further psychiatric treatment is mandated with the strong recommendation that no immediate assignment be made in the environs of the Archdiocese. Father Widera has cooperated in every way and is presently under treatment. His doctor is somewhat in favor of his leaving the scene but expects that there will be continuing treatment. This has already been arranged and a doctor in California will take over at this point. From all the professional information I can gather there would seem no great risk in allowing this man to return to pastoral work, but there are legal complications at present writing. Incidentally, these legal technicalities would permit Father's going to another State as long as treatment is continued. ADOM023334 December 2 0 , 1976 His Excellency The Host Reverend William R. Johnson -2 ATTENTION: Father Michael Driacoll tr^\ VsV D I would not expect Bishop Johnson or yourself to act in this matter without first of all interviewing Father Widera and satisfying yourself that charity will not add to existing personnel problems. If the man could be assigned on a temporary basis or if he could be given some part-time work that would give him the support of living in residence with other priests, half of the problem would be licked. This must be left to the Bishop's discretion and this discretion should not be exercised until pertinent and important questions have been answered. I hope this can be accomplished in a personal interview some time in January. There is no thought of lncardlnation involved, and I am quite willing to accept the man back Into the Archdiocese whenever circumstances would indicate. Though I anticipate no recurrence of this past aberration, I would certainly want to be informed if the slightest suspicion were to develop. I would like to show fraternal charity to a fellow priest but I cannot be virtuous at the expense of a fellow Bishop. With the Warmest of personal regards and with every good wish for the Holiday Season, I am Fraternally yours in Christ, Most Reverend William E. Cousins Archbishop of Milwaukee ADOM023335 1 ? DIOCESE OF O R A N G E MARYWOOD CENTER 2811 EAST VILLA REAL DRIVE ORANGE, CALIFORNIA 92667 (714) 974-7X20 October 27, 1981 Most Reverend Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B. Archbishop of Milwaukee 3 i 5 North 95th Street f Post Office Box 2 018 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 RE: REVEREND SIEGFRIED WIDERA Your Excellency: Reverend Siegfried Widera has served within the Diocese of Orange in California since January 12, 1977. Father Widera came to the Diocese for medical reasons and His Excellency, The Most Reverend William E. Cousins, former Archbishop of Milwaukee, wrote His Excellency, The Most Reverend William R. Johnson, Bishop of Orange, regarding the possibility of extending the Hospitality of the Diocese of Orange to Father Widera while he was on leave from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Father Widera has served here since that time in an exemplary fashion. He was first assigned to St. Pius V Parish in Buena Park and was transferred four months later due to the fact that the parish was given over to the Irish Augustinian Fathers. Father Widera was then assigned as Associate Pastor at St. Justin Martyr Parish in Anaheim and served there from April 11, 1977 through July 6, 1981. He proved to be extremely popular with all the- people and a very hard worker in the parisji. Father Widera also works with the Nairn Conference and serves as Spiritual Moderator for all conferences within the Diocese. On July 6, 1981, Father Widera was assigned as Associate Pastor to St. Edward's Parish in Dana Point. This assignment came at this time due to the diocesan policy of rotating Associate Pastors approximately every four years. Father Widera has requested incardination into the Diocese of Orange. All the priests of the Diocese think very highly of him and those who have worked with him these past five years have recommended his incardination in very high and positive terms. On October 23, 1981, Father Widera's request for incardination was presented to His Excellency and his Board of Consultors. Once again and unanimously a decision was given in favor of incardinating Father Widera into the Diocese of Orange. ADOM023342 page 2. Some time ago Father Widera wrote to Reverend Joseph A. Janicki, JCL, Vice-Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee regarding submitting his request for incardination into the Diocese of Orange. At this time, in behalf of His Excellency and the Dicoese of Orange, I, too, would like to seek your permission to allow Father Siegfried Widera to be excardinated from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee in order that he may be incardinated into the Diocese of Orange. We would consider the date of Father Widera's excardination to be the same as the date of his incardination into the Diocese of Orange. I wish to thank Your Excellency for consideration of this request. I pray that God will continue to bless you and your ministry with the people of God.in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. With every best wish, I remain Sip<>". *-,-''* y, >>**-* n. ?? JS * ." o IV' ADOM023344 REMBERTUS GEORGIUS Miseratione Divina et Apostolicae Sedis Gratia Archiepiscopus Milvauchiensis The Reverend Siegfried Widera Priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee GREETINGS IN THE LORD In accordance with your request based on good reasons and having been informed by His Excellency the Most Reverend William R. Johnson, Bishop of Orange, that he is willing to incardinate you, I hereby excardinate you from this Archdiocese perpetually and absolutely and declare you excardinated according to canon 112 of the Code of Canon Law, transferring for all time whatever jurisdiction and authority I have over you to the same Bishop Johnson and his successors in the Diocese of Orange, with the condition that this letter becomes effective only when you are duly ascribed to the Diocese of Orange. Given at the Chancery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this the 23rd day of Novemr ber, 1981, > *'V >> i o<< '>o'o' V , ' o +Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B. Archbishop of Milwaukee 'U . >> Robert G. Sampon Chancellor ADOM023347 DIOCESE OF ORANGE MARYWOOD CENTER 2811 EAST VILLA REAL DRIVE ORANGE. CALIFORNIA 92667 (714) 974-7120 Reverend S i e g f r i e d Widera _St^dwardChurch ^W(R)&* Reverend and dear Father: In view of the needs of our Diocese and in accord with the provisions of Canon Law especially regarding your title of Ordination and officially advised that you have recieved a decree of excardination from THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE with assurance of your good character, your course of studies and your good example and in view of your oath which I have received (personally or before a delegated priest) by which you declare and affirm that you wish to be permanently attached to the service of "Our Diocese of Orange in California, in response to your petition, we by this present document incardinate and declare you incardinated in Our Diocese of Orange in California. Given in Orange, California on NOVEMBER 23, 1981 With our Seal and the co-signature of Our Chancellor. B i s h o p of , California q<=si ADOM023348 elavart, Wisconsin t I I yy 53115 Dear Father Widera t Following t h e recommendation of t h e Personnel Board, r e garding your assignment, I herewith appoint you Associate Pastor a t St* Andrew Parish* Delavan* e f f e c t i v e June 17, 1975, tovt w i l l k i n d l y continue to work with the P a s t o r , Father Eugene B, Henke* With the warmest of personal regards and wishing you \ /; God's choicest blessings* X ami \ Fraternally yours in Christ, Host Reverend William E. Cousins Archbishop of Milwaukee ADOM023410 March 18, 1974 Mrs. Dear Mrs. The Archdiocesan Priests' Personnel Board is in receipt of your letter dated March 2, 1974. /^\ We Certainly do appreciate the very "kind words you have to say about Father Sigfried Widera. The entire Board is most happy that Father Widera is doing so well at St. Andrew parish and your request that he should remain at St. Andrew will receive every consideration. Than"*? you for your interest in the People of God in your pa ri sh. Sincerely, ARCHDIOCESAN PERSONNEL BOARD Rev. John J. Theisen Executive Secretary JJTipml ADOM023411 February 25, 1974 Mrs. Dear Mrs. The Archdiocesan Priests' Personnel Board is in receipt of your letter dated February 20, 1974. Your kind words concerning Father Sigfried Widera are most appreciated and will be brought to the attention of the entire Personnel Board at our next meeting. Thank you again for your thoughtfulness and your interest in St. Andrew parish. Sincerely, ARCHDIOCESAN PERSONNEL BOARD J L Rev. John J. Theisen Executive Secretary JJT:ptnl r t ADOM023413 ADOM0234 I 6 F e b r u a r y 19, 1974 f Dear M r s . The Archdiocesan Priests' Personnel Board is in receipt of your letter dated February 12, 1974. We are most happy to hear that you are so pleased with Father Sig Widera. We are happy to hear that he is doing well in the school and shows so much interest in the children, I assure you that your kind letter will be brought to the attention of the entire seven man Personnel Board at our next meeting. Thank you again for the interest and kind words you have spoken in behalf of Father Widera. Sincerely, ARCHDIOCESAN PERSONNEL BOARD Rev. John J. Theisen Executive Secretary JJT:pml ,rf v J"W3* <, JyU^ OyLpuiJ^r^ AAJXA^ J^AJJUL AJ&J &-rxSL lA>A~&-yr*J CLXAJ^ ^3-r^UurwC ADOM023420 St. XXu^ ADOM023421 f\ ^XXJ^ p < ^ ^ < ^ ^ -- _^c~-- ^^^^ ^^ "T^JH^LXLJ / ^ jiS> . Cat J s> _^ ^s(~s a_j ~$ZA^JL^A. /UL^YULAJ^-J ^c^cs O-T^_XL> JcL^^X^^p JXLJL^~<<-JL ^A^A^XU ^Lst>-XL>-' a<^-c^y yt^c^^J^^ J& vX ADOM023422 St. jjaA&fdt eMifyh Sckool oj KesialUa, JHC. 2401 Sixty-ninth Street Kenosha, Wisconsin 53140 Telephone (414) 654-8651 BOARD OF TRUSTEES REV. PAUL M. ESSER, M. Ed. EUGENE R. HAMMOND WILLIAM KOPFER REV. j . LOMASZ SR. AGNES MARIE G. THOMAS McTERNAN JACK RICE WM. G. SCHMITZ EUGENE W. SCHULTE FERD SERTO GENE F. SOENS September J, 1975 Conversation with Pr. Rolland Glass Prom Paul Esser Pr. Glass' comments on Fr. Siegfried Widera: 1. He was always in bed or sitting--literally. ambitious. Not very 2. He drank a lot. The police brought him home on at least one occasion in an intoxicated state. He would leave the bottles laying around his room. He was a "loner." He had difficulty relating with adults. He had instant rapport with young boys and spent a lot of tine with them. 4. His family seemd normal.. His father was a very strict German. His three borthers and sisters lost their German accent. Fr. Siegfried did not. 5. He would do what he was directed to do, but no more. Would not really move in and take over with a job. He needs a programmed situation--possibly in education. 6. He did not take care of his person. He smelled. 7. A male grade school teacher saw Fr. Siegfried fooling around with the boys of another teacher. He said to father that if he fooled around in the same way with his students, he would punch Father in the face. 8. Fr. Glass had reports for some time from within and without the parish that something was wrong. 9. He coached the boys in basketball. He would be in the shower with the boys--all in the nude. When an adult male entered the shower, Fr. Siegfried covered himself with a towel. 10. Fr. Siegfried took boys swimming at a motel in Milwaukee. and could use the pool. This happened over a period of time. Father knew the owaer 11. Parishioners came forward after the fact and indicated incidents they had noticed and warnings they had given their own oiildren about not letting Father touch them. Fr. Glass' mother told Glass that Fr. Siegfried on at least one occasion had a boy iK sleep with him overnight in the rectory. 1J. Fr. Glass did confront Fr. Siegfried: "Circumstances are forcing me to draw certain conclusions about you and your conduct with little boys." Fr. Siegfried stopped seeing boys for a time but then went back to it. Ik. There was a pattern of contact with small bosy. 15<< At the trial, the D.A.' office asked for the full five years in jail. a "good Catholic." . The D.A. is 7*? ADOM023423 ARCHDIOCESAN PERSONNEL BOARD 6033 West Lloyd Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53213 475-0150 August 14, 1973 Comtnunication from Archhishop William E. Cousins t o J . T h e i s e n , Exec. Sec, of P r i e s t s ' P e r s o n n e l Board Re: REV. SIEGFRIED P . WIDERA F a t h e r Widera was a r r e s t e d f o r , a s t h e Milwaukee S e n t i n e l s t a t e d i t , s e x u a l p e r v e r s i o n w i t h young b o y s . He a p p e a r e d i n t h e Ozaukee County C o u r t y e s t e r d a y , August 1 3 , 1973 and was s e n t e n c e d t o t h r e e y e a r s p r o b a t i o n . The Judge, who imposed t h e s e n t e n c e , a l s o o r d e r e d t h a t F a t h e r Widera may n o t r e t u r n t o the P o r t Washington a r e a . F a t h e r Widera i s p r e s e n t l y s e e i n g Dr. H H H H H ^ H H t w i c e a week. ADOM023424 IMail - Print Page 1 of 1 FROM: DATE: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 03:05:11 GMT TO: Information SUBJECT: Question Question from the Ask Us: Ask A Question page: Name: Email: Question: I heard the Arch Bishop state that there is no higher percentage of pedophiles in the catholic clergy than in the general population. I thought about that, and I realized that I have met thousands of people during my youth, but the one time that I felt truly frightened was that time in the car of a priest, I was sexually groped by a very popular priest in the Delavan area. His name is/was Father Widera. I've always thought how odd it is that a man that was so popular in this town was someone that I hated and the fact that somehow it needed to be secretive is grossly unfair. There may not be any higher percentage of pedophiles in the catholic clergy than in the general population, but for me the percentage in the catholic clergy is much more than I ever hoped to have to consider. http://mail.archmil.org:8383/Xafl8999a9e9d939ecfcb06beec07/print.2<... 4/11/02 ADOM023466 LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING (hereafte^^^U has made an allegation that he was sexually abused as a minor by Siegfried Widera. J ^ J a g r e e s to present this matter to the independent mediation system as soon as it is accessible. In the interim, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee (hereafter Archdiocese) will p r o v i d e ^ l ^ w i* n a fun^ consisting of $5000 to be used for sustenance. The establishment of this fund does not constitute an admission of liability on the part of the Archdiocese nor does it establish any contractual relationship between jf^^y and the Archdiocese. These funds are being provided entirely at the discretion of the Archdiocese out of pastoral concern for the well being of tJ<2??L& 4-g-o-f o26. for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Jarbara Anne Cusack Date ADOM023474 w West Allis Police Department Incident Report 1st Degree Sexual Assault of a Child (by Priest) Date: Time: Offense Locations): 04-24-2002 7:00 pm 1 o H H I ' A ' e s ! Allis WI (ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS CATHOLIC CHURCH & RECTORY); sexual abuse occurred at this location from 1968 or 19 69 through 1973 CHRISTIANS GYMNASIUM); sexual abuse occurred at this location in December 1970 TOWNE HOUSE INN, now operating as DAYS INN); sexual abuse occurred at this locationfrom1968 or 1969 through 1976 CLUB, now operating as THE RAVE); sexual abuse occurred at this locationfrom1968 or 1969 through 1976 Investigating Officer: Lieutenant Greg Blaskowski; Detective Ann Phillippi; Detective Steven Fabry; Detective Thomas Kulinski Victim(s): 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis , WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-3O2-80O0 Fax:(414)302-8099 ADOM023589 West Allis Police Department Incident Report 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, Wl 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 2 ADOM023590 West Allis Police Department Incident Report Witness(es): (M/W;| Kewaskum WI 53040; p h # ^ J B B | j [ ^ J employed at| m i work p h # H H ^ ^ B H B retired Ozaukee County Sheriff's Department detective; obtained an oral confession from WIDERA on July 2,1973; details of the confession) HflH^HHHB F / W ; BHHHIIII^HHII^HHiDelevan WI 53115; overheard WIDERA molesting two altar boys after morning mass on or about August 22, 1976 at Si Andrew's Parish in Delevan WI and reported it immediately to Father VOJTIK) 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 ADOM023591 West Allis Police Department Incident Report (M/W; -- M ^ M , Port retiredPort Washington WI 53074; P^WKKKKM Washington PD police officer; sat in and assisted in obtaining an oral confession from WIDERA on July 2,1973; witnessed WIDERA sign a waiver of rights form prior to questioning; details of the confession) I (known as | I Delevan WI 53115; ph# g/g^g^gffrverheard WIDERA molesting two altar boys after morning mass on or about August 22,1976 at St Andrew's Parish in Delevan WI and reported it immediately to Father VOJTIK) I(M/W;| 53024; p h f l H H ^ ^ H J retired Ozaukee County Sheriffs Department Sergeant; sat in and assisted in obtaining an oral confession from WIDERA on July 2,1973; witnessed WIDERA sign a waiver of rights form prior to questioning) Offender: Siegfried Frank WIDERA, (also known as Frank Siegfried WIDERA and Siegfried Francis WIDERA; M/W; [ Green Valley, AZ 85614, ph#| S S # H | ^ H h FBI# 38100M6; WI CIB# 66702; former Catholic PriesTwasasstgned to ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS until June, 1972; was identified as the offender through personal knowledge by the victim complainant; booked on sheetttWKKKMfor5 counts of Indecent Behavior with a Child and 4 counts of Enticing a Child for Immoral Purposes; all charges issued by ADA Chris Liegel on 05-22-2002) Contacts): ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE, (3501 S Lake Dr, St Francis WI 53235; main ph# 414-769-3300; information about Father WIDERA's assignments in Wisconsin; granted permission/access to all property at 121 OS 61st St for investigation/photos; turned Father WIDERA's file over to ADA Chris Liegel) CO. | (M/W; 5648; ph# 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 ADOM023592 West Allis Police Department Incident Report WIDERA's ex-partner in TUCSOI information on Siegfried WIDERA) [ background DIOCESE OF ORANGE, (Orange County, California; contact is I voice ph#MHBHHMHBft3r9HHBHH^V fax# information about Father WIDERA's assignments in California and whereabouts after he was removed) HOLLAND AMERICA CRUISE LINE- WESTOURS INC, (contact i J ^ ^ m m m m T ' f 'IT1 I1 iidnnt 300 Elliott Avenue West, Seattle WA 98119; p k # B H H H confi(TM)ed that WIDERA was a passenger on the cruise ship MAASDAMfrom May S^-May lfh 2002, cruised the Eastern & Western Caribbean and disembarked in Fort Lauderdale FL) 53214; home WIDERA, declin West Allis WI had been friends with Siegfried interviewed) ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS CATHOLIC CHURCH, (1210 S 61st St, West Allis WI 53214; ph# 414-771-8313) travel agent that booked the Holland America cruise for WIDERA) | (M/W; o o o o o [ current Administrator/ Pastor at ST MARY HELP OF CfflSTlAJgCHURCH; 1210 S 61st St, West Allis WI 53214; Rectory p h ^ H H H H I allowed us to access to the Church, Rectory & Gymnasium on 05-14-2002 for further investigation/photos) Wisconsin Av, M i l w a u k e e W I ^ h ^ B H H B B B H H 3 ^ ^ ' &* VE, formerly known as THE EAGLES CLUB; auowedustoaccess the buildingforfurther investigation/photos) (F/W; Green ley AZ 83014, ph# o o o H H Siegfried WIDERA's sister; admitted that Siegfried WIDERA knew there was a warrant for his arrest and was fleeing due to that warrant) | (known as H ^ B H H B ; M/W; BrookfieldWI 53045; ph# Siegfried WIDERA's brother) mow known i I; Costa Mesa CA 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis , WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 ADOM023593 West Allis Police Department Incident Report area; Siegfried WIDERA's brother) ,(F/W; Milwaukee WI; p h # | H H H H i personalfriend of Siegfried WIDERA's; confirmed that WIDERA was a resident of the State of Arizona from April 1986 through July 16,1987) CHARGING SYNOPSIS DET Ann Phillippi reporting: On04-24-2002 i| WgtttttKKt^//^came into West Allis PD to report that he and ^ H H B H F were sexually assaulted by a Catholic Priest who had been assigned to ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS CHURCH, 1210 S 61st St, West Allis (WI). The assaults occurred between the years 1969-1976. The sexual assaults occurred in the Rectory at 1210 S 61 st St, in the Church Sacristy at 1210 S 61s' St, in the ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS Gymnasium at 6014 W Madison St, at the TYROLEAN TOWNE HOUSE INN at 1669-1673 S 108* St, (now DAYS INN in West Allis), THE EAGLE'S CLUB (2401 W Wisconsin Av in the City of Milwaukee) as well as in various other locations in Wisconsin, Michigan, Canada, Washington State, Oregon and California The victim complainant identified the offender as Father Siegfried WIDERA. The assaults consisted of WIDERA fondling t h e < H f c a n c 4 H H genitals and buttocks, having the boys rub his genitals until he ejaculated, as well as WIDERA holding the boys' legs tightly together, inserting his penis in between the boys' thighs (to simulate penetration) and moving back and forth until he ejaculated. The victim complainant,9/k sa*^ ^ a t s o r n e h m e s WIDERA ejaculated on him (victim complainant) and other times WIDERA just ejaculated and it went on the floor, car seat or bed. Iwas also present during some of the assaults and admitted mat he was also assaulted by WIDERA. ^ H B i said the most horrible assault to him occurred in April, May or June of 1972 when WIDERA sexually assaulted flBPin his bed at the Rectory l l f c > n a driving trip from Wisconsin to California. WIDERA had sexual c o n t a c t w h l i f l H l l H P r t H B N b o u t 3 times per week during this 11-week trip. This estimate would result in total of around 33 sexual encounters with the then^Jfyear-old victim. Jthought he was around ^or^years old when he was sexually molested by WIDERA. estimated that the assaults occurred in 1968 or 1969; however, both t h ^ M H H H M H F brothers recalUpp going on trips with them and Father WIDERA and ^ p E was in the flPHQkf0 the assaults most likely occurred during the 1970-1971 school year, when W was ^H|years old. ^fe|said that he witnessed Father WIDERA t o u c h V H l genitals over J(H|clotbing inside the Sacristy after mass. Father WIDERA also provided pornographic magazines f o r ^ ^ t o look through while both he and WIDERA were lying on WIDERA's bed, partially unclothed in the Rectory. t M P said that he remembered Father WIDERA took him swimming at THE EAGLES CLUB and r e m o v e d ^ H f swim trunks. WIDERA held W//Bnaked body against his own in the pool. said that during the summer of 1973, Father WIDERA sexually molested him inside WIDERA's VW bus, which was parked on the school lot behind the Rectory. WIDERA tickled fBBfc exposed his erect penis to j j j f e n d then placed^JBfr hand on his erect penis. 9 B B was302-800Q Fax: (414)302-8099 8 ADOM023596 West Allis Police Department Incident Report This case was closed on 06-08-2003, as the offender is deceased. INITIAL COMPLAINT; 04-24-2002 On 0 4 - 2 4 - 2 0 0 2 , ^ m i H V H B c a m e m t 0 m e West Allis Police Department to report that a Roman Catholic Priest had sexually assaulted him. Some of the assaults occurred in the City of West Allis while flHBMHH(BHHHHHHB^was a child. A voice page was sent throughout the station for any detective in the building to call the front desk I responded to the page and subsequently tool tcomplaint. (D INFORMATION ABOUT THE VICTIM/ COMPLAINANTS f B H H H H H w a s s?ft spoken and had tears in his eyes when I met him. The abuse he detailed appeared emotionally painful for him. ^ B P expression, voice and tears indicated the depth of this pain caused by this sexual abuse. Though I have handled sexual assaults before, none of the victims I have interviewed appeared so visibly devastated a ^ J ^ H H B H H H t t a p p e a r e d . In my experience, I have only seen this amount of pain and sadness on the faces, as well as in the voices and tears of parents when I've had to notify them that their child was dead. i currently employed as a decision to report the ) before actually coming to the police department. I asked him why he chose to report the abuse now.^Hftold me that emotionally he couldn't really even talk about the abuse before this.^(|psaw an article about Father WIDERA recently in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online (www.isonline.com). Seeing this article dredged up the past Wttk realized that even if he made a report, there might be little chance of criminal prosecution and that current Wisconsin case law makes it virtually impossible to successfully sue the Church for abuse. flmHMHHPtold m e that he did not care about that; he just wanted to report, to finally tell someone about the abuse that he and J ^ B H H H f e had suffered a t m e hands of Father Siegfried WIDERA. BACKGROUND AS TO HOW I 'MET THE FATHER WIDERA |, moved into^ (West Allis, WI) with her children. JHftold me that he and his siblings went to school and attended mass at ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS CHURCH, located near 61sl & Madison < o o o o West Allis, WI). Father Siegfried WIDERA, one of the parish priests (a Pastor or an Associate at that time)assigned to ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS CHURCH, came over to the house to visit ' v i t h ^ H ^ f e land her children shortly after she joined the parish and enrolled them at the parish 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8O00 Fax:(414)302-8099 ADOM023597 West Allis Police Department Incident Report school. This first visit would have occurred in the fall of 1969. It was their impression at the time that Father WIDERA visited with all new parishioners. They found out this was not so. Father WIDERA continued to show a special interest in their family, flflfc added, "He went out of his way. Even my mother thought this (WIDERA's continued visits and interest in the family) was odd." However, Father WIDERA continued to visit and became familiar with the family. 'told me that Father WIDERA seemed to pay particular attention to broken homes j ^ ^ p remarked, "He (WIDERA) played on the void that was there- being the missing father. He played this to m3 mother as well. He (WIDERA) gained my mom's trust enough to take me and< f ^ B H H b 0 1 1 day trips- Those trips eventually turned into weekend trips." In the summer their mother allowed them to go camping or go vacationing with Father WIDERA for a week as well. The final trip^Bbtook with Father WIDERA was when^HB'was ^jyears old. ^ J f s a i d , "I had just gotten my 'temps' (temporary driver's license) and Father was going to drive to his new assignment in California. We left West Allis, Wisconsin around June 15*, 1976 and I was with him until the last week of August or thefirstweek of September 1976. We drove through Michigan, Canada, Washington State (re-entered the US), Oregon and California. I asked f B | i f he had regular contact with Father WIDERA other than during his visits t o d H B house during the time that WIDERA was assigned to ST MARY, ^pfsaid he did and explained, "Once we started going to school, it was a normal part of the school day to have a morning mass. I became an altar boy. After mass, Father (WIDERA) would take us (the altar boys) out for breakfast. We would go to a little place on National Avenue-1 don't remember the name (of the restaurant). He (WIDERA) seemed very personable. He was also very 'hands on.'" HOW SEXUAL CONTACT WAS INITIATED: NO FORCE OR THREATS MADE TO< I asked<<^P^whathe meant by that ^Ppreplied, "Like tickling us- that kind of thing. He wouldn't just do it momentarily. He would do it for about 5-10 minutes. When he did this (to me) in front of my mom, she even told him to stop because he would do it for so long." I asked^jyiow Father WIDERA would tickle him. tjpfctold me, "He would pick me up and tickle my arms and sides. He used his fingers (to tickle). I think this is how he (WIDERA) 'tested the waters' because it (the touching) progressed from there." I asked?|f in what way WIDERA's touching progressed from the tickling. ^ ^ t o l d me that Father WIDERA initiated all the sexual contacts they had. Every sexual contact started with Father WIDERA tickling H U B P b told me, "I got to hate it when he would tickle me because I knew what was going to happen next." 0fb went on to say, "I would make excuses like I was sick when I knew things were going in the direction where he (WIDERA) wanted sexual activity. He always initiated sex by tickling." I asked^PI what he thought about Father WTDERA's relationship with him at the time the abuse was occurring. 4 H t replied, "When I was younger, I didn't understand it and I didn't know what to think. As I got older and the contact continued, I was really uncomfortable with it but I didn't want to lose the benefits of the relationship. He took me on trips and did fun activities with me that without him; I would not have been able to do. He also would buy me presents for my birthday and Christmas, like beer steins and stuffed animals. I still have one of the stuffed animals he gave me." 31301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 10 ADOM023598 West Allis Police Department Incident Report d ^ o l d me that he was never threatened and Father WIDERA never used force to get what he wantedsexual contact with f H as well as^flHF silence about the contact. ^JUexplained that Father WIDERA had a lot of psychological control and would use his attention as well as the trips as leverage. (fPksaid, "If things were going the way he wanted, you were included. If you did something he didn't like, he would pay attention to someone else. (Father WIDERA) would make sure you knew about a trip and if he was not pleased with you, he would make you aware of the fact you would not be going on that trip. He had a lot of other students and altar boys that he would take on trips as well. He had to be doing the same thing (to them)." I asked^Jp if he knew the names of the other altar boys that went on trips or did activities with Father WIDERA. flHHdidn't remember the names of the other boys. INCIDENTS OF SEXUAL ABUSE WITH J -- o >> AT 1210 S 61 S T ST: ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS CHURCH, RECTORY & GYMNASIUM (1969-1972) told me that that thevery first time Father WIDERA touched him in a sexual manner was after an early morning mass. ^ R t o l d me that at that time, ST MARY had a daily 6:30 am mass, followed by a daily 8:00 am school mass. All the altar boys liked to do the 6:30 am mass because Father WIDERA o would keep it short- 20 minutes to lA hour. Mass always ended before 7:00 am. Father WIDERA would usually take the altar boy(s) out for breakfast during that free hour before the school mass (7:00 am- 8:00 am).^Jp^escribed the selection for serving as an altar boy at the early mass as being very competitive, "because everybody liked the breakfasts." Father WIDERA would also takqflpRpver to the Rectory after mass and later, to his (WIDERA's) bedroom as well. iescribed the Rectory as a big building. The Pastor was very old, hard of hearing and would usually sleep in; Father WIDERA would usually take the early masses. The only other person in the Rectory at the time Father WIDERA hadflB o v e r would have been the elderly female housekeeper. Father WIDERA was able to sneak^Printo the Rectory and into his bedroom without the Pastor or the housekeeper seeing them. The first sexual contact took place in early 1970. f//^ believes it was still winter outside, shortly after he was enrolled in the parish school. I showed him a 1969 calendar I had found on the Internet and printed ("Choose a Calendar by Year"), ^ H looked at the calendar andtoldme that he believes that this first assault occurred sometime between January 2,1970 and late March 1970. fj//fwas ^years old or had just turned^pfcat the time of this incident. Father WIDERA took^^over to the Rectory after early mass. J ^ described the incident to me. He said, "(WIDERA) made it out to be like it was a mistake- that things got out of hand. He tickled me and then reached down and fondled me ( 0 V clarified this to be his genitals) through my clothing. The only thing he said to me when he did that was 'Whoopsey!' I'll never forget that! He said it in a joking manner, 'Whoopsey!' (WIDERA) apologized to me after he did that It was like he was looking for my input- how I would take it. There was not much of a responsefromme so he tried to smooth things over. It was like he was trying to see to what extent he could go." As ^ p f toured the Rectory and the church lalassa on 05-14-2002, f(p^remembered that this first incident of sexual assault actually took place inside the church Sacristy, not the Rectory. Father WIDERA continued to t a k e q ^ to the Rectory and later, to his bedroom after early mass. WIDERA would fondl(JBHfcigenitals and buttocks, sometimes while^JHi was clothed and later, while 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 11 ADOM023599 West Allis Police Department Incident Report "H e (WIDERA) really had to move fast!" I asked how frequently Father WIDERA had sexual contact withjJPrat the ST MARY Rectory. flv said most of the sexual contacts he had with Father WIDERA took place at the Rectory while Father WIDERA was assigned there. ^/Rtold me that a conservative estimate as to the frequency of WIDERA's sexual contact with^JPwould be 2-3 times a week, more during the summer, between 1970 until the time Father WIDERA was transferred to a parish in Port Washington WI (June 1972). I asked Wtf if Father WIDERA ever penetrated his^BBBfranus with his penis or any other object. f | ? s a i d no. I asked WR> if WIDERA ever haddJBfcstick his enis or any other object in WIDERA'S anus. J H said no. I asked^BF if WIDERA ever touched WKttf genitals with (WIDERA's) mouthjHfcsaid no. I a s k e d W l if WIDERA had flU touch (WIDERA's) penis with < ^00H^mouth. ^ p p s a i d no again. I asked^B^if he ever ejaculated during sexual contact with WIDERA. 0 s a i d no, only WIDERA would ejaculate. TOUR OF THE ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS CHURCH, RECTORY & GYMNASIUM (05-14-2002) On 05-14-2002, ADA Chris Liegel, Victim Advocate Pam Anderson, and I toured the ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTAINS Church, Rectory and Gymnasium with the complainant/ victim J M H H H M l The ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE had given us permission to tour and photograph the interior and exterior of these locations for this report. The church Administrator/ Pastor, Father Denis P WEIS, ( M A V ; m 2 B H l B f f i H B U t t B ^ r e s t A I l i s WI 53214; p h # H H H H | , allowed us access into the buildings. INCIDENTS THAT OCCURRED IN THE RECTORY ^pTtold us that he had not been inside any of these buildings since he was in 8th grade. We entered the Rectoryfromthe front entrance on S 61 st St. There was one staircase immediately to the right of the front entrance. The first floor of the Rectory had long hallway leading straight to the rear of the building. From this hallway, one could access the dining room, the living room, and the kitchen. There was also a bathroom and what appeared to be an office on the first floor as well. We walked down the hallway to the rear of the Rectory. ^/ft pointed out where everything was and appeared very familiar with the building. He looked into the kitchen and said the basic layout was much the same as it had been when Father WIDERA was there. 113 01 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414>302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 12 ADOM023600 West Allis Police Department Incident Report ^ ? told us that Father WIDERA would normally bring him and later, him andflf^fcback to his bedroom in the Rectory after early morning mass. Father WIDERA would sometimes make breakfast for them in the kitchen, which is still located in the rear of the Rectory. Father WDEDRA would have J B f r andlJPBIuse the staircase in the rear (east side) of the Rectory when they went to his bedroom so the housekeeper would not hear or see them. We walked up the stairs to the second floor of the Rectory. The secondfloorwas laid out much like the first floor: one long hallway down the center from which rooms could be accessed. I asked JHfwhere Father WIDERA's bedroom had been, ^/iled us all the way down the hallway to the last room on the right (northwest corner of the building) and pointed to the entrance of the room. Father WIDERA's private quarters had consisted of a small sitting room with an adjacent bedroom. The rooms were unoccupied but had basic furnishings in them. The window in the sitting room overlooked the front of the building on S 61st St. Jflfttold us that the furnishings in the sitting room were different from the way the room was furnished and decorated when Father WIDERA had been there. ^ ^ remembered that Father WTDERA had two long bookcases, a recliner and a TV in this room. The bookcases held books and Father WIDERA's beer steins. I asked jjpfcif any of the incidents where Father WIDERA had assaulted him had occurred in the sitting room. 4fl^said no and told us that they occurred in the bedroom. The door to the adjacent bedroom was open. We walked into the bedroom. It was apparent froi reaction that the memories came back to him as he viewed the room that so many of the assaults occurred in. J0frhad tears in his eyes and his voice faltered when he entered that bedroom. There was one twin bed against the east wall of that room and a dresser against the west wall. The window in that room faced north. There was a closet with sliding doors on the south wall of the room, located next to the adjacent bathroom. ADA Liegel asked ^ p if this bedroom still looked the same. ^Hjthought it did except the bed, which had been against the opposite wall (west wall) when Father WIDERA was there. ADA Liegel asked ^/^ if that was the same size bed that had been there when Father WIDERA was there. At first^Bfc said no- he thought Father WIDERA's bed was a double bed. jflB added, "This (twin bed) might be the same bed. I was so small at that time. Maybe it just seemed bigger because I was so small." ff/^. told us that most of the assaults that happened while Father WIDERA was assigned to ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS (January 1970 through June 1972) occurred in this bedroom. ^ ? estimated that Father WIDERA would bring him over 2-3 times a week, JJ^could not remember an instance where sexual contact didn't happen when Father WIDERA broughtjJHt to the Rectory. Hiad earlier estimated that WIDERA had sexual contact with him 2-3 times per week, more during the summers, from early (January-March) 1970 until WIDERA was transferred to a parish in Port Washington WI (June 1972). This conservative estimate would result in an approximate total of or between 248- 372 sexual encounters with the v i c t i m ; 4 H H H H B H H K was between^H years old during this time. ^told us that Father WIDERA started out by assaulting f//Halone inside the bedroom at the Rectory. The assaults started out with tickling. Father WIDERA would move his hands into 4^Bfc>ants and fondle his penis and buttocks. ^B^also told us that thefirsttime Father WIDERA ejaculated on^BB^ 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 13 ADOM023601 West Allis Police Department Incident Report was in this room. ^JP>>explained that it was the first time that WIDERA became very aggressive when he had an erection. They were both naked on the bed. Father WIDERA grabbed flH| legs, held them tightly together and inserted his penis between^Ufc thighs to simulate penetration. WIDERA moved his penis between4((^thighs until he (WIDERA) ejaculated. Father WIDERA had positioned f H facing towards him when he did this the first time. Later, Father WIDERA wouldundressJHf and fondle^lb and himself naked on the bed. Father WIDERA also brought b o t h ^ ( | and flMfrover to the Rectory and would assault one boy while the other watched. I asked ^ ^ about the time the house keeper almost caught Father WIDERA with him a n d ^ H ^ m his bedroom, ^ p t o l d me that they were all lying together in bed, naked, when the housekeeper knocked on the closed door that led from the hallway to the sitting room. The door from the sitting room to the bedroom was open- if the housekeeper had walked in, she would have seen them. Father WIDERA jumped out of bed and threw the covers over the boys' naked bodies to hide them. WIDERA ran into the adjacent bathroom to wash up. WIDERA quickly dressed so he could answer the door. 3 d told us that it was at the Rectory that Father WIDERA first gave qPB& pornographic magazine. I a s k e d ^ H if he could remember the name of the magazine. ^Bpthought the magazine's name was similar to "Bluebird" or "Blue Jay." I asked him to describe the magazine. ^Hfcsaid it appeared to be a magazine for nudists and those who subscribed to the nudist lifestyle. ADA Liegel asked if the magazine had pictures of men or pictures of women, ^ p s a i d , "It had pictures of men and women." I a s k e d ^ d where he and Father WIDERA were when WIDERA gave him this magazine. ^(Jreplied that they were inside WIDERA's red VW bus. The VW bus was parked inside the (attached) Rectory garage (located in the rear of the Rectory) and he and Father WIDERA were inside the bus. J B added that Father WIDERA would also assault him inside the parked bus. When we toured the garage area, flfl^pointed out that WIDERA would normally park the VW bus in the north parking spot inside the Rectory garage. According totflfc WIDERA would later supply other pornographic magazines to him but this occurred in WIDERA's bus and inside the rooms WIDERA would rent at the TYROLEAN TOWNE HOUSE INN (after he left ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS in June 1972). j g g | told us that later on, he would ask Father WIDERA to got pornographic magazines for him. Father WIDERA did. ^ ^ f c assumes Father WIDERA kept the pornographic magazines inside the V W bus. ? H didn't know if WIDERA kept any pornographic magazines in his bedroom inside the Rectory. ADA Liegel asked if Father WIDERA would provide other things to him or the other boys- like alcohol, cigarettes or drugs. ^Jpftold us that WIDERA would allow them to drink alcohol if other people around them had it, such as at Timber Trails camping grounds, but WIDERA did not provide it to them himself. J | B also said that WIDERA did not provide or offer cigarettes or drugs to him. ADA Liegel asked if Father WIDERA used drugs. ^ | ? s a i d no. ADA Liegel asked if Father WIDERA had been drinking alcohol before he assaulteddBBBHB^replied, "No. When he drank, he would drink heavily but he usually had not been drinking and did not smell like alcohol when he did it (assaulted < added that usually the assaults occurred early in the morning. _ ispecifically recalled having sexual contact with WIDERA inside WIDERA's VW bus the day before WIDERA left for his new assignment in Port Washington WI. Archdiocese of Milwaukee documents show a transfer date of June 1972. The bus was parked inside the garage at the Rectory, located at H H H S B ^ H s a ^ m a t WIDERA were alone. WIDERA started the contact by tickling 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis , WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 14 ADOM023602 West Allis Police Department Incident Report him as usual. WIDERA took off his clothes and had ? p remove his own clothes. WIDERA fondled ogmPpenis and buttocks and had ^Pffondle his (WIDERA's) penis as well. WIDERA became more aggressive: he grabbedHB^legs and held them together. WIDERA inserted his penis b e t w e e n ^ m thighs and moved his penis back and forth until he ejaculated. ADA Liegel and I attempted to narrow additional incidents of the assaults to a more specific time or date by holiday, birthday, and political, musical, literary, building/ construction, school, sports and television references/ events. flHHwas unable to be more specific regarding the dates because he was so young and the assaults occurred on a regular basis. ADA Liegel asked gft if< B i was assaulted by WIDERA in the Rectory after WIDERA left (was re-assigned to Port Washington). ^ J ^ a i d no. INCIDENTS THAT OCCURRED IN THE CHURCH ^pointed out the enclosed passageway that led from the Rectory to the Church. ^ W s a i d the only thing that had changed in that hallway that he could pick out was that he did not remember there being locking door from the Rectory to the passageway, at the time WIDERA was assigned there was either a glass door or no door at all. We walked through the enclosed passage way (north). The first room we encountered was the Sacristy (The Sacristy is located behind the altar. This is the room where the chalice, hosts and Priest's vestments are kept.) There was a door to the adjoining room. *JP>>told us this adjoining room is where the altar boys used to dress and undress for mass. The Sacristy was rectangular in shape. There were stained glass windows along the (east) outer wall and there was a large kitchen-island type counter in the middle of the room. This counter had a sink and cupboards for storage. There were two main closets along the west wall of the Sacristy. The first closet has a standard door on it. The hinges on this door were on the left side; when opened, the door would swing to the left. This is the closet where the chalice is kept. The closet just to therightof that one (when facing west) had two sliding doors. This is the closet where the Priest's mass vestments were and still are stored. i told us the Sacristy was room in which Father WIDERA had sexually molested him for the first time. It occurred after the early morning mass.<^(frhad removed his alter boy garments. (Father WIDERA) did not assault him while^JPiwas wearing those garments.) Father WIDERA tickled^ and then reached down and fondled ^g^^genitals through his clothing. The only thing he said to1 when he did that was 'Whoopsey!' WIDERA said it in a joking manner; WIDERA apologized t o f ^ L after he did that. % ^ had earlier said," It was like he was looking for my input- how I would take it. There was not much of a response from me so he tried to smooth things over. It was like he was trying to see to what extent he could go." ADA Liegel asked J ^ if he had witnessed Father WIDERA abusing anyone else in the Sacristy after mass. ?U>>nodded and replied, ^ B B B W B B B B B ^ a n d J ^ B B B B B B M B M I s a i d that he saw WTDERA f o n d l e ^ H M H H H genitals in the Sacristy after mass. 4 B E estimated that when he served as an alter boy, he was sexually abused by WIDERA in the Sacristy after the mass about 1/3 of the time. I asked if the doors were opened or closed when this occurred. ?B(told m e that the doors: one from the passageway to the Sacristy and the other, from the alter boy's room to the hall on the north side of the church would be open. Father WIDERA would normally open the door to the closet where the chalice was kept and this door would block the view in case anyone walked into the passageway. 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302~8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 15 ADOM023603 West Allis Police Department Incident Report We walked through the room used by the altar boys as Jft^told us the assaults did not occur in this room. There are two doors that lead to the altar area of the church: one doorfromthe north hallway as well as another doorfromthe passageway. INCIDENTS THAT OCCURRED IN THE GYMNASIUM We asked Father WEIS to open the Gymnasium building for us so we could walk through and look at it. mPkled us downstairs first. The lower level is where their lunchroom was located when^JPf attended school there. There was also a stage inside this basement area. J f l | recalled being up on that stage when he was younger, ^^remembered that he had attended school at ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS ?arish school while his parents were together. ^_^ I returned to the parish school. 1 asked what grade he was in when he returned. J^treplied, upgrade." JHtfreturned i n ( B H V | I asked oif any incidents of abuse had occurred in this basement room. 4fl&said no. We walked up the staircase to a mid level area. There was a girl's and boy's bathroom as well as phone in this area, unexplained that the bathrooms used to be locker rooms that they would use after playing games in the gym. ADA Liegel, 4 0 | ^ * walked into the boy's bathroom- the room that had been the boy's locker room when ^B^was in school. WhenjHP looked at the room, his eyes opened wide and filled with tears. I asked him what was wrong. JJ^looked down. His facial expression was a mixture of deep pain and horror. j9B> looked at me and tried to speak but couldn't. I asked JBfcif something happened in this room. "Hwodded. I asked m>what happened there. Again BMftried to speak but couldn't. His reaction to this room was far worse and it apparently was the most emotionally painful for him of any of the.places we had toured thus far. I asked him if what happened in this room was worse than the other incidents of abuse. ( K nodded and let out a sob.^(frushed past ADA Liegel to get out of the room. After a few minutes, I approached J(pagain and asked him what happened in that locker room. was crying when he told me what happened. ? P told me that he played on the school's basketball team m ^ P ^ M H H M B H H l remembers it had to be Jjgrade because he didn't make the team in ^ grade. It was winter time- before Christmas (December 1970).^J(^just had played a game and went to the locker room after the game to change clothing. Father WIDERA would normally attend the basketball games. Father WIDERA attended that game and went to the boy's locker room after it. There were other boys in the room at first. WIDERA t o l d H that he needed ^ j p t o wait around because he wanted to talk to V H M ^ f r waited in the locker room. ^ m was sitting on the bench inside the locker room, looking down and tying his shoes, when he both saw and felt Father WIDERA walk up to him. ^Bflooked up. Father WIDERA rubbed his clothed groin area across flHfr face. J ^ t o l d me that he didn't remember exactly what Father WIDERA had said to him, but^Jfc remembered that Father WIDERA wanted J T t o perform oral sex on him. <(0L was angry. " 0 B saidJBBBHBtBSUUHBBBBBBBHBBBBBBBU/KHUi * w a s rea Hy pissed off when he (WIDERA) did that. I threw the duffel bag to the ground. You would have thought it was made of glass from the way it smashed! I don't remember what I said to him but I just took off." We were standing by the stage in the main level of the gymnasium when 4 f l | revealed this to me, ^ P t o l d me that he remembers for sure that this happened inpTgrade because he had the part of ^ o H f l H f c ' i n a 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis ,WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 16 ADOM023604 West Allis Police Department Incident Report school play that was performed on the stage in the Gymnasium. The incident in the locker room happened the same school year he had that part. I asked ^ ^ h o w that incident affected thefrequencyof abuse- if it stopped after that. | 0 | told me that the abuse didn't stop; it continued in the same manner as before, ^ f ^ s a i d WIDERA never asked him to perform oral sex on him again after that. I asked ? f e if that was the only incident of abuse that happened in the Gymnasium building. Jjjfcreplied, "Yes." INCIDENTS OF SEXUAL ABUSE WITH! TYROLEAN TOWNE HOUSE INN (1970-1976) i told me that day trips normally consisted of swimming outings at the TYROLEAN TOWNE HOUSE INN (now operating as the DAYS L N N ) , H H H H H West Allis. tsaid that Father WIDERA would t a k e ^ ^ ^ a n d ^ M P ^ h e r e to go swimining. They would swim and later, (after Father WIDERA was re-assigned out of the area to Port Washington and Delevan WI parishes), Father WIDERA would rent a room there as well. JBft added, "Mostly we would just park the bus and walk in to swim. They never could really tell who was a guest and who wasn't." The sexual contact between Father WIDERA andJj(^as well as 4 H M H H f l H B K W 0 U ^ normally occur in the showers in the Men's room after swimming. Father WIDERA would initiate sexual contact by tickling J f l Q H H t sa ^>> "(WIDERA) would start by tickling me and then he would fondle my penis with his fingers. He would fondle his penis with his other hand. He would get an erection. Sometimes he would continue to fondle himself and me until he ejaculated. Other times he would just stop- like if he heard something or if someone else came in. It was a public place and he didn't want to get caught." I asked>eyes were teary and he had a hard time speaking when we looked in the sauna. He told me that Father WIDERA had fondled^dBPgenitals inside this same sauna. JHBPold me he would never forget that room, as he had never seen a sauna before that incident. J f l P thought this first incident in the sauna occurred the first year he had returned to ST MARY parish school, (when he was <^years old). The pool is in a very large, open room that is two stories high. The pool and the spa are on the lower level. There is an open staircase leading from the second level balcony that surrounds the pool down to the pool area. The entrancefromthe long hall to the pool, as well as the pool shower area, was located on the far wall opposite the staircases. This is the pool in which Father WIDERA would swim naked with the boys. INCIDENTS OF ABUSE AT WIDERA'S PARENTS' HOUSE IN SOUTH MILWAUKEE: 410 HAWTHORNE ST (January 1970- June 1972) While viewing locations,^^precalled that WIDERA would also take him to his (WIDERA's) parents' house in South Milwaukee. WIDERA would take J 0 ^ along as well and they would go to feed and take care of WIDERA's German Shepard. ^(premembers that WIDERA sexually molested him in his parents' living room. This was the only room in the house that WIDERA molested^Pfin. U n d o e s not remember how many times this happened but did recall that they only went to WIDERA'S parents' house while WIDERA was assigned to ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS; after WIDERA left, they did not go to his parents' house anymore. OTHER LOCATIONS WHERE SEXUAL CONTACT TOOK PLAI I' \\\ III (1970-1976) J j -- H -- | ^pptold me that there was what seemed to be a significant lull in contact with Father WIDERA after WIDERA was transferred to the parish in Port Washington, p a d d e d , "It may have just seemed that way though because of all the contact we had before." ^B*estimated that after he left ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS in June 1972, Fattier WIDERA had irinimal contact withfg^for 1 -2 months. 4/J} said that Father WIDERA was back in his life again, having sexual relations again, around Christmas 1972. I asked where else they had sexual contact in Milwaukee County other than the locations already named. j ^ ? t o l d me that Father WIDERA had a VW (Volkswagen) bus with drapes on the windows. Father WIDERA would have sexual contact with j^^Tin that parked bus from 1970 through 1975 or 1976. (Father WIDERA got rid of the bus and purchased a red, 1976 Ford Granada.) Jso told me that Father WIDERA would have sexual contact with him on (WIDERA's) 14' fiberglass fishing boat The boat had an outboard motor on it. flBtc,kl me that sex on that boat occurred up north though (unknown County in Northern Wisconsin). WEEKEND AND WEEK LONG TRIPS WIDERA TOOK J ^ M ^ ^ P >> ON (1970-1976) 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 20 ADOM023608 West Allis Police Department Incident Report rsaidjhat Father WIDERA t o o k U p M B m H I B H H P , on weekend as well as weeklong tops. flfl|said some of the places Father WIDERA took them to included Timber Trails (camping ground^ a cabin on the Chain O' Lakes (Vilas and/or Oneida Counties, WI), Iron Mountain-Michigan, and Sugarbush-Wisconsin. told me that on the weekend and weeklong trips they would all sleep in the same bed: Father WIDERA, ^flfcand^pfe I asked if they slept clothed or naked. ^(Preplied, "Both." The sexual contact consisted of the same acts that occurred in Father WIDERA's bedroom at the Rectory. Usually Father WIDERA would have sexual contact with the boys one at a time; however, there were occasions where Father WTDERA had a sexual contact with both boys at the same time. I asked^B^if Father WIDERA would h a v e ^ H I m D ^gg/ff genitals or buttocks during these occasions. 'SHL sa*d> "N?> he didn't have me t o u c h ^ B W - (WIDERA) would have us all in bed at the same time but usually he would have sexual contact with just me or with j u s t ^ m ^ T ^ o m e r V t f B M H M ^ would have been off doing something else. I remember on one trip I hid out and even slept in the bathroom to get away from (WTDERA)!" FATHER WD3ERA'S ARREST IN PORT WASHINGTON: OWLEDGE told me that his contact with Father WIDERA cooled down again in 1973 for a short period of time after Father WIDERA was arrested and later, convicted, of molesting a^Pyear-old boy in Port Washington. I askedflB R O W n e found out about that incident or what he knew about that incident. ^Hrecalled that Father WIDERA had taken f W ^ d ^((p'boatmg someplace. Father WIDERA dropped ^/ft and ^ f l f e off at their house and came in. Father WIDERA was talking to^HBmother when the phone rang. It was the police department and they were looking for (WIDERA) I remember being asked by a police officer if anything ever happened with me a n d " ^ m i ^ ( w i t h Father WTDERA). We^BBPand ^ D just flat out denied it" ^j^ft did not remember which police agency questioned him.) "My mom suspected something but continued to allow us to see him. (WIDERA) smoothed it over with her and we never told my mom what was really happening. My mom and Father WIDERA even went out drinking one night and she must have asked him about the rumors (of sexual abuse). My mom and (WIDERA) got really drunk Father WIDERA denied them (the rumors/ charge in Port Washington) but did tell my mom that his brother had done the same thing (sexually abused) him. 11-WEEK DRIVING TRIP WITH4 .WISCONSIN TO CALIFORNIA- PHOTOS _ ftold me about the last trip he took with Father WTDERA. fHFsaid, "In 1976,1 went with Father WIDERA for the entire summer. He told me he was being transferred to CaUfomia and asked my mother if I could drive out there with him. My mom said 'Yes.' I had just gotten my 'temps' (temporary driver's license) and Father told me that I could help drive. We left West Allis, Wisconsin around June 15th, 1976 and I was with him until the last week of August or the first week of September 1976. We drove through Michigan, Canada, Washington State (re-entered the US), Oregon and California." 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 21 ADOM023609 West Allis Police Department Incident Report f P I clarified that they departed from West Allis WI on or about June 15th 1976. They drive through Michigan and crossed the Canadian border at Sault Saint Marie. They drove through Canada a n d J H particularly recalled staying at BANFF NATIONAL PARK (OF CANADA), (Banff, Alberta Canada; ph# 403-762-1550/ fax# 403-762-1551). They re-entered the United States at an unknown border in Washington State. (WIDERA) and f ( P | d r o v e through Washington, Oregon and California until they reached Anaheim, CA. Father WIDERA purchased a plane ticket for flfcand^V flew home three days before school started. WIDERA had sexual contact withPIBHH^flHHRfthout 3 times per week during this 11-week trip. This estimate would result in total of/ around 33 sexual encounters with the thenfl^/ear-old victim. WIDERA would have p ^ h o l d his ^MWJUegs tightly together and WIDERA would insert his penis between JUMfaighs to simulate penetration, ^(feadmitted that sometimes WIDERA ejaculated on him or it got on { 0 0 ^ I asked where the sexual encounters took place. "^BHfreplied that they occurred in the car as well as hotels along the way. otold me he had photos from this trip and subsequently turned what photos he had over to me. The background scenery in the photos changed but the person photographed did not: 4 H B Every photo had f j ^ i n it in various poses. Each photo had writing on the back describing the place the photo was taken at Jpptold me that the writing was Father WIDERA's. Father WTDERA had taken all the photos and sent them toj^fafter the trip. WIDERA'S SEXUAL ABUSE OF. 5NDED BY TRANSFER TO CALIFORNIA I askedU|ifheheard from Father WIDERA after that trip. J K s a i d that Father WIDERA kept in touch wiflwBBP^moiher and called a few times but that was it. Father WIDERA sent a Christmas card photo toJH^in 1984 and that was the last timeJB^has heard from Father WIDERA. I asked ^pPwhy he thought the sexual abuse (to ^ P and P H I b y WIDERA) ended. 4 feplied, "Because he (WIDERA) was transferred to California. That's the only reason it stopped." HOW WIDERA'S SEXUAL ABUSE AFFECTED THE VICTIM'S^ LLEFE I askedPP how WIDERA's sexual abuse has affected^SHfclife.l RECALLED A SPECIFIC INCIDENT: OCCURRED 05-19-1970 ADA Chris Liegel informed me t h a t ^ U B M B U B B p h a d recalled a specific event that occurred during the time that he was being abused by Father WIDERA. fiS&said that Father WIDERA was supposed to take him swimming that day but became displeased wifWBPpprior to going so Father WIDERA cancelled their swimming trip. *P?had told me during his interview that WIDERA would refuse to take him on trips in retaliation forlBpnot allowing WTDERA to have sexual contact with him. 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis , WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 22 ADOM023610 West Allis Police Department Incident Report Lbecame angry with Father WTDERA | teaid he was (J^ears old when this occurred (1970). "He^pP^stated that he was looking for his swimming suit that he had left in the Sacristy earlier this afternoon. He was going swimming with Father WIDERA and this was verified by the Father. But (sic) for some reason they did not go and he put his swimming suit on one of the chairs and it was gone when he came back for it. The report also records, "Father WIDERA will talk to him P P P some more at a later dateandwillletu^aiov^fhecojm^ schooL''H^B5H|^HS5|9SBHSHHpH | ^ O n e of the children, << P P B P [ J E t o K i the detective that he d i d s e e S P P H Q ^ P P K there earlier. S f l P P f also knew that, "there was something about going swimming but then they didn't go." "7") c*-*/ INTERVmW: cVICTIM/WITNESS) On 05-18-2002,?^PHPHHHIi&came to the West Allis PD station to be interviewed regarding this report. DET Fabry and I interviewed him in the Conference Room. P H ^ c a m e in to speak with us out of support for ^ P P P P E decision to come forward but expressed that he was very concerned about people finding out his identity. "Pppptold us, "I was affected by his (WIDERA's) sexual abuse but I told people about it. I told my mother when I was little. She didn't even remember! I remember it so clearly because after the incident in his room I had this overwhelming need to tell someone! I was so frustrated! I also told my wife before we got married. That was about^BJyears ago." <>told us that he remembered the TYROLEAN, the van an apartment and WIDERA's parents' house in South Milwaukee. I asked^ppf what would normally happen when Father WIDERA took them to the TYROLEAN to go swimming. ^ P P said that Father WIDERA would normally take small groups on trips. When went, it was usually just them and Father WIDERA. P P P s a i d that he remembered thatl went on one trip with them somewhere up north but that was the only time WIDERA took anyone else when he tookSpfe and 4g/tk explained, "When Father WIDERA took us swimming, you would have to take your suit off. He told us to. I don't remember if he took my suit off or if he had me do it. He would be swimming around naked and we would be naked too. He would rub his genitals against us-like a dog (humping)! He did it while tickling us in the water and while playing in the water." I asked 4 P P if he knew how to swim when that happened. t f l P B sa*d no- * asked^PPHfhe was in an. area of the pool where he could stand up or if he was in water over his head."pppf told us they were in an area of the pool where he could stand up without assistance. ommented, "It was ql^Fsaid that WIDERA would rub up against him andppione at a time. an attention thing." t P P P added, "If you looked at his (WIDERA'S) 'privates,' he would stop. He (WIDERA) wanted to be the only one looking and touching." DET Fabry a s k e d ^ p p if anyone had ever walked in while this was happening. PPPrsaid yes, that people walked in a few times but they never seemed to notice what was happening. DET Fabry asked if WIDERA would have them remain naked when others were there or if he had the boys put their suits back on. ^PBfcanswered, "He had us put our suits back on." <^ppremembers going swimming more than one time but is not sure how many times he went, ^ppbadded that he was not molested every time he went. He added, "A lot of times I was just'there." C p p told us that WIDERA provided pornographic magazines toXSH'to "keep him busy" while WIDERA was assaulting^pfcin the parked VW bus and inside the hotel room(s) WIDERA rented at the TYROLEAN TOWNE HOUSE INN. The magazines showed graphic photos of nude women. WIDERA provided these magazines t o ^ p p f between January- March 1970 though May or June 1972.9pPB i V a s 1130! W. Lincoln Avenue West AUis.WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 24 ADOM023612 West Allis Police Department Incident Report only# years old when WIDERA gave him the first pornographic magazine and WTDERA consistently provided pornographic magazines to^PPfuntil June 1972, when<>must have been there.HPpptold us that they would dry off and change their clothes in the van after they finished swimming. JPBtsaid, "We were naked and changing in the van. PPfcwould be there. He (WIDERA) would start tickling us and goofing around. He would become more physical as he got aroused-he's a strong guy. He would tickle us hard under the ribs and elsewhere until he made that grunting noise. The tickling was so hard that it sometimes hurt." I asked^pBuif WTDERA ever reached into J H P P P31115 or underwear when he touched PHPfcgenitals. jpPP*said no. MEMORDSS OF THE EAGLES CLUB- NO ABUSE THERE :toldus that the only thing he remembered about THE EAGLES CLUB was, "lots of naked wrinkly men all over the place!" ^ P f t t o l d us that after being in that place, he wondered if that was "normal." fpppalso remembered the sauna because that was the first place he ever saw a room like that. JPPEsaid that WIDERA seemed to know a lot of the other men there. Pppfcomrnerited, "He seemed to be very social and active in the community. When he was with adults, you (a child) didn't exist. It was only when we were alone with him that he paid attention to us." t P K ^ s 0 noticed that WIDERA always wanted to be in control. ^ppp*explained, "If I had responded or had become the aggressor in anyway, that would have been a 'turn off for him. We were just props for his sexual gratification." fPH?also noticed that WIDERA always used things to "cover" his naked body when he molested the boys- WIDERA used water or a sheet (when in bed). He never liked it if we looked at his penis." MEMORIES OF WIDERA'S PARENTS' HOUSE IN SOUTH MILWAUKEE ?pg?said that he remembered that Father WIDERA kept "Cesar," his pet German Shepard, at his parents' house somewhere in South Milwaukee. WIDERA would take P p ? m d ^ m d o w n there to visit with his dog. f f l p said he does not have any memories of being abused by WIDERA at the house. ^Ppfc commented, "He was always more interested in 4 P P I U301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (4!4)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 25 ADOM023613 West Allis Police Department Incident Report INCIDENTS OF SEXUAL ABUSE WITI HELP OF CHRISTIANS RECTORY (1969-1972) 1ST: ST MARY said he was much younger thanpp^when Father WIDERA started abusing them so his memories were not as solid aspPPHHPPfexplained that he could remember an incident in a room but he didn't know if it was a hotel room or where Father WIDERA lived. 4Pflfrthought about it and said, 'There were a lot of his personal items in it (the room) so it must have been where he lived. WIDERA provided pornographic magazines to {oo& to "keep him busy" while WIDERA was assaultingUppn his bedroom at the Rectory, in the parked VW bus and inside the hotel room(s) WTDERA rented at the TYROLEAN TOWNE HOUSE INN. The magazines showed graphic photos of nude women. WIDERA provided these magazines to*ppfrbetween January- March 1970 though May or June 1972. ^ppggwas only^rears old when WIDERA gave him the first pornographic magazine and WIDERA consistently provided pornographic magazines to'PPpgmtil June 1972, whenJPpfcwas P i years old. ppp^xplained that Father WIDERA would take4BBttnto the bedroom and close the door. ifcwould look at the magazine while Father WIDERA spent time w i t h p p ^ n his bedroom. i told us, "I knew what was happening, that Father WIDERA was molestingPPf butJPPpand I never talked about it. I could hear WIDERA making loud grunting noises during the time that WIDERA was in the bedroom alone with P p f I askecflHP?if he was ever in the same room when Father WIDERA was assaultingPPPHpfsaid he didn't think so but did not know for sure. P P P s a i d the most horrible assault to him occurred in April, May or June of 1972 when WTDERA sexually assaultedJHBRin his bed at the Rectory.'SHPiwas ^jryears old at the time of this assault. ^PPremembers it was wanner outside (not winter). Father WIDERA had started by tickling J B B L a n d p p f is not sure it went from tickling to what happened next, flil^told us, "He (WIDERA) was in his bed. He had a sheet covering his naked body. He had me walk into the bedroom and get undressed. He had me get on top of him, facing him, so he could 'jerk off.' He held onto my body really tight and was moving me up and down, rubbing my body against his erect penis. He ejaculated- I'm sure he did. He has this annoying grunt he does when he would tickle us and got to a point when he was sexually gratified, when he ejaculated. I remember hearing that sound when Father WIDERA was in the bedroom withTpR That grunt was the same sound I heard when he ejaculated on me." I asked^PPif WIDERA had ever touched him inappropriately or molested him in the church Sacristy or in the Gymnasium, p f l ^ s a i d no. DISCLOSED INAPPROPRATTE TOUCHING BY WIDERA TO HIS MOTHER I told us that the abuse WIDERA had inflicted upon him had been tickling, touching or rubbing up until that day. ^ M said that he always felt uncomfortable when WIDERA did those things to him. P P P t o l d us, "After that incident in his room I knew things were wrong! I told my mom around the time it happened because I had this overwhelming need to tell someone! I was so frustrated! I think Father WIDERA was still at ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS when I told my mom. I never told Father WIDERA that I told my mom but somehow he just knew. As far as the trips, it didn't stop right 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis ,WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 26 ADOM023614 West Allis Police Department Incident Report away. Later I was not invited along at all! It's like my mom didn't notice or question why I was not going anymore. She didn't even remember my telling her about the abuse!" ppPfbxplained that he was hurt when he was not invited and everyone else was doing fun things or going on fun trips with WIDERA*PBP?said i* w a s a relief not to deal with WIDERA's sexual abuse b u t f P P t missed going on trips. flPRsaid that he remembered the trip more than what happened while on the trip. PPRfrold us, "I remember playing flashlight tag with the other boys. The shape of the lake. The sparks of the camp fire." admitted that there was competition among the boys at school for Father WIDERA'S attention as faras trips and activities, p^fcplaborated, "He (WIDERA) basically said, 'don't ever say anything to anybody or this would all end.' It was understood that if you didn't do what he wanted you to do, you would not be invited to go along on a trip again." RUMORS OF WIDERA'S SEXUAL ABUSE OF BOYS/ WIDERA'S REASSIGNMENT 6aid that after the incident in the Rectory, he remembered his classmates talking about why the "cool" priest, WTDERA, was leaving. P P f e said that at that time, Father SETNICAR was very old, very stuffy and gruff. None of the kids really liked him. Then this younger, nice and fun priest comes along. The kids' sentiment when they heard that Father WIDERA was leaving was, 'Svhy couldn't it be Father SETNICAR?!" One boy,^PPldoes not remember his name) came out and said that Father WIDERA had touched him inappropriately or molested him and that's why Father WIDERA had to leave. Once that got around, other students remembered that ^pB>>would go on lots of trips with Father WIDERA. The other students askedppPl if WIDERA had molested him as well. P P B publicly denied that WIDERA had molested him. Inside he wondered what would happen if he told them the truth; even his own mother didn't listen to him. HOW WIDERA'S ABUSE AFFECTED i btold us that WIDERA's introducing him to pornography was like cocaine- it became an addiction. ^acknowledged that he has an ongoing problem with his desire for pornography and he still his problems dealing with his relationship with his wife because of that. j ^ ^ also feels that everyone, including the justice system failed him. (He was not aware that the abuse at ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS had not been reported to police until P B b a m e in to report it in 2002). p B ^ s a i d that even the students knew why WTDERA had to leave the church and yet no one did anything. The church even threw a big party for WIDERA before he left for Port Washington. J H B | explained, "I'm more of a realist in that people get away with stuff. If I did what he did I would get my ass reamed! The scumbags get off. The bad people don't change and I don't see justice!" ^PPValso said that he tries to take bad experiences and find something positive about them. Because of the sexual abuse,PHI* made a conscious effort to grow up and not be like him (WIDERA). I ^ H P said, "I wanted to be happily married. I wanted tofindgood people. I wanted to be involved in my church. I feel like I have to go above and beyond to prove that I am not like him- that I am not a 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (4I4)-302-800O Fax:(414)302-8099 27 ADOM023615 West Allis Police Department Incident Report is* 3|P" molester." 9pP>told us he has worked hard to build a good reputation and greatly fears what the consequencemight be if others find out he was sexually abused as a child. INTERVIEW On 04-26-2002,1 spoke with The interview was conducted at her residence, regarding this complaint. : still won't tell told me she was shocked byPPPreport and said that] her in what way Father WIDERA abused h i m p p P P P ^ s i m p l y asked < M B B J " -- -- W i t 0 call me and speak with me about Father W I D E R A ^ ^ P B P P P P P f c w h i l e cordial, made it clear that she was speaking with me only becauseflp?asked her to do it for h i m ^ H p ^ didn't want Sked me if the abuse was sexual or physical. I told her it was sexual. told to know anymore about it. She told me that she had spoken wifoJBBBMPWBMfr andJ 4ppPPPEthatppp*told her about Father WIDERA's abuse aboutPPp^ears ago. admitted thatPPfe indicated to her there was something wrong years ago. ppHfcfrsaid, "I must have received a letter or card from Father WIDERA and told*HBk about it. 4 H & started crying really hard and told me never to mention Father WIDERA's name ever again to him. I tried to pry and find out what was wrong butpPPwouldn't tell me then." laskedl i about her situation in I *and how she met Father WIDERA. >>I had no money, no car and nowhere else to go so I movedl test Allis WI)m4 I aske< ohow she met Father WIDERA.JJPPPP^told me that she moved* CHRISTIANS parish school shortly after she moved in as it was close to home. told me, "After I enrolled them in school, I noticed this red VW bus kept circling the house. A man would get out of the bus and would come to the back door and knock. He was in regular clothes. I didn't know who he was so I didn't answer the door. He probably came over 5-6 times like that. Then one day I see the same bus pull up a n d ^ r f ^ p p p p get off the bus. The driver had 'the collar' on. I didn't know that man (in plain clothes) was a Priest until then! The kids let him in (the house) and he introduced himself to me. Father WIDERA didn't stay very long that first time." 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 28 ADOM0236I6 West Allis Police Department Incident Report I asked how frequently Father WIDERA would visit the house after she met (WIDERA). i replied, "(WIDERA) was a regular visitor u n t i l ^ ( B g g 0 | | M H ^ p g | j | ^ Sometimes he would just come over and sometimes I would invite him over. (WIDERA) spent a lot of time with me, my parents and ooBB^WTOERA^woiyddoti^ and on trips that I could not as^^BHBmHBBH^BBBMm^BBE would usually tell 4HHBBKabout the outing or trip and ask for my permission to go. ^ f l H E M P and Father WIDERA would approach me and ask if they could go." remarked, "You know, (WIDERA) always paid a lot of attention to 4 never paid any attention to^BHBI just i that J I B and J0/g///haissed their father- especially J H B H H B H N h o u g h t that if. reason B i t was vulnerable. , but he I asked about the frequency of Father WIDERA's visits to their house. <<3flRBP t o ^ m e m a t when Father WIDERA was here (at ST MARY), he would visit more than once a week. (WIDERA) would normally visit after school, at night, or on his days off. After he was transferred, (WIDERA) didn't really write or phone them to keep in contact. 3 B B t t P s a ^ > "(WIDERA) would just 'show up' and the boys would ask to go with (WTDERA)." J ^ m ^ s a i d , "When (WIDERA) was transferred (from ST MARY), no one knew why. He was well liked. The parishioners even gave him a big party before he left." I asked>asked WIDERA for the truth. WIDERA denied molesting the boy in Port Washington! aid she didn't think so ; gave me three photos she had of Father WIDERA and told me to keep them, as she didn't wanTthem back. The first photo depicts Father WIDERA, dressed in what I recognize to be the typical clothing that designates his position as a Roman Catholic Priest: black pants, black shirt with a white Roman collar. He is seated on a sofa. A development date of August 1970 appears at the bottom of the 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis ,WT 53227 Telephone: (414>302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 29 ADOM023617 West Allis Police Department Incident Report photo. ~^B^Bfe told me that the photo was taken inside^Q^BHI house in the living room. Another photo taken in that same room had a development date of March 1973. It depicts Father WIDERA seated on the sofa but WIDERA is dressed in regular clothing and is wearing sunglasses. Father WIDERA sent the last photo t o f ^ m p a f t e r he was transferred to California, It depicts WIDERA on the steps outside a building. WIDERA is dressed in mass vestments. There is writing on the photo: "St PiusMarch 1977. Coming out of the Sacristy. Buena Park, CA." expressed her concerns about having to testify in court, as she never wants to see Father ied WIDERA again. POSSIBLE ADDITIONAL VICTIMS/ WITNESSES On 05-01 - 2 0 0 2 , 4 H H E B H H H ^ o l d me that he remembered the names of three alter boys that went on trips with them and might have also been victimized by Father WTDERA. They aret^BBE In addition, two people.^flHVHHPand f, contacted ADA Chris Liegel to report Father WIDERA also abused them. STATEMENT:' On 05-05-2002, DET Fabry and I went tc possible victim or witness,! did speak with i DISCLOSURE OF ABUSE) in an attempt to make contact with a s not living at that address at this time; however, we I was looking f o i W H H H V ^ u d explained that he had done nothing wrong but may have information about a case I am working on. flHHfc'nv*tecl ^ ms*de and we spoke with her in the living room. I told j m ^ t h a t I noticed thaijjp(ghad some troubles with the church as I had seen one arrest as well as two restraining orders filed against^dfby priests or other church employees in CCAP. 4 H H f e * fu nodded and explained,*flflP> *s a verY devout person, committed to God. He gets upset when he sees priests not treating the Eucharist, the Body of Christ, properly- not giving it the respect that it is due." I for an example. ^JBfrreplied, "Like leaving (the Eucharists) out the open, them 3 asked or not handling them with c a r e . " 1 ^ H b also said that she and f/fff inlike to staynot putting to away after mass pray. fPPgets upset when other parishioners choose to stay and socialize loudly- not respecting the rights of those who wish to pray. ^ 0 H K s a ^ d ' ^ 0 i s the type that will go up to the priests or parishioners and say something to them and the priests and/ or parishioners do not always take kindly to emarks. >>asked me if I was there to investigate gjjft. I told her no, that I was investigating a priest. replied, "Well that's funny. We (she and WttB Just talked on the phone the other day about the priest that abused W/t% He (the priest) was in the news." 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis , WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8O00 Fax:(414)302-8099 30 ADOM0236I8 West Allis Police Department Incident Report >>told me that she m e r l B B t m ^ B B B W W L w a s impressed w i t h ^ f l ^ devotion to God. Their relationship progressed and they married. I asked^UBfr w h e r ^ j ^ i r s t mentioned anything about being abused by a priest. J ^ j B E t o l d m e ^ ( | t o l d her about the abuse one or two years after they met, f B H H H H H H H H l ' admitted that she was shocked about the abuse and didn't want to believe that a priest would do something like that. I askedflHflF if she remembered the name. ecause Father WIDERA would placeBJp 1on his lap and allow^BBi to steer while driving in this area of the expressway. 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 31 ADOM0236I9 West Allis Police Department Incident Report INCIDENT OF ABUSE ATI THE EAGLE'S CLUB (1970-19711 ^ P ^ t o l d us that one time Father WIDERA took him to THE EAGLE'S CLUB to go swimming. WJBm said, "He (WIDERA) took his trunks off and swam around the pool naked. Then he took my trunks off and held me close to his body. He looked at my body and hugged me." I asked if it was a loose hug or if Father had pulledfMflPbody tightly against his own. f^Breplied that Father held his flHPt body close, but not too tightly to his own b o d y . ^ ^ t o l d us that this only happened once while swimming but he remembered feeling very uncomfortable about it. ^BBftold us that he own father used to drink heavily and did awful things to their mother when he was drunk. 4HLstated, "Father (WIDERA) was nice to me. Maybe he was drinking or something when he did this." INCIDENTS WHERE WIDERA E X P O S E D ^ p g T O PORNOGRAPHY ATI MARY RECTORY & ON A DRIVING TRIP TO FLORIDA (1970-1971) I asked^BPwhat else Father WIDERA did with h i m ^ H P told me that on school breaks or weekends, Father WIDERA would a l l o w J ^ n t o his bedroom at the Rectory. f P ^ m a d e it clear that this didn't happen all the time, just every once in awhile. Father WIDERA would lie next t o J P P on the bed. I asked pP^vhat clothing Father WIDERA was wearing when he laid beside^BHHB*eplied, "The usual- black trousers and a black shirt with the Collar."|^?ptold us that Father WIDERA didn't touch him in a way that made'BHLfee] uncomfortable. said that sometimes Father WIDERA would get out some Playboy and Penthouse magazines. Father would allowPBto page through them on the bed and look at the pictures, pfl^told us that Father WIDERA would usually take his trousers off and lie on the bed next t o ^ P WIDERA would watch^plas tfKlooked at the pictures in the magazines. dJRfrthought that Father might have undressed him l ^ P down to his underwear too (when the magazines came out) but f p ^ v a s not certain. 4 ^ ^ stated, "I really didn't understand what he (WIDERA) was doing." I asked if Father WIDERA touched'him in any other way, such as tickling. 4 p | L did not remember if he wastickledor not. Itold me that for the most part, Father WIDERA was very good to him and just had occasional incidents where he did things that made^ppuncomfortable. ^Pfcsaid that father WIDERA even took him and another boy to Florida on vacation. ^BPestimated that the trip would have been taken in the summer of 1968 or 1969. ^pp'told me that was the first time he had ever been to Florida. ^H^said that Father would allow him to look at pornographic magazines at the rest stops but for the most part, Father seemed more interested in the other boy. 4 P P does not remember that boy's name or anything about him- only that the other boy was older than he EUR H H | was. HOW WIDERA'S SEXUAL ABUSE AFFECTED] I asked I I how his contact with Father WIDERA affected his life 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 32 ADOM023620 West Allis Police Department Incident Report RECORDS OF] I had contacted the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office and requested any existing documentation r e g a r d i n g ^ H P H H H H B H H P P H received 8 pages of reports under case; According to these reports provided background information about Irhad been seeing, describe aid thati as, "a quiet person and had feelings of inadequacy." was single. He CONTACT WITH I looked up the n a * n e ^ p P p ^ in the White Pages and located an entry for 11 called it and spoke with an elderly male. This male identified himself as Sonlirmed that he had treata said that he r e m e m b e r s ^ p m B i ^ H V a s being, "very negative. He did not think that he could be a success- only a failure. He would not have anything to do with reading the Bible," (when{ ^ P p y encouraged flpp0to read it for healing). I asked* made a disclosure that he had been sexually molested. expressed feelings of failure. He specifically remembered J STATEMENT On 05-05-2002, DET Fabry and I went to possible witness or victim, attempt to make contact with another answered the door. We 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 33 ADOM023621 West Allis Police Department Incident Report identified ourselves and explained that we were there to speak with him regarding Father WIDERA and a possible connection to P B P P ^ P P p M f l p P f l M P H H H P H P & i n v i t e d us inside and we spoke with him in the dining roomi^pi^PP w i piu>oil duung this interview. <> INCIDENTS OF TICKLING & ABUSE ON THE PLAYGROUND ATI HELP OF CHRISTIANS (1969-1972) ST MARY told us that he was expecting that someone would be coming over to talk to him about Father WIDERA after he heard about WIDERA's problems in California on WUWM (radio). ^ p P R commented that Father WIDERA was "the tickling priest," as Father WIDERA, "tickleo^ustabout evi obody in that (ST MARY) school." I asked if Father WIDERA tickled mostly boys or mostly girls. oeplied, "Mostly boys. He would do it on the playground. (Father WIDERA) would chase us around and grab us from behind. He would stick his hand in and tickle the area between the scrotum and the anus." I asked o H p if Father WIDERA had tickled him in that marmerJppB; said yes and estimated that Father WIDERA did this between 50-70 times to him whenJppP^asTTgrades P P DET Fabry and I explained that technically that was a sexual assault, d p p p w a s defensive and said, "Well then you have a whole school full of victims because he tickled us all that way." I asked^PPfcgif Father WIDERA ever did anything else to him or touched him in a way that made P P P p e e l uncomfortable. ^ P P K looked down and said, "No." DET Fabry toldfpBfihat he understood that perhaps Father WIDERA's touching madejpppfcfeel uncomfortable or embarrassed.^pppprreplied, "I wasn't embarrassed! That (the tickling) was like 'special attention.' No one looked down on it back then!" 4Mp?told us that technically, the contact may be classified as a sexual assault but he did not feel as though he was violated or was a victim. DENTED THAT HAD BEEN SEXUALLY ABUSED BY WIDERA had ever mentioned anything about Father WIDERA touching him I asked aid no. I told B B B p h y suspicions a b o u f l P P P B B B B B B P P M B E . or assaulting him. replied, had nothing to do with Father WEDERA. ,-^__ opinion. I asked i ad ever gone on trips with Father WIDERA. J^^BBreplied that Father WIDERA took them swimming at the TYROLEAN TOWNE HOUSE INN in West Allis once or twice. i^pPPexplained, "He would take the alter boys that worked the two early masses on Saturdays swimming." DET Fabry gave On 05-06-2002,) regarding ohis card in cast ^recalled anything else or wanted to talk to us. came into the station at my request so I could speak with him DET Fabry and I interviewed him in the Conference Room. 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-3 02-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 34 ADOM023622 West Allis Police Department Incident Report )ICLOSEDTO THAT HE WAS SEXUALLY ABUSED BY WIDERA dpftold us m a t ^ P M P P B P P ^ d i d disclose that father WIDERA had sexually molested him a few told thai festimatedthatppptold him this in early 1983, as^pi months befon at t e /as at home^PBPPBPCyest Allis). p ^ a n d f P P were was still 4 H H P H P ^ (TM) brought the subject up. PHP&aid, "I was floored when he sitting in the basement when mentioned it. I now know that /as seeing a psychiatrist at that time a n d P H f l P P P H H '. don't recall all the details of whatJdtold m e - o * guess I wasn't a good listener. I didn't want to hear it. I do know that he called Father WIDERA 'really sick.'" INCIDENT OF SEXUAL ABUSE WITHi THE SCHOOL LOT BEHIND! (Summer 1973) IN WIDERA'S VW BUS WHILE PARKED ON ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS SCHOOL I askedSpwhat happened. ^pPexplained, 4 B H B wanted to know if Father WIDERA had ever messed with me. At first I denied it and 4 p p p g?t really pissed off. After, a few minutes, I finally told him that Father WTDERA did (mess with me). He (WTDERA) didn't rape me, but he liked to tickle me. I had a run in with him (Father WIDERA) in his VW bus. It was parked on the school parking lot. I don't remember how or why I happened to be on the bus with him but I was. I was alone with him." "He tickled me and kept tickling me on the bench seats. At some point he opened his pants and his penis was out. He put my hand on his penis and held it there for about one minute. As he did this he joked, It gets bigger and falls out!' and then he joked that he was embarrassed. I was out of there the. I don't know if I walked or ran but I left the bus. Father WIDERA just disappeared after that-1 never saw him again but I avoided him too." I askedflphow4pppkiad reacted to this, ^psaid, "I told^pihat andJJpsaid it (the sexual abuse) was a lot worse with him. I was shocked because he f//f brought it up and I didn't even know that he knew about it (the sexual abuse. I thought it was just me- that I was the only one!" I askedpphow old he was at the time this assault occurred. ^ | s a i d that he waspPP^ears old. He recalled that it was summertime and his p p p H f l h H P P P F w n e n m e assault happened. (Social Security Administration Death records accessed through www.crimetime.com indicated t h a t ^ ^ M H H H H H H H H B H P i P P i b e s t estimate, based on this as well as his age, was mat this assault occurred sometime during the summer of 1973. p^would have beenpfyears old when he was assaulted. HOW WIDERA'S SEXUAL ABUSE AFFECTEI ILIFE I asked 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 35 ADOM023623 CONTACT WITH THE MILWAUKEE ARCHDIOCESE; WIDERA'S HISTORY 04/26/2002 Lt Blaskowski reporting.. I contacted Ms. Barbara Cusack ph# 769-3341 of the Milwaukee Archdiocese concerning Mr. Widera. Ms. Cusac faxed to me a copy of Widera's history in the Milwaukee Archdiocese . This history is: Born Dortmund Germany December 20,1940 St Francis Minor Seminary 1955-1960 St Francis Major Seminary 1960-1967 Ordained to Priesthood July 14,1967 Associate Pastor St Mary Help of Christians, West Allis 1969 Associate Pastor, St Mary Port Washington June 13,1972 Associate Pastor, St Andrew, Delavan, June 17,1975 Assignment outside diocese: St Pius V Parish Buena Park California (Diocese of Orange January 12,1977. Ms. Cusac indicated that their records showed that Widera was arrested and prosecuted in Port Washington, Ozaukee County and was placed on probation for three years. Their records indicated that the District Attorney had asked for a 5-year prison sentence. I contacted the Ozaukee County Clerk of Courts and they are faxing information about that case to me. Ms. Cusac also told me that in August of 1976 there was some type of allegation in Delavan concerning inappropriate contact with children but she had no further information about this. I contacted the Delavan Police Department and the officer I talked to his Captain. This Captain has been a member of that Parish for a long time and he remembered it was a rumor that was not reported to the police. He will check with his Captain to see if he remembers which families might have been involved. DET Ann PhiUippi reporting: 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis , WI 53227 Telephone: (414>3G2-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 36 ADOM023624 West Allis Police Department Incident Report I received a voice mail message from Delavan PD Captain Tim O'NEAL (ph# 262-728-6311; works 7am-3pm) regarding this file. I believe this is the Captain referenced in the above paragraph. As of 0429-2002,1 have been unable to speak with him regarding this matter. CONTACT WITH THE DIOCESE OF ORANGE (CALIFORNIA); WIDERA'S HISTORY DET Ann Phillippi reporting: On04^p^002JJcalled the DIOCESE OF ORANGE and spoke with the Director of Human Resources, fl^^^^^HPHP|egarding this case and WIDERA's background. I asked for a list of all the places Father WIDERA had been assigned to as well as the dates of assignment. MsPPPfHIHBP r 0 V ided the following list to me: o ST PRJS V CHURCH, Buena Park CA; 01-12-1977 to 04-11-1977 o ST JUSTIN MARTYR CHURCH, Anaheim CA; 04-11-1977 to 07-06-1981 (**No location noted for the time span between 07-06-1981 through 05-26-1982**) o ST EDWARD CHURCH, Dana Point, CA; 05-26-1982 to 07-01-1984 o IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY CHURCH, Santa Ana, CA: 07-01-1984 to 07-01-1985 o ST MARTIN DE PORRES CHURCH, Yorba Linda, CA; 07-01 -1985 through his removal in August 1985 REPORT BY LICENSED HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL REGARDING WIDERA SEXUALLY MOLESTING BOYS IN A POOL: 07-31-1985 I asked Ms^HMHHBBvhat prompted the Diocese to remove Father WIDERA or "defrock" him. MsflHHHHHichecked WIDERA's file and answered, "We received a report from CPS (Child Protective Services) here that there had been a swimming party with Father WIDERA and four boys in a pool on July 31st, 1985 and someone saw something inappropriate. A professional witnessed Father WIDERA sexually assaulting 4-5 boys in a pool. The caseworker,PPPP|PP|(1985 phone number of P P P P P P P , noted that the incident was reported by a licensed health care professional. Shortly after that we got a second but anonymous complaint of the same nature." I asked Ms P P B P P P P | a b o u t the relatively short assignments to parishes before being moved again. MsJPPPPPPPPadmitted that those short assignments could be classified as "definitely not the norm- very unusual." According to her, there was nothing in WIDERA's file maintained by the DIOCESE OF ORANGE to indicate why he was re-assigned so quickly. WIDERA "DEFROCKED" AND SENT TO A TREATMENT CENTER 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 37~ ADOM023625 West Allis Police Department Incident Report M s P P P P P P H s a ' d that she believes it was Bishop MCFARLAND who removed Father WIDERA from his position as a Priest. WIDERA was sent to an in-patient treatment facility in New Mexico that specialized in Priests and Ministers with sexual abuser problems. She added that the clinic WIDERA was sent to no longer exists. I asked how long WIDERA was at the clinic. P H P P P P P f r e p l i e d , "From September 1985 through April 1986." She said that when WIDERA was released, he had orders to return to the status of a layperson in the Church. I asked her what that meant. P P H H H H H r e P ^ e d that basically meant that WIDERA was no longer a Priest and could not work in the Church. I asked her what happened after WTDERA was released from the clinic. P B B H ^ H H s a ^ that there was little communication with WIDERA after that. The last notation in his file was that as of July 16, 1987, WIDERA was employed at a business called the TUSCON CONTAINER CORP. The records indicate this business is owned by one of WIDERA's relatives. flPPBPPPpold me that the Milwaukee Archdiocese never communicated to their Diocese that WIDERA had actually been convicted of the crime of sexual perversion in Wisconsin. H J ^ ^ S S ^ B said that the only information communicated by the Milwaukee Archdiocese was that WIDERA had a moral problem with ajpjjear-old boy in school and continued counseling was recommended. [told me that a person who claims to have been sexually abused by Father WIDERA just filed suit against the Diocese today in California. SIEGFRIED WIDERA'S CRIMINAL HISTORY: FBI, WISCONSIN & ARIZONA RECORDS Siegfried WIDERA's FBI record #PPPHfcontains the following entries: 1-ARRESTED OR RECEIVED 1973/07/02 AGENCY-SHERIFFS OFFICE PORT WASHINGTON AGENCY C A S E - H H i CHARGE 1-SEXUAL PERVERSION 2-ARRESTED OR RECEIVED 1989/12/20 AGENCY-SHERIFF'S OFFICE TUCSON CHARGE -CHILD MOLESTATION-F COURT-SHERIFF'S OFFICE TUCSON CHARGE-SEX OFFNS-CHILD FONDLING SENTENCENO COMPLAINT FILED WIDERA was convicted of the charge in Wisconsin and placed on probation. I attempted to locate the report or arrest record for the arrest in Tucson, AZ in 1989. I contacted the Pima County Attorney's Office (ph# 520-740-5600), the Pima County Legal Records Department (ph# 520-740-3251) as well as 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 38 ADOM023626 West Allis Police Department Incident Report the Tucson City Court- Misdemeanor Division (ph# 520-791-4581). The arrest, the case and a related civil case were recorded in the system. The criminal case was charged but was subsequently dismissed and transferred to the City Court's Misdemeanor section. The City Courts have no disposition and there are no records in existence as old records are destroyed periodically due to lack of storage space. Pima County Criminal Court information is available on line. I accessed it via www.crimetime.com and queried "widera" for all cases and located the following case information for the files/ reports that no longer exist in Tucson: 1 i :ASE I PARTY 1MBER) NAME NEXT : CITATION DOB COURT CHARGE VIOLATION NUMBER DATE AMOUNT i PPPPJ: WTDERA, SIEGFRIED 12/20/40 F. I AGENCY Mi ! 1 SO920318360 $0.00 0 13-1202 WTDERA, SIEGFRIED 12/20/40 12/20/89 13-1410 FRANCIS i DAT TERMI1 S08911273595 $2,200.00 12/27/89 | 1 8/31/92 ] i s _ j The criminal case arrest/ disposition information for WIDERA's 1989 arrest for Child Fondling (according to his FBI record) is: Tucson JP Criminal Docket CASE NUMBER DEFENDANT PROSECUTION AGENCY NBR : S08911273595 CITATION # :0 BOOKING NUM: CHARGE MJR -.13-1410 WIDERA, SIEGFRIED FRANCIS NUM CHARGES: 01 DOB : 20-Dec-1940 ETAL :1 OFF DATE :27-Nov-1989 PLEA DATE : PLEA TYPE : COMPCASE : CASE# : BADGE NUM1 : OFFNAME1 : BADGENUM2 : OFFNAME2 : VIOLATION : ATTYTYPE : PV ATTYNBR : 42892 COMP_ 20-Dec-1989 ATTYNBR 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414>302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 39 ADOM023627 West Allis Police Department Incident Report ATTYNAME : NORVTLLE, MICHAEL ATTYNAME : INTERPRETER: AFFID JUDGE: BOND AMOUNT: $2,200.00 JUDGE: CAHAN BOND PAID : $2,200.00 REPORTER: BOND TYPE :CASH CALENDARED: 12/20/89 2:00 PM BONDDISPO : EXONERATE CONTINUES :0 NEXT HEARING: IA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: VICTIM : VICTIM NOTIFIED Tickler: PH 1:30 Tickle Date : 29-Dec-l 989 Comment: DISM/FURTHER INVESTIGATION REQUIRED DOCKET Sum Issued: SumReiss : Sum Ret : Osc Iss_ : DATA ACCOUNTING Code War Issu : War Return : War Quash : FTAJTerm : Arraign. : InitApp. :22-Dec-1989 Pretrial : Sup Arr Date: SupCt# : Prelim_ : Trial : Trial Type : Amount -- TOTAL $0.00 TERM DATE : 27-Dec-1989 Termin Type: DISM BALANCE Cservice Hr: Hours Complt: Hours Due Jail Begin: Jail End : Payment due: Prob Begin: ProbEnd : l-Jan-1992 Probation Officer : $0.00 ACCOUNT BOND STATEMENT 14-May-2002 Page 1 TRANS PAY TRANS DATE CODE CLERK AMT flp^^n CASE; PARTY: WiDERA, SIEGFRIED FRANCIS Y: WIDERA, SIEC BOND: $2,200.00 RXXXXXXXX 12/20/89 C ANNE.M. RXXXXXXXX 1/02/90 O HELEN F.R. Receipt $2,200.00 Exoneration ( $2,200.00) 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 40 ADOM023628 West Allis Police Department Incident Report Bond Paid Open Bond $2,200.00 $0.00 Plaintiff: State of Arizona Defendant: WTDERA, SIEGFRIED FRANCIS ITEM DATE REF PROCEEDING ENTRY CR89-015277 DOCUMENT IMAGE INFORMATION NO IMAGES FOUND CONTACT: WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS (PROBATION/ PAROLE) On 04-30-3002,1 received a voice mail message from Agent Chris GHEWSKI (phonetic spelling, ph# 414-382-7832). She said that she located WIDERA's case records and found that the Prosecutor had recommended a prison term of 5 years. The prison term was stayed and WIDERA was placed on 3 years probation. The terms of his probation included No Contact with children in Ozaukee County, psychological therapy as well as continued professional counseling. GTJEWSKI said she did not understand a notation in the file as it indicates that WIDERA was arrested three times after he was convicted in Port Washington. The notes indicated that South Milwaukee PD, Elkhorn PD and Delavan PD also arrested WIDERA, yet none of those arrests appear on his criminal record and it is unclear in what way(s) this affected his probation. I left a message for GHEWSKI and asked her to fax me copies of records in WIDERA's file. I checked with those police departments and found none of them had any existing records for the contacts with WIDERA indicated on his probation records. I also checked with St Francis PD as WIDERA had lived there as well when he was younger. St Francis PD did not have any records still in existence from the time period that WIDERA had lived there. WIDERA'S HOME ADDRESS FROM ARIZONA DMV RECORDS: WIDERA'S RESIDENCY According to Arizona DMV records, Siegfried WIDERA's address (updated 03-25-2002) is P P P P reen Valley, AZ. His current physicals are 510,25 0#, BLN/BLU. I called Directory Assistance and found that Siegfried WTDERA's home phone number is unlisted/ unpublished. I called the Green Valley PD and was told that the Pima County Sheriffs Department, not Green Valley PD, policed WIDERA's address. I called the Pima County Sheriffs Department and spoke with Auxiliary Paul KLINE (#4315). I him if PCSO had a current phone number for Siegfried WTDERA. 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis , WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 41 ADOM023629 West Allis Police Department Incident Report There was nothing in their system so KLINE checked a telephone directory. The directorv^valid^from February 2002 through February 2003, lists WTDERA'S home phone number as ph#| AUX KLINE told me that there was another WIDERA listed in the directory: ^ K ^ H H H H ^ the WIDERA family had once resided one block awayfroma member of my family, I knew tha m i w a s Siegfried WIDERA's sister. P H H U B B H c u r r e n t l y resides atj Green Valley AZ, ph PIMA COUNTY (AZ) PROPERTY RECORDS: WIDERA'S RESIDENCY I queried the Pima County Arizona property records fwww.asr.pirua.az.us) under "widera" and received the following results: www.asrxo.pima.az.us Search WIDBVL Keyword Mode 2003 TaxYear Query> No !&??% returned 8 records! LandFCV Parcel PPPPPPH Use ImorFCV 0741 TaxPaver 512,800 5105,270 PPPPPPPI 0197 H^H^^HI 37n I^HBHB o74 $16,000 SO $347,000 $4,157,630 ? $26,000 $89,390 ^H^H^B $17,000 $119,434 IHiHHl 02 30 $13,652 $76,348 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis ,WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 42 ADOM023630 West Allis Police Department Incident Report 0820 $25,000 -o >.A < o o "" $804 0141 $30,000 ' , o o o o i:_. r $96,421 Pima County Assessor ~ 115 N. Church ~ Tucson Az. 85701 Misr.'.: - M/:#7.244,1x>'3 The last two properties are recorded with Siegfried WIDERA as the listed owner. Property parcel ^ ^ H P P P P p s a mobile home located a t p p ^ p ^ p p p T u c s o n AZ 85746. The sale/ purchase was recorded in December 1987. According to 2003 tax year information, the property is listed as owner occupied. Property parcel H H H H H R s a single-family home located in Green Valley Country Club Estates a t P P P P | H ^ H H ^ r e e n Valley AZ 85614. The purchase was recorded on 08-18-1994 and according to 2003 tax year records, it is also listed as owner occupied. I could not locate any other parcels or real estate recorded in WIDERA's in any other state; it appears that his property ownership and real residency is in the State of Arizona. Furthermore, this information indicates that Siegfried WIDERA has been a resident of the State of Arizona from 1987 to present. CONTACT WITH SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION: WIDERA'S RESIDENCY On 05-07-2002,1 spoke w i t h P | ^ ^ ^ P | Resident Special Agent in Charge of the Social Security Administration Office of Investigations (US Courthouse- room 400, 517 E Wisconsin Av, Milwaukee WI 53202; p h # ^ O S B B U H fax# H ^ ^ | ^ ^ H > r e ? a r d i r i g checking the status of Siegfried WIDERA's employment, earnings and SSA contributions. RACPPichecked Siegfried WIDERA's SSA records from 1976-2000. (Records have not been updated for 2001 as of yet.) The SSA records seem to indicate (by employer and employer location) that Siegfried WIDERA has not resided in Wisconsin since he left in 1976. SSA records list WTDERA as being "self-employed" from 1976-1983. (DIOCESE OF ORANGE records record and support that he was assigned to parishes located in the State of California during that time period.) In 1984 and 1985 the names of the parishes WIDERA was assigned to show up under employer. These parishes are also located in the State of California. 1986 lists WIDERA as being selfemployed. (DIOCESE OF ORANGE records show WIDERA was in treatment center in New Mexico until April 1986.) 1987-1990 lists TUCSON CONTAINER CORP as his employer. In 1991, his employer is listed as CALIFORNIA BOX XOMPANY (13901 S Carmenita Rd, Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670). 1992-2000 entries list TUCSON CONTAINER CORP as his employer. These SSA records, corroborated with DIOCESE OF ORANGE records, reflect that WIDERA was employed in the State of California and the State of Arizona from 1987-present and therefore, did not have or maintain real residency in the State of Wisconsm. 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis ,WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 43 West Allis Police Department Incident Report STATE O F ARIZONA CORPORATE COMMISSION INFORMATION CHECKED I QUERIED THE state of Arizona's Corporate Commission website (accessed via a link at www.crimtime.com) for information about TUCSON CONTAINER CORP. According to information on that site, the company's status is delinquent in filing it's annual report as of 11-14-2001. The last report was received on 04-18-2000. Siegfried WIDERA filed it. 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" ^ ? ! ^ * * ^ ^ ^ ' ^ c i M ' " * ? (TM) f a i " " * * ' * ' " ? m p ? f *"*** **"*** o - ' o ' >> " ^ t H " " (TM) " << << " >> ^ i ' f ^ i ^ tjSlftffi^<><<^^ wraxafcm? (UniwtMci << << & << pcrUtaf-totmfttKxpoaliauontf ^S^as^-WaP* YES Q NO^ w.snawtMEa lfa6Ct>^UW0CTWcJWUr0PljWTEtTO^ REttSED STATUTES HAVE SEEN WLEOWUM rHEABCOM* OSPWWMEMT OP REVENUE JQ4W,. atmttmtt. <*SL>_ ri^eo>^^ This corporate filing lists Siegfried WIDERA as becoming a corporate director in that company on 0101-1991 and an officer on 01-01-1992. WIDERA's SSA records also indicate he worked at his brothers other company, CALIFORNIA BOX COMPANY during 1991. That company has two locations in the Los Angeles, CA area. In addition, Siegfried WIDERA is listed in Arizona Corporate Commission records as being the Agent for WIDERA ENTERPRISES, LLC. (Incorporation date of 05-31-2000. Theserecordsindicate that WIDERA was employed in the State of Arizona and the State of California from 1987 to present. 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 46 ADOM023634 West Allis Police Department Incident Report BUSINESSCREPITTJSA REPORT ON TUCSON CONATINER CORP (LISTS WIDERA) On 05-08-2002,1 purchased a business credit report on the TUCSON CONTAINER CORP from www.businesscreditusa.com. This site tends to offer the most up-to-date information on businesses as this is the information potential creditors/ suppliers may use to determine the risk for opening/ extending lines of credit to a business. I found that the company is privately owned and that the company even owns the building where they are located. 2002 sales projections were listed, indicating that the report had been recently updated. The Management Directory lists "Mr Sieg WIDERA" as the President of TUCSON CONTAINER CORP. This report also supports that WTDERA is still a resident of the State of Arizona as he is listed as the president of a company located there. The report (relevant information) is as follows: Tucson Container Corp Search For a Different Business Printer-Friendly Version 6601 S Palo Verde Rd Tucson, AZ 85706-5044 Main Phone: (520)7463171 Fax: (520)741-0962 County: Pima Metro Area: Tucson, AZ Internet: N/A AB1#: 16-871-5688 Years in Database: 10+ Building: Owned Sq. Footage: 40,000+ Public Co.: Privately Owned Location: independent Parent Company: None Stock Symbol: None Click To Enlarge Credit Score Key ?*c*U<>0-8<< BtftS-89 f>7<<.7>> B 80*4 C 70.74 t ^Institution ,, ^ ,, M w>>arw Corporate Trends Year # of Employees Sales Volume 2002 2001 2000 50-99 50-99 50-99 $20-50 MILLION $50-100 MILLION $50-100 MILLION Management Directory Name Title 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis ,WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 47 ADOM023635 West Allis Police Department Incident Report Mr. Sieg Widera PRESIDENT FINANCE EXECUTIVE SALES EXECUTIVE PURCHASING AGENT Company Description The Primary Line of Business for Tucson Container Corp is CORRUGATED & SOLID FIBER BOXES (MFRS) (2653-01). Other Lines of Business SIC Code Brand/Specialty BOXES-PAPER (MANUFACTURERS) 2652-01 PACKAGING MATERIALS5113-08 WHOLESALE Public Record Information Date State County Type Amount Case Number None on file Headlines Source Date Article None on File SIEGFRIED WIDERA'S NAME LISTED IN TUCSON CONTAINER CORP'S VOICE MAIL I did a reverse search on TUCSON CONTAINER CORP's business address, "6601 S Palo Verde Rd, Tucson AZ" and found that there are three businesses operating out of that address: TUCSON CONTAINER CORP (ph# 520-746-3171), KTNO FOAM and KINO PACKAGING CO (ph#520-7463172). According to business records in Arizona, TUCSON CONATINER CORP is the owner of KINO FOAM and KINO PACKAGING CO. On 05-12-2002,1 called both numbers listed for that address/ those businesses. Siegfried WIDERA's name is listed in the voice mail directory for all three businesses/ corporations. I called those numbers again on 05-24-2002 and found that Siegfried WIDERA's name had been removed from the voice mail directory. 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 ADOM023636 West Allis Police Department Incident Report CONTACT WITH ANAHEIM (CA) POLICE DEPARTMENT: OPEN CASE I queried the name "Siegfried WIDERA" in an Internet search engine and found a news article that appeared in The Sacramento Bee. The news article that appeared on 04-11-2002 detailed an abuse complaintfiledwith the Anaheim, CA Police Department. I looked that department up on the Internet and found a contact phone number for SGT Chris KIELSCH (ph# 714-765-1958/ fax# 714-765-1549). I spoke with SGT KIESLCH and she confirmed that their department is investigating a sexual abuse complaintfiledon 04-06-2002. DET Lisa HUNTER is the case detective (ph# 714-765-1964). Their case number is i I received a copy of this report on 04-25-2002- a day after I had interviewed our complainant/ victim, ( ^ o o o o m ^ A j i a h e i m ' s report details that Father WIDERA tickling the child victim initiated the sexual contact with that victim. According to their report, Father WIDERA proceeded to stick his hand down thefrontof the victim's pants and underwear. Father WIDERA grabbed, tickled and squeezed the f f year-old victim's genitals. This is consistent with m i H H H H H f e s t a t e n i e n t . Anaheim's victim was molested after Father WIDERA conducted the funeral mass for t h e f l H b 1 The assault occurred in the victim's home after i DET Lisa Hunter later told me that the Orange County Sheriffs Department also has an open case against WIDERA that they are investigating. CONTACT WITH THE BREA (CA) POLICE DEPARTMENT: OPEN CASE H H H H H H H H H p f t n e Diocese of Orange told me that she gave my name and phone number to DET Kortney DODD of the City of Brea (CA) Police Department as they also were investigating a sexual abuse complaint against Father WIDERA; case # 0 g H H ? I spoke with DET Kortney DODD on 04-30-2002. DET DODD asked me for details about the West Allis case and they were provided to her. DET DODD faxed me a copy of their report. L i k e ^ | H H B V c a s e > theMHcase details that Father WIDERA established contact with the mother of the victims (two brothers) after she was divorced. He would swim with the victims. He would show up at dinnertime and stay to tuck the boys into their beds. One night one of the victims disclosed to his mother that Father WIDERA had been touching his penis and buttocks when Father WIDERA tucked them into bed. The mother spoke with her other son and that son confirmed that Father WIDERA had been sexually assaulting him in the same manner. The victim brothers in the Brea incident were agesp and J^ryears old at the time the assaults occurred. REVIEW: OZAUKEE COUNTY DA FILE FROM WIDERA'S 1973 CONVICTION ADA Chris Liegel obtained the Ozaukee County DA file from WIDERA's 1973 arrest/ conviction. The file contained the copies of the victims' and witnesses' statements, as well as copies of the Ozaukee County Sheriffs Department report and the Port Washington PD report. 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis ,WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 49 ADOM023637 West Allis Police Department Incident Report The report and statements document an ongoing pattern of sexual abuse of young boys by WIDERA in his bedroom at the Rectory, in his van and on trips. WIDERA had^ 0 f l H M m ^ ( the time of this incident) perform oral sex on WIDERA while WIDERA was driving. The other boysji FwitnesserJHmPput his mouth over WIDERA'S p e n i s . ^ m m H H H ^ S 0 admitted to having placed his mouth on WIDERA's penis either on the way there or on the way back to Port Washington. The witness statements also detail how WIDERA took them swimming and would have them remove their swimtoanksatthe TYROLEAN TOWNE HOUSE INN on HWY100 (S 108th St). vere all victims of abuse. ^ o M even detailed how WITJBRA would pull the van over to the said of the road and have all the boys fondle his genitals as well as each other's genitals. ^ o o ^ H H H H H V ^ d n i i t t e d that her son had told her that he did not like Father WIDERA because WIDERA had tickled him between his legs. MHILiisclosed this to his mother in the fall of 1972. His mother thought that i^MBEfnust have been mistaKen and if it did occur, she dismissed it as having occu^ed accidentally^jjJBBBBBBBBBstated, "Ididn 't know him but I thought it was all right going places with WIDERA), because he was a Priest." OZSO DET Robert HACKBARTH, OZSO SGT Eugene TROMBLEY and Port Washington PD officer Allan KLOPP obtained a verbal confession from WIDERA regarding abuse incidents in Ozaukee and Milwaukee counties. The report states, "After talking to Father WIDERA for a considerable length of time he did admit that he had played with a number of boys privates and that he had allowed at least two or three boys to commit an act of sodomy on him.. He states that this was to help them in their curiosity about sex. These acts of sodomy were committed in Ozaukee County on STH 84, on STH 57 and possibly on CTHK. The acts of playing with the boys privates occurred in these same areas and also in the City of Port Washington and Sheboygan County as well as Milwaukee County. " INTERVIEW: ALLAN KLOPP (WITNESS/ RETIRED OFFICER- WIDERA'S 1973 CONFESSION) On 05-20-2002,1 made contact with Allan KLOPP. He confirmed that he had been employed by the Port Washington Police Department and was now retired. I explained the reason I was calling and asked him what he remembered about that 1973 confession made by WIDERA. Allan told me, "He (WIDERA) was drinking the boys urine! He would pull off on the side of the road and have the boys get out of the vehicle. He would have the boys drop their pants and urinate into his mouth! That's what I remember! I had to leave the interview 2 or 3 times because I wanted to punch his so badly! He honestly believed that this touching and molestation and urination crap caused no harm to the boys! I would lay it out for him, explain it to him. He looked me in the eyes and basically told me it was no big deal. For him this stuff was like saying, 'I breathe air' or 'I eat food.' He felt that these acts of molesting young boys were normal and natural." 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West AHis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 50 ADOM023638 West Allis Police Department Incident Report Allan told me that he tried to find out what happened with WIDERA's case. The only answer he received from the Ozaukee County DA's office (in the 1970's) was that it was turned over to the Church to handle. INTERVIEW: EUGENE TROMBLEY (WITNESS/ RETIRED SERGEANT: DOCUMENTED WIDERA'S 1973 CONFESSION) I spoke with Eugene TROMBLEY regarding Siegfried WIDERA. Eugene TROMBLEY was unable to recall any events by WIDERA'S name alone. He told me that he would need to see the reports or his memo book to jog his memory. I will attempt to interview him, in-person, at a later date. INTERVIEW: ROBERT HACKBARTH (WTTNESS/ RETIRED DETECTIVE THAT OBTAINED WIDERA'S 1973 CONFESSION) On 06-05-2002,1 went to Robert HACKBARTH's home and interviewed him regarding the 1973 incident Prior to showing him the reports, Robert recalled the arrest clearly and told me that the head priest at St Mary's in Port Washington and some of the parishioners tried to have Robert and the other officers that worked on the WIDERA casefiredfromtheir jobs. Robert said the parents of some of the boys and the head priest made life as uncomfortable as they could for the law enforcement officers involved. Robert commented that fllHHflBHK father still won't talk to him when they see each other. Robert told m e , 4 0 B H M B H R a victim's) father went to the church. He was very angry with us for questioning his son. He accused us of picking on this Priest and hisson. He complained that we were 'dealing out of hand'- not giving people their rights. That of course was all boloney. The head priest at St Mary's must have spoken with the DA, James LaPointe about it. The Sheriff at that time, Artie Helm, told me that these people were disgusted with our investigation and wanted us fired. Our Sheriff supported us though." I asked how the incident was discovered. Robert told me that Port Washington PD Sergeant Sellmeier saw WIDERA's VW van weaving on the highway and thought he had a drunk driver. SGT Sellmeier pulled the van over and when he made contact with the occupants, Sellmeier noticed that WIDERA's and another boy's pants were down. SGT Sellmeier asked them what was going on. Robert said, "I was called in to work because he (SGT Sellmeier) thought there was an act of sexual perversion going on." I asked what WIDERA's demeanor was during the interview. Robert said that it was like, "I'll tell you what you want to know and let's get this over with." Robert noted mat WTDERA acted sorrowful for what he had done. On the same token, WIDERA's victims had said that, "Father (WIDERA) always said that God permits this (acts of sexual abuse/ perversion). This is part of growing up and being in the Christian life." 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 51 ADOM023639 West Allis Police Department Incident Report WIDERA admitted during the interview that he had one of the boys urinate into his (WIDERA's) mouth and WIDERA drank the boy's urine. WIDERA also admitted that this abusing was one of the problems in his life and said that he had these same problems before. Robert told me that was when they (OZSO) found out about WIDERA's history at ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS in West Allis. Robert told me that the victims said that there was never any drugs or alcohol involved when these incidents occurred- that Father WIDERA did these things because he (WIDERA) wanted to do them. I asked Robert why, when so many acts and contacts were admitted to, why WIDERA was only charged with one count of sexual perversion. Richard explained, "The Church hired a defense attorney (Attorney Charles F POLIDORI; 1973 address of 2922 W Forest Home Av; ph# 672-0100) for WIDERA." Robert supposed that the lone charge was due to an arrangement between the DA at that time (La Pointe) and WIDERA's defense attorney. The ADA that handled the case was Joseph MCCORMACK. ADA MCCORMACK recommended prison but the head priest at St Mary's wanted WTDERA to just get probation- no prison. The Judge went with what the Church wanted. Robert told me that ADA MCCORMACK was really upset about this case. Robert told me that former ADA MCCORMACK is now the Judge for Branch 1 in Ozaukee County. Robert asked where his report was that he had written. I replied that the contents in the file were everything we received. Robert told me that his report was not in the file and should have been. He also wondered where WIDERA's pre-sentence investigation report was as that report might be helpful. Robert said that he would check his daybooks and see if he could find more information about that investigation. CASE DISPOSITION ADA Chris Liegel of the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office reviewed this case on 05-012002. On 05-22-2002, ADA Liegel issued 4 counts of Enticing a Child for Immoral Purposes and 5 counts of Indecent Behavior with a Child against Siegfried WIDERA. These charges were from statutes that existed from 1969-1975. Each charge is a felony with a 10-year prison penalty. Judge Donald signed a felony warrant for WIDERA authorizing extradition from anywhere in the United States. WTDERA was booked on WAPD sheet #SHBBfor these charges. 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 52 ADOM023640 West Allis Police Department Incident Report INTERVIEW: WI) ICTIM/ OFFENSE OCCURRED IN WALWORTH COUNTY, Detective Steven Fabry reports... Sj On May 20* 20021 met w i t h ^ H H M M the West Allis Police Department. ^ H f had arranged to come to our station through ADA Liegel. I was informed that^Bfehad been molested by WIDERA while he was attending ST. Andrews School located in the City of Delevan. The interview o f ^ H H M H U v a s conducted in the Sensitivity room located within the West Allis Police Department.^^^ states that he is currently^P^ears of age, single, and works fori" currently lives m f f l H H H B M H I states that at the time of the assault he lived in Delevan with his family, which consisted ofl S tates that his family was a member of the St. Andrews Catholic Church, and both he and his o attended school there as well. j J ^ E t a t e s that his family lived at o o H H H H M H H B B V J B B B ^ B B M B M W B B B B B H B > b e ^ e v e s that he was in ^ U l g r a d e when WIDERA first arrived at their church. ^/? believed that it was in the springtime or early summer months. 4 M B states that everyone liked father WIDERA. ^Bfcstates that WIDERA acted like a regular guy, and not just a priest. f^Bltates that WIDERA was known as the ticklmg father, because he liked to tickle all the kids. Jfftr stated that WIDERA remained very popular with all the kids while he at their church. ^ H f c remembers how all the boys looked forward to being chosen to be an alter boy for WIDERA when he was giving the mass. ^ 0 | also remembered how disappointed the boys that did not get picked would be^I asked 0 0 1 if he remembered WIDERA taking any of the boys on trips away from the school. <^J0remembers that there were trips taken by WIDERA and some of the boys, but he never personally went on any of them. I next asked^Bfeo describe how WIDERA wouldticklehim. ^ J ^ t a t e d that it was "creepy" the way he would do it, and that he would never forget how WIDERA would tickle them. ^(pPstated that WIDERA would usually grab a child from behind. WIDERA would put his arms completely around the child, and pull them into his own body.fl(HP states that WIDERA always seemed to tower over the children when he began tickling them. ^ m ^ t a t e s that after WIDERA had his arms around the child he would begin tickling them on the ribs. WIDERA would continueticklinghim along his ribs and under his arms. *^(JJremembers that WIDERA would move his hand very rapidly all over his body. J JH! states that WIDERA would tickle him so hard that it began to hurt. I asked^BB^fhe remembered WIDERA ever touching his penis or buttock while being tickled, and stated yes.40fe states that WIDERA would tickle his entire body, and his hands did sometimes touch his genitals. J H * also added that he did not remember WIDERA leaving bis hands on his genitals for any length of time. I askedT(pif he observed WIDERA tickling other children in the manner, and he stated yes. I asked^BP if WTDERA tickled other children in the same manner that he was tickled and again stated yes. I asked^BBif could recall if WIDERA ever had an erection while he wasticklinghim. oJBktated that on several occasions he was aware that WIDERA had an erection, ^ ^ t a t e s that he could feel WIDERA's erection when WIDERA would tower over him and pull him against his own body while tickling him. 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, Wl 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 53 ADOM023641 West Allis Police Department Incident Report ^__: also remembered that WE) ERA would whisper in his ear while tickling him. ^H^could not remember what WIDERA was whispering to him, but states that he always remembered his thick German accent. flflpkstates that he believes that he was molested by WIDERA in May or June of 1976.4IK states that the incident occurred shortly before WIDERA left ST. Andrews Church, and movei believes that he was i n f l B p grade at the time of the assault. " m i states on the day of the assault WIDERA had come over to their, house for a visit. S H states that he remembers the day, because it was a "big deal" when WIDERA would come over to any of kid's houses. 4J^ states that on this day WIDERA come into the house, and sat in their living room. remembers that his mother was home at the time. ^ P f remembers that he and his brother begged WIDERA to stay for supper. ^HHfremembers that he and his brother were both very happy when WIDERA agreed to stay for supper. states that WIDERA began tickling his brother and himself while they were in the living room. Iremembers sitting WIDERA's lap while he was being tickled. flflfralso remembers that his mother was in the house between the kitchen and the living room while making supper. After a period of time'flfli remembered his father coming homefromwork. Shortly after his father returned home> states that he did not understand why his father would act this way, and he was very upset that he could be with WIDERA any longer. ostates that it was not until 1995 when his father H M M B t h a t h e learned what had really happened on that day. Wt/t states that his father told him the following: ^ ? states that while they were being tickled by WIDERA his motherTMBfr observed WIDERA touching both his and brother 4HBfe penis. j H p : was told that^BBfcwas shocked at what she saw, and did not believe her eyes until she saw it happen several times, When^BHi father arrived homefromwork^BBBI told what she had seen. istates that his father also witnesses WIDERA touching the children on their genitals. At this point ^father ordered the children into the kitchen, m f c f a t h e r told him that when he and his brother were in the kitchen he ordered WIDERA out of his house, and threatened to beat him if he ever had contact with his children ever again. ooBPstated that he recalls that after this incident WIDERA never tickled him or his brother ever again. 4 p t recalls how hurt he felt at the time that WIDERA would not pay any attention to either him or his brother anymore. 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis , WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 54 ADOM023642 West Allis Police Department Incident Report I askedlff//^ how this incident has impacted on his life now that he is an adult. o o L s t a t e s t n a t n e has given up on religion because of what has happened. V B a d d e d that he also has a problem with trust, when it comes to personal relationships. ^ j j P added that he is still single, and feels that his inability to trust has affected his ability to maintain a marriage. INTERVIEW:! Detective Steven Fabry reports... On June 10th 20021 spoke with U M B M i by telephone. < f (VICTIM/ OFFENSE OCCURRED IN 7) On 05-30-2002,1 interviewed! ^ ^ I H H H H I had contacted ADA Liegel to report that Father WIDERA had exposed himself to her while she was a pupil at St Mary's parish school in Port Washington WL otold me that WIDERA was only at St Mary's in Port Washington during herl Idescribed herself as being very shy at that time. Padded, "I never said a lot and I never told anyone what happened. It's like he could sense I wouldn't." WIDERA'S CONDUCT INSIDE THE SCHOOL flHP told me that she is not sure what, if anything, WIDERA taught at the school. She did recall he always seemed to be around in the lunchroom, in the gymnasium and on the playgroundflBBBfrsaid 11301 W Lincoln Avenue West Alhs , WI 53227 Telephone. (414)-302-8000 Fax (414)302-8099 57 ADOM023645 West Allis Police Department Incident Report that the Pastor, Father LAST, was very old at that time. WIDERA was much younger and would always be on the playground, playing with the children. m p | told me that WIDERA would walk up to her while she was waiting in line for lunch. He would get infrontof her and pinch her breasts. ^JJBftlescribed WIDERA's manner as being "sneaky" as he would position himself in a way where it would be difficult for anyone..to really see what he was doing. ^BHPsaid he did this to other girls as well but she did not recall their namesPBK^did not know how many times WIDERA did this to her as it happened so often. f H H ? s a w WIDERA hug the schoolboys and grab their "behinds" (buttocks) while on the playground and in the lunchroom. 'HHfcadded m a t Father WIDERA especially liked the boys. ^ B witnessed WIDERA pull the legs of the boys' shorts up in gym class, exposing the boys' thigh area up to their groin. ksaid that WIDERA would call individual altar boys out of class on a weekly basis on the pretense that they had to prepare for a funeral the next day. The rest of the class was envious of the altar boys, as they wanted to get out of class on a frequent basis too. j g g g g told me that, 'He (WIDERA) went for the shy, heavy set boys, not the athletic types...the type that sat on the side and watched everyone else. The ones that were altar boys." ^^Bfeaidthat WIDERA would go on outings and/ or call the following boys of class a lot: V f l H f l B H H f l f l P B f l H Q B H f l H f l f l B B f l l f l t t H H B 9 M B H l & >> INCIDENT WHERE WIDERA EXPOSED HIMSELF TO ^ o ^ n r r r n ? P i ? . i ) Q N THE SCHOOL GROUNDS IN THE TUNNEL BETWEEN THE CONVENT AND THE SCHOOL told me that there was a tunnel that went from the Convent to the school. One day in the winter (November-March) of 1972-73,tH(Pwas alone, walking past the opening to the tunnel when Father WIDERA called her into it. 4 H H k did as she was told and walked into the secluded stair area of the tunnel. WIDERA opened his pants and exposed his genitals t o ? | b WIDERA asked fgg/f"Wmt to see something?" as he exposed Mmself.JBHBfrecalled that WIDERA's penis was not erect. I asked vhat happened next-^BBK told me that she ran awayfromhim. I asked if there were any other incidents like that. flflB^aid no but proceeded to tell me about an incident that bothered her. It occurred in the church confessional. ^ | H i w a s m ^ n e t 0 S? t 0 confession. When it was her turn she walked up to the confessional and opened the curtain to take her seat. ^flHBf relayed, "He (WIDERA) was already in the confessional but not on his side! He was on my side! He was wearing his black pants, black shirt and the collar. He said 'Hello' and had his hand on his belt like he was going to take down his pants. I backed out of there and told my teacher that I didn't feel well." KNOWLEDGE AS TO WHY WIDERA HAD TO LEAVE ST MARY'S I asked ^ B | if she knew for sure why WIDERA had to leave St Mary's. 4 0 H p said she didn't know for sure but heard it was because WIDERA had attacked a boy in Wabadonia (phonetic) Park. added, "We heard that he took a boy up there and did something bad to him." I asked^BH> if she remembers hearing about WIDERA's 1973 arrest. her parents might have hidden that information from her. said no but told me that 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-3 02-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 58 ADOM023646 West Allis Police Department Incident Report HOW WIDERA'S SEXUAL CONTACT AFFECTED1 FLIFE I asked f H ^ f she wanted to pursue criminal charges against WIDERA in Ozaukee County.; told me she did. I advised her that ADA Liegel would forward a copy of the report with her statement in it to the Ozaukee County DA's Office for possible charges. -*v ^ ) INTERVIEW:! WI: SUMMER 1971) (VICTIM/ OCCURRED IN WASHINGTON COUNTY On 05-30-2002,1 interviewed i s/ia phone. MKhadi contacted ADA Liegel to report that jQ^had she had some information about Father WIDERA. I called A. called^J^to find out what information she had and she disclosed to me that, "He (Father WIDERA) grabbed my boob and asked me if they were real!' INCIDENT THAT OCCURRED AT AN UNKNOWN MOTEL IN WEST BEND WI <^p|told me that she wasM|years old and i n ^ J grade when this happened. Father WIDERA took a group of boys and girls to a motel somewhere in West Bend WItogo swinimmg.^BBcould not recall any of the other kid's names except fori "~ remembered them because she had a crush o n ^ p f k t the time.^J^cannot recall the name of the motel, only that it was somewhere in West Bend. The hotel had an outdoor pool. Father WIDERA was in the pool with the group. ^ J p t o l d me, "Father WIDERA was trying to teach us how to swim. I wore a swimming suit with built in cups. I hated that suit but wore it anyway just so I could go. While in the pool, Father WIDERA grabbed my left breast and held it. He asked me if they were real! It was only one time but I was stunned that he did this! After that I completely stayed away from him and never told anyone until now." OWLEDGE AS TO WHY WIDERA HAD TO LEAVE ST MARY H.O.C. I asked^Pif she knew why WIDERA had to leave ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS parish, fgg told me that in 1972 or 1973, Father WIDERA had pulled down flMMBHHi pants. ^ M > tftf|| dad had confronted Father WIDERA about that and WIDERA was transferred ngntaround the time that happened. 4 0 1 said she does not know for sure if this was the reason WIDERA had to leave, but the two incidents seemed to occur at about the same time. 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis ,WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 59 ADOM023647 West Allis Police Department Incident Report HOW WIDERA'S SEXUAL CONTACT AFFECTEI M l told me that she no longer looks at Priests as being someone special4HP'said, "They're just human beings. ..not revered anymore." J B a l s o said that although she just had one incident, that the fact a Priest did this to her "hurts her." INTERVIEW:! [(WITNESS/ WIDERA'S NON-RESIDENT STATUS^ PET Fabry and I spoke w i m H 8 H H H H B B a t her residence in Milwaukee. H a n d her husband, H i n a dremainedfriendswith WIDERA and kept in contact with him after he left ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS in 1972. WIDERA has visited with them at their home whenever he returned to Wisconsin, hi addition, the B S B S S S ^ " 1 ^ ^ ? o n e o n vacations with WIDERA. H ? t o l d me that WIDERA has consistently kept in contact with her via phone, letters/ cards and in-person since he left ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS parish. BHBtold us that WIDERA returned to Wisconsta in 1986 for the purpose of assisting with officiating her son's wedding ceremony at ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS. I asked H H w h e r e WTDERA was living at the time of her son's wedding. ^ o r e p l i e d that WIDERA was living in Tucson, Arizona. m | added that WIDERA has lived in Arizona since he left the Priesthood. m | a i d that WIDERA had confided in her that he never wanted to be a Priest but his mother wanted one of her sons to enter the Priesthood. H s a i d that WIDERA became a Priest to please his mother. He drank a lot of alcohol and had a voracious appetite when it came to food. When WIDERA visited in 1986, he told^JHthat he was having problems and needed prayers! He asked ^ g n o t to say anything to anyone about that. I asked] |if she knew the true reason WIDERA left ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTAINS parish in 1972. IHHthought it was just normal rotation as he had been there for 3 or 4years. | B t o l d us that WIDERA did not get along at all with Father SETNICAR (now deceased). H i admitted that one of her friends has a son who is now a police officer. Back then, that son told his mother that Father WIDERA had tried to pull his swim trunks down in the pool. The boy added that he managed to get away before WIDERA did anything to him. H H ^ i d not understand why her friend did not do anything about what her son had told her then- why her friend didn't call the police. <^Hhad spoken with this friend after the WIDERA charges were on TV on 05-24-2002.) I asked B H i W n e r e WIDERA would stay when he visited in Wisconsin. | | | | | t o l d me mat WIDERA usually would stay with his S]^LJBBBBM while he was here visiting but would also stay with his brother,HB| especially a f t e M M g n o v e d to Arizona. WIDERA would usually rent a vehicle or would use one offlHHcarc while he was here visiting. I asked about WIDERA's family, o o t o l d me that WIDERA's b r o m e r B H B W M B B B I s t i l l lives in Brookfield WI. H H H m o v e d to Tucson in 2000 and WIDERA's brother.HB lives in California. I asked H i f she knew where WIDERA's father and mother are buried. H f h u s b a n d , I retrieved a funeral card they received alBHHSHBH^Hfli funeral. The funeral was 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 60 ADOM023648 West Allis Police Department Incident Report conducted by MOLTHEN-BELL & SONS FUNERAL HOME. It did not list a place of burial; however, jelieves that WIDERA's parents are buried in a cemetery in South Milwaukee WI. I asked ^ o w h o the housekeeper at the Rectorywas when WIDERA was assigned to ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTAINS. o o t o l d me that M r s 0 | | was there and she was very elderly at that time. Mrs o o o i s now deceased. I told o o t h a t I knew that she had served as the secretary for the parish school. o o admitted she had but not at the time WIDERA was assigned to the parish. As the school closed in 1993 or 1994,1 asked her what became of all the records and school pictures, o o b e l i e v e s that the school documents and photos are in the custody of o o h a s not heard from WIDERA since Christmas 2001. He had been invited and was planning to attend her daughter's wedding in August 2002 before he was charged, ^ o t o l d me she had written to him after his name appeared in the paper (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) last months but has not received a response. I gave ^ o m y card and asked her to call me if she did hear from WIDERA. INTERVIEW: KFORMER BUSINESS P * VTFiFV ^ F MM i [IN TUCSON CONTAINER CORP; WIDERA'S NON-RESIDENT STATUS) [had contacted the Pima County Sheriffs Department Fugitive Task force with information about WIDERA. PCSO Detective ALMADOVA had given m e H H information so I could speak with him. [told me that he suspected that WIDERA went to Florida to visit with his parents as WIDERA's parent owned a condominium in the Clearwater, PL area. ^ ^ ^ J w a s not aware that WIDERA's parents were deceased. H H told me that o o o o o o o o o u s e d to be bis business partner in TUCSON CONTAINER CORP until m ^ ^ ^ H forced him out of the business. o o o now operates a company that competes with TUCSON CONTAINER CORP for business. [told me t h a t B B B m j H h a d given him the job of training Siegfried WIDERA after Siegfried "was 'let go' or 'booted out' of the treatment center in Albuquerque NM" in 1987. o o o o d e s c r i b e d Siegfried as "kind of slow- not quick on the job." o o o o u r t h e r described Siegfried WIDERA as "an alcoholic" and told me that WIDERA was into prescription drugs.JHMHHrecalled that WIDERA was living in a trailer in a rough part of Tucson called Drexel H e i g h t s J ^ H ^ s a w a box in that trailer. The box was filled with prescription drugs in other people's names. o o o commented, "Like Mabel and other names that were obviously not his!" WIDERA toldHHHthat, "his friends in Orange County gave the medications to him." H H H a l s o noticed a box filled with new but cheap stuffed animals, "like the kind you get in that machmegame with the 'claw.'" o o o asked WIDERA why he had a box of stuffed animals in the trailer. WIDERA replied that he liked to give them o u t . B B made Siegfried move out of the trailer and get a place in Green Valley AZ. According t o S ^ ^ ^ v h e n Siegfried arrived in Tucson in 1986, "he looked like a biker, like Howard Hughes: long hairH>eard, leather jacket and dirty nails. The first time he was in the business he was drunk and passed out in^BHoffice!" o o o told o o o o that he w a n t e d ^ m ^ t o straighten his brother, Siegfried, out. ^ ^ ^ K a i d that Siegfried WIDERA had poor hygiene- the guy had to be told to 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 61 ADOM023649 West Allis Police Department Incident Report batheand brush his teeth. Furthermore, WIDERA would wear $1,000 suits that simply did not fit him. o i m i e s c r i b e d WIDERA's manner of dress as "Salvation Army-like." o o o t o l d me that "Sieg" explained that the elderly women in his parish would give him their husband's clothes when they cleaned their husband's closets or when their husbands passed away, o o o [ a i d that "Sieg" would get really nervous about going shopping as he just doesn't want to spend money. o o o t o l d me that Siegfried WIDERA is a millionaire and that his father and b r o t h e r , | U ^ H H H WIDERA, had tunneled money to Siegfried, o o o d e s c r i b e d Siegfried WIDERA as, "Cheap! Cheap! Cheap! Refuses to spend money but will gladly eat at other's expense!" o o o w o u l d see Siegfried driving different fancy cars and asked about it. Siegfried told him that "his friends" just let him use thencars and give him the keys to their homes for his use in their absence. o o o [ d e s c r i b e d WIDERA's manner of speaking as "being like a woman. He would say things like 'Oh my heavens!' or 'Oh dear!'" o o o R e m e m b e r e d an incident where he and Siegfried took a client out to dinner. Siegfried drank a lot of wine. A pretty woman walked past and the client a n d H ^ ^ Q made comments about her body. Siegfried's comment to the group about the woman was that, "she has the butt of a 13 year old boy." The client a n d B ^ | | l o o k e d at each other and dismissed Siegfried's comment as being the result of his drunken state, o o o r e c a l l e d that Tucson PD had arrested Siegfried WIDERA in 1989 for molesting a child. He did not remember the details of the case- only that the case was dismissed. Q ^ ^ g s a i d that after that arrest and the news now, Siegfried's comment during dinner took on a whole new meaning. o o o o l d me that WIDERA told him that their father, Otto WIDERA, had been a Nazi and had worked on their space program, o o o s a i d that the WIDERA family has always covered for Siegfried in the past and he does not believe that will change now. The WIDERAs have family in Germany. They also own a cottage in Big Bear/ Moon Lake CA. When o o g ^ a s still involved with the business, Siegfried had liked to travel to destinations in California. [ has three c M l d r e n : B H H I i ! i ^ ^ ^ ^ H H H H H H S 9 H B I H ^ P n c pud that John's kids would boss Siegfried around and he would cower to them. said that Siegfried will do whatever the family tells him to do and that H "has always protected him (Siegfried)." o ^ ^ o a u t i o n e d me that Siegfried might become suicidal. o o o sa id that prior to Siegfried's arrest in 1989, Siegfried had made statements like, "The walls are closing in on him and he might have to 'pull the plug."'gfljgg5aid that as far as he knows, Siegfried WIDERA has not attempted suicide in the past. INTERVIEW: 1 (OFFENDER'S BROTHER) On 05-26-2002, Brookfield Police Officer Wolff and I made contact with flHHHHH|| and his wife,BHBB at their home, o o t o l d me that he has no idea where Siegmecunightbe^^Band ^ ^ ^ o w e r e very upset about the media coverage and said their J M M H M B f c v a s devastated by the news as he admired his uncle. They resented that they had to learn about all this through media reports. 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 62 ADOM023650 West Allis Police Department Incident Report I askedMBtf he knew the real reason his brother was transferred from ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS, o o a i d that Siegfried told him it was because he (Siegfried) was too popular and that Father SETNICAR did not like him. o o went on to say that he and his wife never knew that Siegfried had problems like this before or that Siegfried WIDERA had been laissiazed (commonly referred to as "defrocked"). Siegfried had told them that he didn't want to be a Priest anymore and that he chose to leave. o o s a i d that he and his wife have notheard from Siegfried since he abruptly retired last month. M B confirmed w a t H H S B S S H S ( B f i B ^ Siegfried's sisterHalled them two days ago. o o o s a i d this was because she o o ? had a heart condition and that o J g j u s t wanted to see how she was doing. I left my card with them and asked them to call me if they heard from Siegfried. On 05-30-2002, o ( o WIDERA left a message on my voice mail. He told me that he left my name and phone number with people he thought Siegfried WIDERA might c a l l . Q ^ Q said that so far he had not heard from Siegfried. UPDATE FROM PIMA COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT FUGITIVE SOUAD: 05-28-2002 On 05-28-2002, Detective Sam ALMADOVA of the Pima County Sheriffs Department Fugitive squad (ph# 520-741-4844/ pager# 520-878-4449) called and gave me the information their unit had developed on Siegfried WIDERA. y H H H | H H ( b u s i n e s s P h # B S B ? 9 K h o m e P h # B H H H R ' WIDERA's travel agent, caue^orepartffit WIDERA haaT>ookeafu!ruise through neragency^She had his cruise information, credit card number and cell phone number. ^ B B S H S B B B ^ S ^ o m e p h # ^ ^ ^ B S H B ^ a d called to report that WIDERA might have gone to Clearwater, Florida to spend time with his parents. INTERVIEW; 1 (BOOKED CRUISE/ WIDERA FLED TO FLORIDA) On 05-28-20021 called and spoke w ^ B S f i f i S B S S S 1 ^ 3 " ^ Siegfried WIDERA's travel arranged through her agency, o o o t o l d me, '^nApriRjTecalled before 9 am. He wanted to go on a cruise right away. He was a very strange individual! I booked a two-week cruise for him. He never had cruised before. He kept going out to his car during the time I was dealing with him. He would go out, open the trunk of his car and kept making phone calls on his cell phone from his trunk!" Said she saw the news reports and remembered Siegfried WIDERA's name because it was so I told me that WIDERA left Arizona on 04-24-2002 and drove to Florida. WIDERA's [ called o o o [ a n d asked about the parking situation at the pier. o o o /as concerned about the parking because Siegfried was not sure whether he should drive his Lincoln to Florida or take his van. 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414>302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 63 West Allis Police Department Incident Report ttold me that Siegfried WIDERA booked a cruise of the Eastern Caribbean and a cruise of the Western Caribbean on Holland America Cruise Lines. The booking number for the cruise is # o o o He paid for the trip with a VISA credit card ? ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H 1 expires 01/2003. The credit card was in his name (not a business account). The cruise departed Fort Lauderdale on 05-03-2002 and arrived back in Fort Lauderdale on 05-21-2002. WEDERA also purchased CSA travel insurance (1-800-645-5926) for his trip. The policy number is o o o o o o The policy was for trip cancellation but did not include life insurance. WIDERA g a v e B H R H H U B h i s cell phone number, p h # | B B J ^ B | a s a contact number. o o o k n o w s that this is indeed WIDERA's cell phone number as he called her once during his drive from Arizona to Florida to check and see where he had to pick up the documents for his trip. ^ ^ B Q explained that since WIDERA booked the trip "at the last minute" mat there was no way to send the documents to him; he had to pick them up at the pier the cruise ship departed from in Fort Lauderdale, FL.) CONTACT WITH HOLLAND AMERICA CRUISE LINE: WIDERA DISEMBARKED IN US On 05-28-2002,1 calledandspotewn&SpHHHHHHg (supervisor at the "help" desk)fromHolland America Cruise Lines. [ j ^ g ? g g ^ ? ^ g c o n i i r m e d that Siegfried WIDERA had been a passenger for cruises on the Eastern and WestemCanbDean during that time period. I ^ ^ M H H H ^ H H B B ^ WIDERA had disembarked on any of the islands where he did not get back on the shipT^^^Hchecked the records and said that according to the information they have, WIDERA completed both cruises and disembarked in Fort Lauderdale, FL. I later spoke withJHH^HHBBUI Legal Assistant with the Holland America Legal Department (206o o o o f fax# o o o o o o I asked her about the accuracy of their records regarding passengers leaving the ship andre^oardmg the ship at ports of call, ^ ^ o o o o o t o l d me their records are extremely accurate, as all passengers must be accounted for before the ship will depart a port of call. She double checked the records and confirmed that WIDERA completed the cruises and disembarked in the US. isent me a copy of WIDERA's travel statement and charges on the HS MAASDAM. The bill was paid for with what appears to be the same credit card WIDERA used to pay for the cruises. VEHICLES REGISTERED TO WIDERA IN ARIZONA (TWO TIED TO WARRANT) As o o o o o o o (the travel agent), had mentioned WIDERA drove to Florida, I updated the warrant information by linking the plate and VIN numbers of the two possible vehicles (the Lincoln and the van) he drove to the warrant entered by Milwaukee County Sheriffs Department. WIDERA has the following vehicles listed to him in Arizona: 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 64 ADOM023652 West Allis Police Department Incident Report 2000 CHEV S10 12PU, AZplate# 2000 LINC EXC 4DSD, AZ plat(C) 1999 CHEV SV1 VN, AZ plated 2001 CHEV IMP 4DSD, AZ plate#[_ to him and TUCSON CONTAINER O 2002 GEM E825 NEV, AZ plate#| IN# 1GCCS1952YK267197 IN# ILNHM81W0YY843844 **WARRANT VIN# 1GBFG15R5V1053107 **WARRANT _ VIN# 2G1WF55K719154589 > Vehicle is listed at the company's address VIN#5 ASAG2749YF008381 CONTACT WITH THE US DEPARTMENT OF STATE fWIDERA'S PASSPORT STATUS) On 05-24-2002, The US Department of State sent a written reply as well as a copy of WIDERA'S latest issued on June 23,2000. application for a passport. WIDERAsJatestpa^ort,|^^ WIDERA listed his address at flHHHHHBi Green Valley AZ as his home address. He listed the phone number of TUCSON CONTAINER CORP o H H B H H f a s **** w o r k P h o n e oun*<302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 67 ADOM023655 West Allis Police Department Incident Report remembered sitting in the kitchen there but could not recall why they went there or what else occurred, o o " t o l d me that WIDERA's mother was "an old German lady." Conversations between WIDERA and his mother were normally conducted in German and t h e r e f o r e ^ U did not know what was said. } told me that Father WIDERA had wanted to take him on a trip to Florida one summer but 1 dad said no right away. At the time o o w a s disappointed that he could not go and did not understand what his father said no. To the best ( ^ o o o l knowledge, his father never indicated or stated if he suspected WIDERA of any inappropriate conduct. o o o a i d that it was common knowledge amongst the parishioners that WIDERA left ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS when he molested a boy. o o does not recall who that boy was. o o r e f u s e d to provide the names of hisfriendswho were molested stating that if his friends wanted to come forward they would already have done so. EVIDENCE; HAS FORMAL PHOTOS OF WIDERA WITH ALTAR BOYS & SCHOOL PHOTOS told me that he still has his school and class photos from the time WIDERA was assigned to ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS. * o o said he even had one photo depicting WIDERA with all the altar b o y s . 4 ^ p told me that he would look for those photos and would be willing to allow me to use or copy them for this file. INTERVIEW: l(VICTIM: ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS)! On 06-17-2002 ! I^c^ i witiiipBOBBBB|| in the Sensitivity Room at the West Allis Police Department, o o o o o o o h a d contacted ADA Chris Liegel regarding this file and told ADA Liegel that he had been molested by WIDERA as well. << was very forthright _ his manner^ He told me that he had attended ST j .._ in :MARYHELP> h a d clipped and photocopied several news articles from unknown sources and attached them to this letter. Some of the information in the news articles, such as the year that WIDERA had been assigned to that parish and the amounts of monetary settlements paid to victims of abuse had been highlighted or underlined. The i n f o r m a t i o n ^ j m ^ l ^ l provided regarding the abuse was very general in nature and did not contain any details or specific events, o o o o o o d i d include a copy of a class photo from that parish schoolfromm ^ M | H school year with him and o o o ^ ^ o g in it. From the l a n g u a g e ^ J j ^ J B ^ H u s e d and the references made/ included, it appeared that o o o P ^ / a s more interested in soUciting an attorney to represent his interests in a potential lawsuit than reporting a crime. J f l H H H f l H ^ e n t copies of this letter to four attorneys, the ACLU and Howard Eisenberg, Dean of Marquette University Law School and chairman of the Archbishop's Special Commission (studying the issue of sexual abuse by priests). INTERVIEW: (OFFENDER'S SISTER/ FLEEING TO AVOID ARREST* On 06-12-2002 at about 1:30 pm CDT, I spoke with Siegfried WJDERA' s sister, | regarding Siegfried. The call was placed from my extension, 414-302-8076 to TUCSON CONTAINER CORP. This call was recorded and Lieutenant Fujinaka provMeda copy of the conversation on audiotape. This audiotape was placed on WAPD property 4 B H H admitted |told me, "I heard from him (Siegfried WIDERA) this morning (06-12-2002). that she spoke with Siegfried via telephone but claimed she had no idea as to where he is. admitted that Siegfried is aware of the felony charges against him in Wisconsin and the fact there is a warrant for his arrest, o o o w e n t on to say/lhave pleaded with him to turn himself in! I told him he is hurting himself and hurting your family." o o o c o m m e n t e d that Siegfried's, "nmning (from the arrest warrant/ charges), the instability, is no way to Uve." Siegfried has thus far refused to turn himself in and indicated his intention to keep fleeing to avoid arrest and prosecution. 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis ,WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 71 West Allis Police Department Incident Report On 06-19-2002,1 spoke with HHHBttHHBB again. She told me that she has not seen or heard from Siegfried since the day she last spoke with me (06-12-2002). o o o t o l d me that she would call me when she hearsfromSiegfried again. SUBPOENA: CELLCO PARTNERSHIP DBA VERIZON WIRELESS (WIDERA'S MOBILE PHONE RECORDS) On 06-12-2002, ADA Dave Feiss assisted me in drafting a subpo^aandattacbjnent for Siegfried WIDERA'S Verizon Wireless mobile phone, account phone# ^ ^ ^ ^ H | | T h e subpoena was directed to CELLCO PARTNERSHIP DBA VERIZON WIRELESS, Custodian of Records, 51 Chubb Way, Branchburg NJ 08876. The subpoena drafted on 06-12-2002 requested subscriber information, incoming and outgoing phone calls to that numberfromApril 11th 2002 through June 12,h 2002, the locations those calls were placed and/ or received, cell site activation and the dates and times of the calls. We repeatedly attempted to fax this subpoena to the designated subpoena fax lines, 908-203-5878 and 908-203-5876, with negative results. I also attempted to call the court order and subpoena information / help line at 908-429-3885 but I was unable to speak with a person. On 06-17-2002, ADA Feiss assisted me in re-drafting another subpoena for the same information for the period from April 11th 2002 through June 17th 2002. We again attempted to fax it to the designated subpoena lines with negative results. I contacted Verizon Wireless employee Charles ARIOO at 973656-7779, as he had assisted me earlier. He told me that he would accept my subpoena via his fax at 973-656-7789 and would forward it tothe Custodian of Records via company mail. The subpoena was successfully sent to Charles ARICO on 06-17-2002. SUBPOENA: FIRST USA BANK (WIDERA'S VISA CREDIT CARD RECORDS) On 06-12-2002, ADA Dave Feiss assisted me in drafting a subpoaia^d^ttadmient for Siegfried WIDERA's First USA Bank records for his VISA account o o o o o o o o This subpoena was directed to FIRST USA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Legal Processing, 800 Brooksedge Blvd. OH1 -0503, Westerville OH 43081. The subpoena was faxed to Judy BERRY-STOCK at fax# 614-7767191 on 06-12-2002 (voice phone# 614-776-7190/ alternate is Paul HALL voice ph# 614-776-7189). Judy BERRY-STOCK sent infomiatiOTjia^toWest Allis PD to fulfill the subpoena. This records response, First USA Bank file S B H H ^ H H B S L included all expenditures and the places where they occurred that were posted to WIDERA's account from 03-08-2002 through 06-13-2002. WIDERA also changed the billing address on this account so the bills would be sent to bis sister's | I ^ B B B H H B H H $ a d d r e s s : ^ U S S m Q g [ } r e e n Valley AZ 85614. This address change occurred after he fled the State of Arizona. The most recent transaction occurred on 06-10-2002 at 4:55 pm at a gas station in Portland, Texas (near Corpus Christi). 11301W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414>302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 72 ADOM023660 West Allis Police Department Incident Report On 06-17-2002, ADA Feiss assisted me in drafting a second subpoena directed to FIRST USA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for WIDERA's VISA account records from 06-10-2002 through 06-172002. This subpoena also specified ongoing monitoring of the location of any transactions that occur in the future until notice is received that such information is no longer needed. Judy BERRY-STOCK checked the account for activity on 06-18-2002 and 06-19-2002. There has been no activity on this account since that transaction in Portland, Texas on 06-10-2002. She will continue to monitor this account and will call if there is any new activity. CONTACT: BUCCANEER RESORT HOTEL- MARATHON, FLORIDA (CONFIRMATION AS TO WHICH VEHICLE WIDERA IS DRIVING THROUGH REGISTRATION RECORDS) WIDERA's VISA credit card records show that he stayed at the Buccaneer Resort Hotel in Marathon, Florida. This expense posted to his VISA account on May 24,2002. I checked an atlas and found that Marathon, Florida is located in the Florida Keys. I queried "Buccaneer Marathon Florida" in an Internet search engine with negative results. I then queried "Florida Keys" and found a site for hotel and motel lodging in the Florida Keys: www.flkevslodging.org. The Buccaneer Resort Hotel was listed and I was able to obtain their phone number from that listing (ph# 1-800-843-1799). I contacted personnel at the Buccaneer Resort and explained the situation. Registration personnel pulled the record that had WIDERA's vehicle information listed on it. The manager I spoke with,"Rick", told me that WIDERA listed his vehicle as a Lincoln, Arizona plate < o o o o Rick told me that they take their guest's word as to the vehicle make and plate as hotel personnel do not visually confirm that information. TTY SENT THROUGH TCSS FOR TEXAS, NEW MEXICO & ARIZONA TO LOOK FOR WIDERA DET Fabry and I examined WIDERA's VISA expenditures from 04-11-2002 through 06-10-2002. From this, a pattern of travel appeared through the places where the expenditures occurred. From the postings dated 06-03-2002 through 06-10-2002, it appears that WIDERA is traveling west, back towards Tucson Arizona, traveling virtually the same route he took east when he fled Arizona. As of 06-10-2002 at 4:55 pm, WIDERA was at a gas station located in Portland, Texas. This city is just north of Corpus Christi, Texas, and is southeast of San Antonio, Texas. If WIDERA were heading west toward Tucson, his projected route would be 1-37 north to San Antonio and then 1-10 west to Tucson. DET Fabry and I also noticed that WIDERA tends to stay at small motels and inexpensive chain hotels. SGT Ferry sent out an Attempt to Locate through TSCC for all law enforcement agencies located along that route in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis , WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 73 ADOM023661 West Allis Police Department Incident Report WIDERA'S CREDIT CARD ACTIVITY CEASED: 06-10-2002 Deputy Doug Bachert and I continued to check WIDERA's credit card activity but found that WIDERA ceased using the known credit card he hadfrequentlyused. This cessation occurred just after the TTY was sent out to all law enforcement agencies along his predicted route. As of 09-01-2002, WIDERA still has not used that credit card and it carries a credit balance in excess of $500. VEHICLE WTOERA OWNED TIED TO THE WARRANT/ PROBLEM IN THAT SOME OF THE VEHICLES WERE RETITLED DAYS AFTER WARRANT LINK The vehicle that WIDERA had used to andfromFlorida, a 2000 LINC EXC 4DSD, AZ p l a t e # ^ m ;WIDEK^ rtN# ILNHM81W0YY843844, had been tied to the warrant in June 2002. The van' owned, a 1999 CHEV SVl VN, AZ platc#HBBBH>> 7 IN# 1GBFG15R5V1053107, was also tied to the warrant in early June as this was the other vehicle his sister mentioned her brother Siegfried might take, depending upon the parking situation in Fort Lauderdale. That way, if an officer ran the plate of VIN# of either vehicle, the warrant for WIDERA would be listed. DUSM Bachert and I kept monitoring the listed ownerslupjmdplate numbers of WIDERA's other vehicles as well: a 2000 CHEVS1012PU, AZ plate#BBBBJVIN# 1GCCS1952YK267197, a 2001 CHEV IMP 4DSD, AZ p l a t e # B B H H | VIN# 2G1WF55K719154589 (Vehicle is listed to him and TUCSON CONTAINER CORF at the company's address) and a g ^ ^ ^ g g i g g , AZ plate# flN#5ASAG2749YF008381. I ran the plates and VIN#'s for these vehicles on 08-17-2002 and found that the Chevrolet S10 pick up truck, VLN/Z1GCCS1952YK267197 had been retitled on 07-09-2002. o o o o o o o o o w a s now the listed owner of the pick up truck. New plates had also been issued for this vehicle through the State of Arizona: plate #115 JKS. As this was the only vehicle that had been retitled and had new plates, we felt this might be the vehicle Siegfried WIDERA might be using. On 08-20-2002, the Milwaukee County Sheriffs Department updated WIDERA's warrant with this new plate number. On 10-10-20021 re-ran this VTN# and found that it had been re-titled again on 08-26-2002.. .just six days after the new plate had been tied to the warrant for WIDERA This time TUSCON CONTAINER CORP was now the listed owner and new plates had again been assigned through Arizona: H U H I This plate was added to WIDERA's warrant on 10-18-2002. On 08-20-2002, the Milwaukee County Sheriffs Department received a $H (delayed hit) when they entered the plates issued t o H H H I | | | B | f o r this truck: H ^ ^ | U S Customs Service in West Nogales had queried that plate at 5:25 pm on 08-19-2002 as it crossed the border. I contacted US Customs tofindout why the vehicle plate had been queried. I found out that the vehicle plate was recorded crossing the border at an unmanned station (a routine practice) and that they had no other information. In January 2003, DUSM Bachert received a tip that vehicles had been exchanged in El Paso, Texas. Someone had provided a 2000 Buick 4DR, VIN# 2G4WS52J7Y1207665 to Siegfried WIDERA. This vehicle listed to the WEST TEXAS CONTAINER CORP, a company mat is owned by Siegfried WIDERA's b r o t h e r S I ^ I ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ I It had Texas plate o o o o s s i g n e d to it. This plate and 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414}-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 74 ADOM023662 West Allis Police Department Incident Report VTN# were added to WIDERA's warrant on 01-27-2003. This was the vehicle found on the lot on the Vista Dorada Hotel lot in Mazatlan, Mexico on 05-25-2003. The car Siegfried had used to drive to andfromFlorida still listed to him in Arizona but had, in fact, been re-titled in the State of Texas on 08-15-2002. The vehicle was re-titled with the new listed owner as being WEST TEXAS CONTAINER CORP. It was assigned Texas plate o o o o This plate was also tied to the WJDERA's warrant on 10-18-2002. VERIZON TELEPHONE RECORDS RETURNED DUSM Bachert and I received telephone records subpoenaed. The account holder for the phone number Siegfried WIDERA had provided to the travel agent that booked his cruises was an employee of TUSCON CONTAINER CORP named Andrew MONFRED. The phone was obtained through a corporate account. Phone numbers were searched and the US Marshals Service interviewed the listed account holders. The phone records were not of any use in our attempts to locate Siegfried WIDERA. INTERVIEW WITH ATHEROFVICTTM) I spoke with i sclosure of abuse, oofconfirmed.that o o o t o l d him about the abuse s they were watching a news story about WIDERA being recently charged in Wisconsin. /as very bothered by this and still isfriendswith the priest that WIDERA replaced at ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS- Father VOJTIK. o o c o n f i r m e d that he had spoken with Father VOJTIK about Father WIDERA. Father VOJTIK told him^gg/ggg^^lrdt personnel within the ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE had warned him that WIDERA had a "problem with young boys" and "had to be watched" when WTDERA was transferred to ST ANDREW'S. jwas very bothered by the fact that his son had been molested and that the Archdiocese knew about WIDERA's problem and kept moving him. ^ I H B H B b w r o t e a letter to the Archdiocese and this was how they contacted I asked J ( p i f he thought Father VOJTIK would be open to talking to me about this. Thought he would and gave me Father VOJTIK's phone number 31301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 75 West Allis Police Department Incident Report INTERVIEW WITH FATHER JAMES VOJTIK fSERVED WITH WIDERA AT ST ANDREWS PARISH IN DELEVAN. WD I interviewed Father James P VOJTIK, (M/W; , Belgium WI 53004; ph# following information from Father VOJTIK: ST MARY'S LAKE CHURCH, | ^ via phone on 06-26-2002. I received the "I arrived in '75 at ST ANDERWS- June or July. He (WIDERA) was already there. At some point the Pastor told me that he (WIDERA) was getting psychiatric help or counseling and that, he (WIDERA) 'had trouble with boys.' (WIDERA) was supposed to be monitored while here (at ST ANDREWS). I supposed the Pastor was monitoring him. I didn't know. I remember going to a Brewers game via bus with him and a group of kids. On the way home, I saw him rolling around on the floor with some of them. He was tickling them (boys) and they were tickling him. I did not think it was appropriate behavior and reported it to the Pastor (Eugene HENKE- now deceased). As far as how others viewed him, (WIDERA) was tremendously well-liked and was adept at most sports. He was indefatigable! Lots of activities and always on the go." I asked why WIDERA had to leave ST ANDREWS. Father VOJTIK explained: " I was leaving ST ANDREWS for a new appointment. On the day I was leaving, two ladies, H H Jgfgjjjj^and o o o o rushed into the Rectory after morning mass. They were very upset and very shaken by what they saw. They had attended morning mass and they witnessed Father WIDERA performing a sex act in the Sacristy with two boys. They came in and told me that they had 'seen him in the act' with a young server and saw him with a young child. The ladies were shaken up and crying. The procedure back then was you tell the Pastor and the Pastor took care of it. This time I called the Priest Personnel Board or the Chancellery directly to report what had happened. I don't remember which but it was one of them. I left the parish that afternoon and WIDERA left the parish that next day; the Diocese moved him almost immediately! I'm not sure what happened but I think there was something that he could not serve in a priestly capacity in Milwaukee. I don't know if (WIDERA) was confronted. I believe they passed that off on the Pastor. I don't know if I told the Pastor or not. I did tell the Executive of the Priest Board, Father John WELLBAUER (no longer serving as a priest) and I think I also told Father Bob SAMPON." I asked Father VOJTTK if he remembered what date this incident occurred on. Father VOJTIK told me that he was not sure but believes it occurred on August 22,1976. INTERVIEW WITH TNESS TO INCIDENT IN 1976) On 07-11-2002,1 spoke w i t r g Q B B 0 | ^ ^ K known a s ^ ^ ^ ^ B in her home in Delevan. I told her I wanted to know about Father WIDERA and said that I heard that she might have witnessed an incident. o o o H nodded and said, "We were in the church saying prayers after morning mass. We heard noises comhxgfromthe Sacristy. We had heard rumors about (WIDERA) before and we knew that something 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis , WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 76 ADOM023664 West Allis Police Department Incident Report was going on. (WIDERA) sounded like he was roughing them (the altar boys who had just served mass with WIDERA) up. We could hear the two boys crying out, very matter of fact, 'No! Stop it!' We knew the boys and knew what he was doing to them in there. We went totiieRectory and told Father VOJTIK what was going on." INTERVIEW WITH ITNESS TO INCIDENT IN 1976^ in her home in Delevan regarding the incident she On 07-12-2002,1 spoke with witnessed in 1976. o o p l a y e d the following information: "I was afriendof t h e H B B H H B B H ^ H B H B H H S h e t o l d m e t h a t F a t h e r WIDERA would have young boys come over to the Rectory and ring the doorbell. Father HENKE got very upset and would 'shoo' them away. o o H H w o u l d get angry with Father HENKE for this, not realizing what /rmmosebo' Father WIDERA was doing wit Doys. One day after morning mass, I was in the church and I heard the altar boys 'squealing.' There was a lot of commotion in the Sacristy... something wrong in there. I told someone... I don't remember who I told. Within days (WIDERA) was gonefromthe parish." SUBPOENA TO ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE FOR RECORDS REGARDING SIEGFRIED WIDERA ADA Liegel had requested WJDERA's recordsfromthe ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE. On May 13,2002, the ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE voluntarily turned over 56 pages of documents pertaining to Siegfried WIDERA. None of those documents mentioned the 1976 incident reported directly to the Archdiocese by Father VOJTIK. ADA Liegel contacted Matthew FLYNN, the attorney retained bytiieACRCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE, to inform him that he (ADA Liegel) believed there were documents that had not been turned over. AttomeyFlynn said the Archdiocese would not turn over treatment documentation or other documentation without a subpoena as the information in those documents may be privileged. On 07-11-2002, ADA Liegel drafted a Subpoena Duces Tecum for any information, including, without exception, all information in the custody and control of the ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE whether or not such information may be considered secret or confidential pursuant to Roman Catholic Canon Law. Milwaukee County Judicial Court Commissioner Barry Slagle signed the subpoena and it was delivered to QUARLES & BRADY LLP/ Attorney Matthew FLYNN. 11301 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis , WI 53227 Telephone: (414>-302-8000 Fax: (414)302-8099 77 ADOM023665 West Allis Police Department Incident Report MOTION FOR A PROTECTIVE ORDER TO PREVENT THE RELEASE OF WIDERA'S TREATMENT RECORDS AND OTHER RECORDS In a letter dated 07-26-2002, Attorney David MUTH (QUARLES & BRADY) provided notice that as counsel for the ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE, he had filed a Notice of Motion and Motion for a Protective Order to prevent having to produce certain documents "on the grounds that they are protected from disclosure." The motion was to be heard at a future time and date. It did not occur, as WIDERA was not taken into custody. DOCUMENTS TURNED OVER UPON SUBPOENA A packetfromQUARLES & BRADY was hand delivered to the West Allis Police Department. The packet contained all the documents the ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE was willing to turn over in response to the subpoena. The packet contained to following groups of documents: o o o o o o Priest Ombudsman File- marked "Confidential" Clergy Personnel/ Personnel Board/ Vicar for Clergy Chancery/ Archive files St Michael Priest's Fund Archived Files Siegfried WIDERA's file from ST FRANCIS SEMINARY Project Benjamin Files The documents provided background information about WIDERA's scholastic and family history, interests and assignments. The documents also reveal in detail the reasons and the efforts that were made by the ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE to get WIDERA out of the State of Wisconsin in 1976. SIEGFRIED WIDERA LOCATED IN MEXICO & JUMPED TO HIS DEATH: 05-25-2003 US Marshals Service received a tip that WIDERA had been in Juarez, Mexico. Additional information was aired on Mexican television regarding WIDERA's wanted status. On Sunday, May 25th 2003, WIDERA was located in the Mexico at the VISTA DORADA HOTEL in the city of Mazatlan by Mexican police. WIDERA left two signed notes in his room before he jumped off his third floor balcony. WIDERA died as a result of the injuries sustained from his jump. FINAL CASE DISPOSITION This case was officially closed on 06-08-2003, as the offender, Siegfried WIDERA, is deceased. The file can be released, however, care should be taken to protect the names of the victims. 11301 W.Lincoln Avenue West Allis ,WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax:(414)302-8099 78~ ADOM023666 West Allis Police Department Incident Report LAST WILL & TESTAMENT LETTERS LEFT BY WIDERA PRIOR TO HIS JUMP/ APOLOGIZES FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST & ASKS FOR FORGIVENESS Siegfried WIDERA left two notes in his hotel room at the VISTA DORADA HOTEL before he jumped off the third floor balcony to his death. Both are signed and are dated "05-25-2003." In the first note, addressed, "To whom it may concern," Siegfried WIDERA wrote that he was "very sorry for what happened in the past" and asked for God to have mercy on his soul. WIDERA also expressed gratitude to his family. Finally, Siegfried WIDERA asked that if the note is accepted as his "last will and testament", that he wanted "whatever is left" to go to his family,".. .Thanking you (his family) for everything." In the second note, left on MANDALAY BAY (a hotel located in Las Vegas, NV) stationery, Siegfried WIDERAjwrote that he wanted to leave everything that he possessed in Mazatlan (Mexico) t o ^ ^ H H a ndoHHHBHHHIIB^^^^^^H'^ x e handwriting on both notes appears consistent witfnnaTon the passport application and corporatefilingsSiegfried WIDERA completed as well as all of Siegfried WIDERA's handwritten letters and notes turned over by the ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE. FINAL COPY OF REPORT SENT TO ADA CHRIS LIEGEL; 06-11-2003 On 06-11-2003, afinalcopy of this report was sent to ADA Chris Liegel via email. PHOTOS/ EVIDENCE RELEASED TO OWNER: 06-11-2003 On 06-11-2003,1 turned over all the photos of WIDERA taken during the 1976 trip, a Christmas card as well as photos obtained from a victim's mother back to the rightful owner (a victim) as they were no longer needed for this case. RECORDED CASSETTE TAPE FORMERLY ON WAPD PROPERTY fl^MNOW WITH S REPORT ^ m On 06-18-2003, the cassette tape that was formerly on WAPD property dMMj w a s from property and was placed with this file i n Q ^ ^ o " r e m 0 ved/ closed STORAGE OF CASE FILE DC Jungbluth reports.... On 04/12/2004, a box containing documents from this case was forwarded to the Forensic and Technical Services Bureau for long-term storage in the garage locked storage area. 11301 W Lincoln Avenue West Albs , WI 53227 Telephone: (414)-302-8000 Fax- (414)302-8099 79 ADOM023667 Background on Sigfried Widera (SW): ;Wiciera Sigfried 1967 I L... StJohn Nepomuc (Mke) St Mary Help of Christians (West Allls} St Mary (Pt Washington) 1967 1969 Deceased 1969 1972 St. Andrew (Deiavan) 1975 1977 1972 1975 i i SW was ordained for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee 1967. In 1973 while stationed at St Mary Parish in Port Washington he was arrested for sexual abuse of a minor. He was given three years probation and the judged ordered him to be sent outside the area. He was sent for therapy and then went to St. Andrew Parish in Deiavan. He reoffended there but the parents did not want it reported to authorities and wanted him gone. Between November and December of 1976 W announced his intention to move out of the territory of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. The Archdiocese learned that he would go to Florida to visit his parents and then go to California where his brother lived. The Archdiocese of Milwaukee did not send Widera to California on its own initiative. In December 1976 when the Archdiocese learned that Widera was in California, the Archbishop of Milwaukee, William E. Cousins, notified the Bishop of Orange, William R. Johnson. Archbishop Cousins warned Bishop Johnson that any decision about giving Widera an assignment was at Johnson's discretion. He indicated that this exercise of Johnson's discretion should not occur until "pertinent and important questions have been answered." Cousins further advised that Johnson should have a personal meeting with Widera before making any decisions. Cousins told him that there had been a problem with Widera and young boys. He also said that Widera needed tofinda doctor in California to continue in therapy. In October 1981 Monsignor Michael P. Driscoll, acting for Bishop Johnson, informed the Archdiocese of Milwaukee that Widera was seeking to transfer his incardination from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee to the Diocese of Orange and that Bishop Johnson had approved this request. The Diocese of Orange removed Widera in 1985 as soon as it became aware that he was suspected of sexually abusing children there. The diocese sent Widera for therapy for one year in New Mexico. "Today, if such a request were to be made by any archdiocese, the priest would not be admitted to pastoral work in the Diocese of Orange," Bishop Tod Brown said in a prepared statement. "While the acceptance of a priest undergoing treatment was considered acceptable then, it is not today, and we regret any pain that may have been caused by accepting Widera in 1976." In 2002 a warrant was issued for Widera's arrest. He was finally located in Mexico where he fell /jumped to his death from a hotel balcony. What was done in 1973 by the courts and by the Church, simply moving an offender elsewhere, does not happen today. What happened in 1976, accepting a priest from another diocese without a thorough background check, does not happen today. There is a form that must be completed by the priest's own bishop verifying that there are no problems in the man's background. (Copy attached) ADOM029850 DEC 0 2 2002 fl7fd/?M?VS of le&#L h*M C/?Ttf&Ltc Sc//coL; ST. 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ADOM031076 /?3 fexT/i/SfT-C-) : >>&seMX3e&d) 77/fiT X C6M7fiCT?D$/Wi1&D pfmQueTfc Afico St&ooL ; fiuT Tie S//OLOS MS6 T//e fadAU), 7J///c/{ 7?/ey CQ*a/76T?>mL 6J*TP* S& 77/j^B &//y x1m See/kjNa ?e$#L CcuMseL XM y&?3 /?7A7re%} XH //tf>es T//#T x JJ/U se /isle To /kce #IL 77/ose'tica^eD*-PM MI n/e /77EURA/T/7l /)un P7/ysic^L #J'77/-XN tny A/f? f f %Mqutsft"'iT/ftf* //as decu&tn ADOM031077 lof 3 Aug. 1,2002 Hearing the stories of so many others has given me the strength and fortitude to finally do what is not only right but what I believe to be the only way tofinallyput the bad memories and possibly the nightmares that I have lived with for so long to rest. I write this not to ally the fears of my family or friends, but for myself. To hopefully, once and for all end an incredibly long nightmare that time itself has failed to heal. The fourth grade. The time in a child's life when girls still had cooties and girl germs were still a threat to any healthy young boy. An innocent time when a kid could still be a kid and growing up was still over lifes' horizon. Unfortunately for me, I had to grow up a lot faster than most nine year olds and in doing so too much got left behind. Never again would there be innocence, but only the guilt that comes with the angst of knowing that I could possibly have stopped a horrible sickness that was being spread by one man. A man who would steal away my life and ,for all I know .countless others. '1 he man was Father Sigfried Widera. A person who used his pleasant charm to steal his way into families hearts only to steal away the innocence of their children. It all started with the trips to the swimming pool at Lake Lawn Lodge, and continued at the school and the church itself. The swimming trips all started out innocently at first with other children present. But there were the times when he would pick me up by myself and that's when the abuse would occur. It never seemed odd to me at the time but when I look back I can always remember the time in the afternoon that he would pick me up. I now can see clearly the clock on the wall as it reached 3:00pm and the lady watching ol area would leave either for the day or for her break. I remember her name was with her slightly hunched over posture and an otherwise kind smile. Afterward, okedback over the years I wondered for a long time if she knew what he was doing, but in retrospect I no longer believe she did. M It was at the. times she left that I would unwillingly become (for lack of a better word) a tool of masturbation for this man. It would be either in the pool itself or in the shower. He would pull me against him and rub his erection between my legs or on my back until he was sexually gratified. 1 can remember as he ran his hands over my own genitals and how I tried to push his hands away. I can remember crying and begging him to please let me go but to no avail. And when he was done and after he would let me go I would step away and sometimes look back and see him staring at the ground as if he was praying. And I wondered if he was thanking God for what he had just received or if he might actually be praying for forgiveness. For mc there has been no forgiving. Not for him. Not for myself. Not for God. ADOM035448 2 of 3 Other times he would take me out on his boat. He would say we were just going to visit with other parishioners who lived on the lake. But before we could make it to their homes, he would find a deserted location on the lake and the same thing would happen again. Other times he would put me on his lap when we were driving someplace and rub himself on my buttocks. There were times when he would come to my home and while my mom would be in the kitchen making coffee for him, he would pull me on his lap and do the same thing. This wasn't one of those things that happened once or twice, it was something that occurred many times over many months, and I lived in shame blaming myself to this day for even being in reach of this man. 1 can remember finally finding a way to end this abuse. I had thought for weeks that I would finally get up the courage to tell about what was happening to me without exposing myself to any humiliation. I thought I had the perfect solution and it was so simple. This was rhe year T wa.s to have my first confession. AH I would have to do was enter the confessional anonymously and tell my story. I had looked forward to this time for months and for the first time in months that I felt good about myself. As I entered that booth I was determined to end this. It was only to my horror that I entered the confessional and heard that voice that could belong to only one man. I can still to this day feel the devastation that entered me that day and the thought that it was a sign from God to keep my mouth shut. I went home that night and cried. A memory that bums in me to this day. A sense of relief came only after 1 found out he was gone. No explanation to the students and none that T can remember hearing about to the adults. At the time I thought it was over but little did I know it was all just beginning. Not long after he had left I began to fee! as if the other kids were treating me different. I had begun to think that maybe they knew what he had been doing to me and they were angry at me foT telling on him. I began to distance myself and to become a loner. 1 withdrew into myself and promised myself that no one would ever get the chance to get close. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ m m P ^ ^ ^ m r ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ L .,,,.,,,,, ,,. I | , ,,, ADOM035449 3 of 3 In the last six months I have learned that the abuse that T suffered did not have to happen and probably would not have happened if this archdiocese had not shuffled Widera to St. Andrews immediately after he was convicted of child abuse in 1973.1 was appalled to find out that he was allowed to be in contact widi young children even after a conviction. Was no one warned of this man. After he was removed from St. Andrews, why wasn't something done for the children. Were we so unimportant. I already know that this man was transferred to another church and he did it again. I live with the thought that I could have stopped this if only I had come forward sooner. And now I know that this man is on the run. This doesn't scare me for my sake but for the safety of some poor child that might have to grow up as I did. I Only wish T believed enough in prayer to pray for any child he comes across. 1 wonder now where do I go from here. o1 ADOM035450 OFFICE OF SEXUAL ABUSE PREVENTION AND RESPONSE SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE SEXUAL ABUSE INTAKE REPORT Date Report Taken: 7/16/2008 Time: Phone In Person Received By: Amy Peterson Person Reporting Phone Number: Address: \ A c > w *^~^o Q<^(A-^~\ ->-v . Allegations made by: (if not same as above) Name: Date of Birth: Address: Age at time of Phone: Allegations: 6-8 years of age ^ ^ I p t t e n d e d St. Justin Martyr School in Anaheim, California, beginning in September of 1979. ^ H w a s beginning first grade at the time. Father Widera was assigned as an associate pastor at St. Justin Matryr Parish when began attending the associated school. Early i n J H f s first grade year he TO<YSCHOt.OGIST MILWWUkkt, Wlt>CONt>>IN 5321I 29 January 1976 TCLCPHONCl AKCA COOC 414 Reverend Robert G. Sampon, Chancellor Archdiocese of Milwaukee 345 North 95th Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226 Dear Father: I can fully understand the concerns which you outline in your recent note to m e . I will t r y to explain the situations to you. J V Fattier fl____BBfras referred to me by a local psychiatrist to whom he had been sent b y his gastroenterologist. Father was suffering from chronic colitis which was seriously interfering with his digestion of food. As a result of this he was undergoing a n increasing weight l o s s ; a t one time about a year ago he was hospitalized in Trinity Hospital because of the threat of dehydration. The way back for M B h a s been slow and painful. The alternative to intensive care I feel sure would have been a severe ulcerative colitis of the type that his classmate FatherJMMMF suffered through when he was critically ill a couple of years ago. At the present time Father's condition is much improved. His visits have been cut (as you will notice on the statements) from twice weekly to once weekly and I can foresee the time when they will be spaced even yfurther. Father Widera presents a completely different picture. He i s , as I am s u r e you know, on probation for child molestation. It was a stipulation of the sentencing judge that the supervision be strict. It appears a s though the judge was unusually harsh and s e v e r e in the sentencing. This is especially true since we have tried to have the probation reduced from three years to two but without success. I am the de facto probation officer. The actual probation officer, who i s a member of St. Andrew's Parish in Deiavan, has been content to have virtually no contact with Father Widera except written forms which Father must fill out under State statute, In the event that Father Widera should encounter any type of difficulty, r e a l o r imagined, his probation can be suspended almost capriciously and he can be remandedwithout even so much as a court hearing--to the penitentiary at Waupun. In his case AOM003417 ADOM048459 Ill Reverend Robert G. Sampon, Chancellor -2- 29 January 1976 I insist on weekly meetings since the publicity and incarceration would bring incalculable h a r m to Father and extreme embarassment in the press to the Archbishop and the Diocese. f it All of this i s in preamble to whether either of the priest patients could personally afford to underwrite p a r t of the therapeutic expenses. Frankly, I do not know. I suspect Father__H___Bfs folks a r e a slight cut above the average working man In income but Father has been stationed in a large parish where I would suspect there has been an above average amount of revenue for a priest ordained a s many years as he. While Father Widera's folks a r e probably much wealthier, Father himself appears to have little of the material. I would suspect he has had l e s s income since ordination and also that the legal expenses incurred were great. Over a period of the last fifteen years it has been my privilege to have had in therapy many priests of the Archdiocese. I have never totalled the amount but I am s u r e that It has been more than substantial. P r i e s t s seem to do better therapeutically with psychologists than they do with psychiatrists. Perhaps this I s because we come out of a broad spectrum liberal a r t s background rather than the more austere p r e medical training; I suspect it is even m o r e so because psychologists do not want o r require the tacit admission of being "sick" that one must give when one enters any physician's office, The problem has been that psychologists have ordinarily not been able to recover payment from insurance companies a s have psychiatrists. At the present time there is a bill before the Wisconsin Assembly which would make It mandatory for psychologists to be paid in the same way a s psychiatrists. I am taking the liberty of enclosing an additional sheet of paper explaining the bill. Obviously the savings to the Diocese and to many of the religious communities would be great if the bill were enacted. While I fully understand that the Chancery cannot take a position supporting one profession against another at least you might cheer us on silently. Again, I wish you would take the time to personally r e a s s u r e the Most Reverend Archbishop that we attempt to waste no time in the resolution of problems; human beings a r e simply too complex to do it a s quickly a s any of u s would like. With every best wish, Consulting Psychologist o ^ ^ " ^ ^ AOM003418 Enclosure ADOM048460 Qf-Tfcl Please return to: ARCHDIOCESAN PERSONNEL BOARD 1500 South 29th Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53215 PERSONAL DATA FORM - 1969 The information below is essential to the effective utilization of Diocesan Personnel and will he used with the strictest confidence. (Please type or print your replies.) 1. Name j_i__lera. Siea-vVted Year of Birth 2. ff y>triH<<.H City Parish !L Inner Core parish Suburban Parish t Changing parish Parish with two Associate Pastors Other (Describe) Parish with one Associate Pastor Parish without Associate Pastor 3. Among parish activities, where does your main interest lie? A (e.g. - C.C.D., Youth Work) Vfr^t. ,/Wugfiu *-- ^f&r+^m.L &?/'>>* <<.f_ ADOM048501 Entry for the Sexual Abuse Log ^y^ar-bara-ReiakeJune 3,2002 County and is closely connected with St. Andrew Parish in Deiavan. A voman had recently told H B B B H - B &&*a l? c a l P^est had abused her TOsoandlvhen he was a child. JBMliliM not know the name of the victim or the offender, aitliough there is suggestion that it maybe Fr. S. Widera, Nevertheless, she is concerned about her duty to report. I explained to her that there is no duty to report in this instance, and encouraged passing on information to this man about how Project Benjamin maybe able to serve him, IMMpHB^fwill be leaving Wisconsin at the end of June to return to I BR:saz ABOM055435 AGREEMENT AND MUTUAL RELEASE This Agreement and Mutual Release (hereafter "Agreement") is made by and between ^ ^ ^ H ( h e r e a f t c r ^ | f , and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and all of its affiliated entities, schools, and parishes (hereafter "Archdiocese"). Ihas brought to the attention of the Archdiocese that he was sexually abused by Siegfried Widera (hereafter "Widera"), a former priest of the Archdiocese, when was a minor. id the Archdiocese entered into mediation to achieve reconciliation and restoration, to help repair the harm to ^ ^ ^ H n d to otherwise resolve and settle all disputes between them. Accordingly, the parties to this Agreement wish to resolve and satisfy all claims of any nature t h a t ^ ^ ^ B has against the Archdiocese, and all of the Archdiocese's employees, agents, insurers, officers, directors, affiliates, and assigns, including, without limitation, all members of the Roman Catholic clergy and all parishes, schools, and religious orders, and any person or entity affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church in the territory of the Archdiocese, arising from the sexual abuse of ^ ^ H by Widera without the necessity of further proceedings or expense of any nature, and ail parties wish to generally release one another from all liability for any claims that may exist to the date of the signing of this Agreement, including, but not limited to, any claims for sexual abuse of ^ ^ H by Widera. So, in consideration of the mutual promises made here, and other valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties to this Agreement agree as follows: QBMKE\5497644.1 ADOM056547 1. The Archdiocese agrees to provide^^^Hwith $50,000, These funds shall be used at ^ ^ ^ H discretion. 2. The Archdiocese further agrees to provide ^ H l with $3 8,000 to assist with debts and loss of employment income that are directly related to emotional distress of dealing with the abuse by Widera. 3. The Archdiocese further agrees that Archbishop Timothy Dolan will meet with I at a mutually agreed upon time and place and thatH^Hwiil initiate plans for this meeting by contacting Amy Peterson. 4. ^ ^ ^ H i n d the Archdiocese will each bear their own costs and any attorney's fees associated with the settlement, and there will be no payment to ^ ^ H o t h e r than that specifically enumerated in these paragraphs. 5. In return for the payments set out above, and for the mutual promises contained herein, HHHreleases and forever discharges the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and all of the Archdiocese's employees, agents, insurers, officers, directors, affiliates, and assigns, including, without limitation, all members of the Roman Catholic clergy, and all parishes, schools, and religious orders and any person or entity affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church in the territory of the Archdiocese of Milwaukeefrom,and covenants not to sue them for, all claims, causes of action, charges, and demands, whether in tort, contract, or otherwise, of any nature that he may have had at any time up to and including the date of signing of this Agreement, including, without limitation, any claim of any nature arising from the assault, injury, whether physical or mental, or any other activity by Widera. QBMKEN5497644.1 o ADOM056548 6. The Archdiocese hereby releases and forever discharges ^ ^ H from all claims, demands, and causes of action of any nature that were in existence up to and including the date of the signing of this Agreement. 7. This Agreement supersedes all prior understandings and agreements between the parties, and constitutes the full agreement of the parties. No change to this Agreement shall be enforced against any party unless it is in writing signed by both parties. 8. The undersigned represent and warrant that each has read the foregoing Agreement; had an opportunity to discuss it with a lawyer; and fully understands its terms; voluntarily, freely, and without coercion signs the Agreement; and that Dr. Barbara Anne Cusack is an authorized representative of the Archdiocese and is duly authorized to execute this Agreement and Mutual Release. QBMKEX5497644.1 3 ADOM056549 AGREEMENT AND MUTUAL RELEASE This Agreement and Mutual Release (hereafter "Agreement") is made by and between L _____Pfwisconsin, and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and all of its affiliated entities, schools, and parishes (hereafter "Archdiocese"). las brought to the attention of the Archdiocese that he was sexually abused by Siegfried Widera (hereafter "Widera"), a priest of the Archdiocese, when ^ ^ ^ M was a minor. m ^ n d the Archdiocese entered into mediation to achieve reconciliation and restoration, to help repair the harm t o | m and to otherwise resolve and settle all disputes between them. Accordingly, the parties to this Agreement wish to resolve and satisfy all claims of any nature t h a t f l H H | n a s against the Archdiocese, and all of the Archdiocese's employees, agents, officers, directors, affiliates, insurers, and assigns, including, without limitation, ail members of the Roman Catholic clergy and all parishes, schools, and religious orders, and any person or entity affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church in the territory of the Archdiocese, arisingfromthe sexual abuse of g f l y Siegfried Widera without the necessity of further proceedings or expense of any nature, and all parties wish to generally release one another from all liability for any claims that may exist to the date of the signing of this Agreement, including, but not limited to, any claims for sexual abuse of ^ ^ ^ H by Widera. QBMKEV5497S44.1 ADOM056656 So, in consideration of the mutual promises made here, and other valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties to this Agreement agree as follows: 1. The Archdiocese agrees to arrange for a personal meeting o f ^ ^ ^ ^ H with Archbishop Timonthy Dolan at a date and time to be mutually agreed upon. 2. De a t The Archdiocese agrees to provide^^^J^vith $40,000. These funds shall B B B B H J i s c r e t i ? n f? r purposes including, but not limited to, any further needs for counseling, educational efforts, or other actions he deems therapeutic. 3. H B H i and the Archdiocese will each bear their own costs and any attorney's fees associated with the settlement, and there will be no payment toj other than that specifically enumerated in these paragraphs. 4. In return for the payments set out above, and for the mutual promises contained herein, B U I releases and forever discharges the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and all of the Archdiocese's employees, agents, officers, directors, affiliates, insurers, and assigns, including, without limitation, all members of the Roman Catholic clergy, and all parishes, schools, and religious orders and any person or entity affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church in the territory of the Archdiocese of Milwaukeefrom,and covenants not to sue them for, all claims, causes of action, charges, and demands, whether in tort, contract, or otherwise, of any nature that he may have had at any time up to and including the date of signing of this Agreement, including, without limitation, any claim of any nature arisingfromthe assault, injury, whether physical or mental, or any other activity by Widera. QBMKE\5497644.i 2 ,y 5. The Archdiocese hereby releases and forever d i s c h a r g e f l H H | | from all claims, demands, and causes of action of any nature that were in existence up to and including the date of the signing of this Agreement. 6. This Agreement supersedes all prior understandings and agreements between the parties, and constitutes the full agreement of the parties. No change to this Agreement shall be enforced against any party unless it is in writing signed by both parties. 7. The undersigned represent and warrant that each has read the foregoing Agreement; had an opportunity to discuss it with a lawyer; and fully understands its terms; voluntarily, freely, and without coercion signs the Agreement; and that Dr. Barbara Anne Cusack is an authorized representative of the Archdiocese and is duly authorized to execute this Agreement and Mutual Release. Date &^?VX_ f-3 Archdiocese of Milwaukee by: Dr. Barbara Anne Cusack 0&S Date QBMKE\5497644.1 ADOM056658 AGREEMENT AND MUTUAL RELEASE This Agreement and Mutual Release (hereafter "Agreement") is made by and b e t w e e i f l H H H H H H (hereafter ' _ _ _ _ _ _ o ) , and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and all of its affiliated entities, schools, and parishes, including, without limitation, St. Mary Congregation and School (hereafter "Archdiocese"). las brought to the attention of the Archdiocese that she was sexually abused by Siegfried Widera (hereafter "Widera"), a priest of the Archdiocese, when /as a minor. I and the Archdiocese entered into mediation to achieve reconciliation and restoration, to help repair the harm t o ^ ^ ^ ^ B and to otherwise resolve and settle all disputes between them. Accordingly, the parties to this Agreement wish to resolve and satisfy all claims of any nature that | | ^ H h a s against the Archdiocese, and all of the Archdiocese's employees, agents, insurers, officers, directors, affiliates, and assigns, including, without limitation, all members of the Roman Catholic clergy and all parishes, schools, and religious orders, and any person or entity affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church in the territory of the Archdiocese, arisingfromthe sexual abuse of ______H>v Widera without the necessity of further proceedings or expense of any nature, and all parties wish to generally release one anotherfromall liability for any claims that may exist to the date of the signing of this Agreement, including, but not limited to, any claims for sexual abuse of H H H f l b y Widera. QBMKE\549''(544.1 ADOM056927 So, in consideration of the mutual promises made here, and other valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties to this Agreement agree as follows: 1. The Archdiocese agrees to provide . H H ^ - ^ $50,000. These funds shall a t ^ ^ ^ ^ K s discretion in pursuing educational and professional advancement in the areas of music therapy and/or group facilitator training. 2. The Archdiocese of Milwaukee agrees to provide payment not covered by insurance for counseling and medication f ? r | | H H B n c l her immediate family members (parents, siblings, spouse and children). The Archdiocese shall make payments to the counselor for reasonable costs, billed at the counselor's usual and customary rate. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, the Archdiocese's therapy payments owed under this provision shall be based upon treatment plans submitted by each individual and his/her counselor. The Archdiocese agrees to assist in retiring existing debt in this regard in the amount of.$15,000 3. The Archdiocese of Milwaukee agrees that pastoral outreach to victims- survivors is essential and, as such, commits to facilitating and supporting an outreach program for victims/survivors of clergy sexual abuse in the Ozaukee County area, in conjunction with the pastors of the area parishes, parish leadership, victims/survivors of clergy sexual abuse, and other professionals. The goal of this coalition will be to create a regionally-focused outreach plan to best serve the needs of victims-survivors and their families in the Ozaukee County area. This includes the establishment of support groups for victims/survivors and their families, as well as a support network for any victims/survivors yet to come forward. Meetings to develop such a plan will begin by September 15,2004. QBMKE\5497644.I 2 ADOM056928 has expressed her interest in assisting in the planning and execution of such outreach. 4. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B m d the Archdiocese will each bear their own costs and any attorney's fees associated with the settlement, and there will be no payment to | other than that specifically enumerated in these paragraphs. 5. In return for the payments set out above, and for the mutual promises contained herein^^^^Hreleases and forever discharges the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and all of the Archdiocese's employees, agents, insurers, officers, directors, affiliates, and assigns, including, without limitation, all members of the Roman Catholic clergy, and all parishes, schools, and religious orders, including, without limitation, St. Mary Congregation and School and any person or entity affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church in the territory of the Archdiocese of Milwaukeefrom,and covenants not to sue them for, all claims, causes of action, charges, and demands, whether in tort, contract, or otherwise, of any nature that he may have had at any time up to and including the date of signing of this Agreement, including, without limitation, any claim of any nature arising from the assault, injury, whether physical or mental, or any other activity by Widera. 6. The Archdiocese hereby releases and forever discharges o o j f i o i n all claims, demands, and causes of action of any nature that were in existence up to and including the date of the signing of this Agreement. 7. This Agreement supersedes all prior understandings and agreements between the parties, and constitutes the full agreement of the parties. No change to this Agreement shall be enforced against any party unless it is in writing signed by both parties. QBMKE\5497644.1 3 ADOM056929 8. The undersigned represent and warrant that each has read the foregoing Agreement; had an opportunity to discuss it with a lawyer; and fully understands its terms; voluntarily,freely,and without coercion signs the Agreement; and that Dr. Barbara Anne Cusack is an authorized representative of the Archdiocese and is duly authorized to execute this Agreement and Mutual Release. QBMKEN5497644.1 4 AGREEMENT AND MUTUAL RELEASE This Agreement and Mutual Release (hereafter "Agreement") is made by and b e t w e e n ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H (hereafter ^ ^ ^ ^ f t > and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and all of its affiliated entities, schools, and parishes, including, without limitation, St. Mary Congregation and School (hereafter "Archdiocese"). las brought to the attention of the Archdiocese that he was sexually abused by Siegfried Widera (hereafter "Widera"), a former priest of the Archdiocese, when was a minor. land the Archdiocese entered into mediation to achieve reconciliation and restoration, to help repair the harm to ^ ^ H , and to otherwise resolve and settle all disputes between them. Accordingly, the parties to this Agreement wish to resolve and satisfy all claims of any nature t h a t ^ ^ H has against the Archdiocese, and all of the Archdiocese's employees, agents, insurers, officers, directors, affiliates, and assigns, including, without limitation, all members of the Roman Catholic clergy and all parishes, schools, and religious orders, and any person or entity affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church in the territory of the Archdiocese, arising from the sexual abuse o f ^ ^ H by Widera without the necessity of further proceedings or expense of any nature, and all parties wish to generally release one another from all liability for any claims that may exist to the date of the signing of this Agreement, including, but not limited to, any claims for sexual abuse o f ^ ^ H by Widera. QBMKEV5497644.1 ADOM057091 So, in consideration of the mutual promises made here, and other valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties to this Agreement agree as follows: 1. The Archdiocese agrees to provide ^ ^ H with $50,000. These funds shall be used atHHHdiscretion including but not limited to training and equipment to pursue a career in EBBUUHBttBBBBBfflS&EB&8ttBBBBBMBBBttBBBBBBBBB& a down payment on a house and car. 2. ^ ^ H acknowledges receipt of previous assistance in the amount of $6,000 given in sums of $5,000 and $1,000. These funds were provided for immediate and legitimate needs presented at the time. 3. The Archdiocese agrees to make available to ^ H | s e r v i c e s at its disposal for credit and real estate counsel. The Archdiocese shall not be held liable for any financial or real estate decisions or transactions made by^^^Has a result of such counseling. 4. ^ ^ ^ a n d the Archdiocese will each bear their own costs and any attorney's fees associated with the settlement, and there will be no payment to flflH other than that specifically enumerated in these paragraphs. 5. In return for the payments set out above, and for the mutual promises contained herein,^^^H releases and forever discharges the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and all of the Archdiocese's employees, agents, insurers, officers, directors, affiliates, and assigns, including, without limitation, all members of the Roman Catholic clergy, and all parishes, schools, and religious orders, including, without limitation, St. Mary Congregation and School and any person or entity affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church in the territory of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee from, and covenants not to sue QBMKE\5497644.1 2 ADOM057092 them for, all claims, causes of action, charges, and demands, whether in tort, contract, or otherwise, of any nature that he may have had at any time up to and including the date of signing of this Agreement, including, without limitation, any claim of any nature arising from the assault, injury, whether physical or mental, or any other activity by Widera. 6. The Archdiocese hereby releases and forever discharges ^^^ofrom all claims, demands, and causes of action of any nature that were in existence up to and including the date of the signing of this Agreement. 7. This Agreement supersedes all prior understandings and agreements between the parties, and constitutes the full agreement of the parties. No change to this Agreement shall be enforced against any party unless it is in writing signed by both parties. 8. The undersigned represent and warrant that each has read the foregoing Agreement; had an opportunity to discuss it with a lawyer; and folly understands its terms; voluntarily, freely, and without coercion signs the Agreement; and that Dr. Barbara Anne Cusack is an authorized representative of the Archdiocese and is duly authorized to execute this Agreement and Mutual Release. LTsZV-Q' L-8-?V rchdiocese of Milwaukee )y: Dr. Barbara Anne Cusack Date OBMKE\5497644.1 ADOM057093 AGREEMENT AND MUTUAL RELEASE This Agreement and Mutual Release (hereafter "Agreement") is made by and between icreafter^^H) and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and all of its affiliated entities, schools, and parishes (hereafter "Archdiocese"). o111 has advised the Archdiocese that he was sexually abused by Sigfried Widera (hereafter "Widera"), a former priest of the Archdiocese, when ^Hwas a minor. ^ ^ o a n d the Archdiocese entered into mediation to achieve reconciliation and restoration, to address issues of concern to both sides, to further prevent sexual abuse of minors and to enhance Church practices in this regard, and to otherwise resolve and settle all disputes between them. Accordingly, the parties to this Agreement wish to resolve and satisfy all claims of any nature that ^ H has against the Archdiocese, and all of the Archdiocese's employees, agents, officers, directors, affiliates, insurers and assigns, including, without limitation, all members of the Roman Catholic clergy and all parishes, schools, and religious orders, and any person or entity affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church in the territory of the Archdiocese, arising from any sexual abuse o f ^ | b y Widera without the necessity of further proceedings or expense of any nature, and all parties wish to generally release one another from all liability for any claims that may exist to the date of the signing of this Agreement, including, but not limited to, any claims for sexual abuse of gjjjj|by Widera So, in consideration of the mutual promises made here, and other valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties to this Agreement agree as follows: QBMKEV5706354.2 ADOM057101 1. The Archdiocese agrees to provide j j with $50,000. These funds shall be used own discretion. 2. The Archdiocese agrees to provide^||with $50, 000 for use in funding past and ongoing therapy, counseling, and related expenses. At ^^Hrequest, this amount is being provided in a single payment. BBjundcrstands and has been advised that this amount constitutes full and final payment for any therapy, counseling and related expenses ^ H m a y incur at any time in the future. 3. ^ H and the Archdiocese will each bear their own costs and any attorney's fees associated with the Agreement, and there will be no payment to ^ B o t h e r than that specifically enumerated above. 4. In return for the payment set out above, and for the mutual promises contained herein, ^Mreleases and forever discharges the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and all of the Archdiocese's employees, agents, officers, directors, affiliates, insurers and assigns, including, without limitation, all members of the Roman Catholic clergy, and all parishes, schools, and religious orders, and any person or entity affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church in the territory of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee from, and covenants not to sue them for, all claims, causes of action, charges, and demands, whether in tort, contract, or otherwise, of any nature that he may have had at any time up to and including the date of signing of this Agreement, including, without limitation, any claim of any nature arising from any assault, injury, whether physical or mental, or any other activity by Widera. 5. The Archdiocese hereby releases and forever discharges ^ | from all claims, demands, and causes of action of any nature that were in existence up to and including the date of the signing of this Agreement. QBMJCE\57063S4.2 ? ADOM057102 6. This Agreement supersedes all prior understandings and agreements between the parties, and constitutes the full agreement of the parties. No change to this Agreement shall be enforced against any party unless it is in writing signed by both parties. 7. The undersigned represent and warrant that each has read the foregoing Agreement; had an opportunity to discuss it with a lawyer; and fully understands its terms; voluntarily, freely, and without coercion signs the Agreement; and that the undersigned are duly authorized and capable of executing this Agreement and Mutual Release. Since both sides have had an opportunity to review this instrument with a lawyer of his or its choosing, in the event this instrument needs to be construed, it shall be construed and understood as it is written and without regard or preference as to which party served as the drafter of the same. Date r/ifl# Date Archdiocese of Milwaukee by: Dr. Barbara Anne Cusack Date QBMKE\57063S4.2 ADOM057103 AGREEMENT AND MUTUAL RELEASE This Agreement and Mutual Release (hereafter "Agreement") is made by and between ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ _ ,, | and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and all of its affiliated entities, schools, and parishes, including, without limitation, St. Andrew Congregation and School (hereafter "Archdiocese")has brought to the attention of the Archdiocese that he was sexually abused by Siegfried Widera (hereafter "Widera"), a priest of the Archdiocese, during approximately 1974 - 1975 when H J | j [ H w a s a muior - and the Archdiocese entered into mediation to achieve reconciliation and restoration, to help repair the harm to ^ ^ ^ H and to otherwise resolve and settle all disputes between them. Accordingly, the parties to this Agreement wish to resolve and satisfy all claims of any nature that o H H h a s against the Archdiocese, and all of the Archdiocese's employees, agents, officers, directors, affiliates, and assigns, including, without limitation, all members of the Roman Catholic clergy and all parishes, schools, and religious orders, and any person or entity affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church in the territory of the Archdiocese, arising from the sexual abuse of ^ ^ H H b y Siegfried Widera without the necessity of further proceedings or expense of any nature, and all parties wish to generally release one another from all liability for any claims that may exist to the date of the signing QBMK.EV5497644.1 ADOM057241 of this Agreement, including, but not limited to, any claims for sexual abuse of Widera. So, in consideration of the mutual promises made here, and other valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties to this Agreement agree as follows: 1. The Archdiocese agrees to provide m p i t h $30,000. These funds shall be. f o r ^ ^ ^ ^ H use in retiring past indebtedness which shall include but not be limited to paying the balance due on his truck, repaying outstanding student loans, payment of past due taxes, and payment of credit card balances. 2. The Archdiocese agrees to providtflH^Hwith $10,000 for use inl 3. The Archdiocese agrees to provid^^^^^Bwith an additional $10,000 for use at his discretion either for personal or business use. ^" MHBB 2 3 1 ^ *^e Archdiocese will each bear their own costs and any attorney's fees associated with the settlement, and there will be no payment tc other than that specifically enumerated in these paragraphs. 5. In return for the payments set out above, and for the mutual promises contained herem,^^^^Beleases and forever discharges the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and all of the Archdiocese's employees, agents, officers, directors, affiliates, and assigns, including, without limitation, all members of the Roman Catholic clergy, and all parishes, schools, and religious orders, including, without limitation, St. Andrew Congregation and School and any person or entity affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church in the territory of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee from, and covenants not to sue QBMKE\5497644.I 2 ADOM057242 J them for, all claims, causes of action, charges, and demands, whether in tort, contract, or otherwise, of any nature that he may have had at any time up to and including the date of signing of this Agreement, including, without limitation, any claim of any nature arising from the assault, injury, whether physical or mental, or any other activity by Widera. 6. The Archdiocese hereby releases and forever discharges | ^ ^ ^ ^ f r o m all claims, demands, and causes of action of any nature that were in existence up to and including the date of the signing of this Agreement. 7. This Agreement supersedes all prior understandings and agreements between the parties, and constitutes the full agreement of the parties. No change to this Agreement shall be enforced against any party unless it is in writing signed by both parties. 8. The undersigned represent and warrant that each has read the foregoing Agreement; had an opportunity to discuss it with a lawyer; and fully understands its terms; voluntarily, freely, and without coercion signs the Agreement; and that Dr. Barbara Anne Cusack is an authorized representative of the Arrhdinr.ese and is duly authorized to execute this Agreement and Mutual Release. QBMKE\5497644.1 3 ADOM057243 Confidential Sexual Abuse Investigation Prepared by: Robert F. Beyer September 2005 ADOMO57387 ,u Index Allegation Page 1 Investigation: Interview of^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B (victim) Page 2 Interview of ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H . Page 9 Interview ? f ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H Page 12 Interview o f ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H Page 14 Interview of ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H . Page 16 Background of Fr, Siegfried Widera Page 17 Additional investigation Page 19 Summary and Analysis Page 25 Conclusion.. Page 28 ADOM057388 Allegation Victim/Complainant: Allegation Against: Fr. Siegfried Widera (deceased), w/m, born 12-20-40, died 05-25-03. [reports that between approximately 1966 and 1968, when he was four to six years old, he was sexually abused by Fr. Siegfried Widera on at least seven occasions. ^ ^ H family attended St. Mary Help of Christians Parish in West Allis, WI, where Fr. Widera was assigned as an associate pastor, ^ ^ ^ t t e n d e d first grade at the parish school. The abuse consisted of being exposed to pornographic magazines that Fr. Widera provided t o ^ J w h i l e Fr. Widera wore only his underwear. There was an instance of abuse at the swimming pool of the Eagles Club. Fr. Widera took off his swimming trunks and hugged m f r o m behind, while rubbing himself against] .then realized that what Fr. Widera did to him when he was a young boy was also sexual abuse. B H t o l d his mother about the abuse by Fr. Widera when he was maybe twenty years old. He also told his wife, ^ ^ ^ H that he had been abused by a priest. In 2002. Detectives from the West Allis Police Department contacted fl| He reported the sexual abuse by Fr. Widera but did not want to do anything about it at that time. H I recently reported the sexual abuse to the Clergy Sexual Abuse Mediation System. ADOM057389 Investigation Interview of: On Monday, August 15, 2005, at 2:00 p.m., I interviewed ^ ^ ^ ^ H a t his residence. their home s i n c e f i f l B B ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ V were first married on IHBSHfiKHHHThey have Ido not have any children together.^^J has a ^ ^ Q g g g ^ e a r old daughter from a previous relationship, but does not have contact with her. He has U H S I i ^ h step-children f r o m ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ | very first marriage. They all live in the Milwaukee area. |father, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H E S S ^ S 8 | H i s mother, ^ ^ H f l f l H , lives by herself in St. Francis, WI. ^^orelated that his parents divorced when he was six years old. He has two sisters, and three half sisters. Two of his half sisters live in H B H H ^^Bgraduated from |in 1981, and never went to c o l l e g e . ^ ^ | ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B ^ | g B | He has previously worked as a ^ H H H H ^ H a n d as ; believes the sexual abuse by Fr. Widera occurred in about 1966 to 1968 when he was four to six years old. His family lived in the area o f ^ ^ ^ H H ^ ^ ^ B f h e y attended St. Mary Help of Christians Parish at 1210 So. 61st St, West Allis, WI. Fr. Widera was an associate pastor at the parish. H l t h i n k s his mother may have introduced him to Fr. Widera because she was active in the parish, but he is not sure. He also does not remember Fr. Widera ever being at their house. ^^Bdescribed his father as a brilliant man who did not go to church much. His mother ADOM057390 ,u went to church regularly and got the children into Catholic school.^^oonly attended first grade at St. Mary Help of Christians School. His parents then got divorced and his family moved to the area o f f l H ^ H a H ^ ^ H j o B M w e n t t o secon d and third grade at St. Hyacinth School. He doesn't remember his father being around after first grade. ^^M didn't have any contact with Fr. Widera after moving from St. Mary Help of Christians Parish. I said his mother allowed him to go places with Fr. Widera, who would sometimes take lout for ice cream or soda in his red and white Volkswagen bus. Sometimes Fr. Widera put o o on his lap and l c t ^ | steer the vehicle. Fr. Widera t o o k ^ ^ l to the Eagles Club where they used the sauna or the steam room. ^ ^ B remembers going swimming with Fr. Widera on one occasion at the Eagles Club. Fr. Widera also invited ^ ^ H t o the parish rectory connected to the church, and showeajjj^Hhis bedroom. |[^Hand Fr. Widera were alone on almost every occasion that they were together. H H d i d go on a trip to Florida with Fr. Widera and another boy. The other boy was two or three years older than ^ ^ H He does not remember the boy's name. said Fr. Widera was a fatherfigureto him and was very subtle in what he did. [does not specifically remember what happened the first time he was abused by Fr. Widera because he does not remember in what order the different abuses occurred. B M believes he was abused by Fr. Widera at least seven times. Most of the abuse consisted of being exposed to pornographic magazines. Sometimes, while in the rectory, Fr. Widera would lay down on his bed next t o U j w i t h s 0016 Playboy and Penthouse magazines that he would showjHB Fr. Widera would undress himself down to his underwear. H H d o e s not remember, but believes he stayed fully dressed. ^ ^ H said that while they looked at the magazines, Fr. Widera was maybe doing "something with himself. Fr. Widera had the pornographic magazines along with them on the trip ADOM057391 ,u to Florida. While driving, he would show the magazines to^^Band the other boy. ^ ^ I s a i d that on the trip to Florida, Fr. Widera seemed to concentrate more on the older boy who was with them. vas at the Eagles Club with Fr. Widera several times. They would go early in the morning when there weren't many people around. ^ H j remembers the white tile in the steam room. He also remembers using the sauna with Fr. Widera on at least one occasion, and using the Eagles Club swimming pool with Fr. Widera one time, ^ ^ n v a s sexually abused by Fr. Widera while at the swimming pool, ^^obelieves that he and Fr. Widera were alone in the pool area at the time of the abuse. Fr. Widera took off his swimming trunks at one point He then held and hugged^^B from behind for a few minutes, while rubbing his naked body against H H | body. Fr. Widera never said anything and was very subtle about it. He does not remember if Fr. Widera had an erection or not, but the rubbing made^Bfeel uncomfortable, ^^obelieves he had his own swimming trunks on during this incident. Although he felt uncomfortable, H H did not realize it was wrong at the time because he was young. m H *^d n o t nient >> o n anything to his mother about the pornographic magazines or the incident at the swimming pool. Fr. Widera was nice to him.HHj trusted Fr. Widera. He enjoyed going places with Fr. Widera. ^ H n e v e r realized that he had been sexually abused by Fr. Widera I said he became rebellious at that age. Iwent on a road trip with the teacher. They drove out west, possibly to Texas. During whatl ^__^_^^_^^^J sa 'd he felt shamed, guilty, and felt a sense of distrust. While in his teens, JB^Bmother either showed him an article or told him that Fr. Widera had abused a fourteen year old boy. ^ H remembered the ADOM057392 times that he was with Fr. Widera, and because he was older, realized that some of the things Fr. Widera did with him and others were not appropriate. ^ ^ H still did not tell anyone about the abuses at that time. He believes that he was around twenty years old when he first told his mother land then about the abuse by Fr. Widera. m | nas a j s o ^JJ njs wife, ^ ^ ^ ^ H , that he was abused by Fr. Widera. Isaid about three or four years ago, a male and female detective from the West Allis Police Department came to his house and questioned him about being sexually abused by Fr. Widera. He does not know how the detectives knew that he was a possible victim of Fr. Widera. [thinks that possibly the boy that went to Florida with him and Fr. Widera filed a complaint and gave the detectives his name. j ^ H s a i d he did not want to do anything about the abuse at that time, but instead waited for everything to die down. He did not want his name mentioned with the other West Allis victims.^^(said he asked the Lord what He wanted him to do. His mother told (that maybe he could report it privately and maybe get some compensation. ^^Bthought he could help his mother if he got any compensation. | believes his emotional problems are related to a combination of the sexual abuse by Fr. Widera. The abuse by Fr. Widera had the most impact though because he was so young, j j j ^ said he is high strung and disbelieving, which he feels has affected his marital situation and his ability to keep a job. ^^^Hlast job was a t g | 9 H H f i H 9 H e was has never had a job that lasted any length of time. The people he would work with couldn't see his position on different things.^^H said he is very opinionated. His longest employment was as ADOM057393 ,u Isaid he has been serving the Lord for nineteen years. He had a supernatural encounter with an angel while considering suicide in flHHHe heard the voice of a blessed spirit who actually touched him. The blessed being felt like a blanket around his shoulders. ^^Bieard a voice say, "Get on your knees". He got down on his knees and his life changed. At that time, Isaid he was very messed up emotionally. The blessed spirit knew that he was lonely and needed work. Two weeks later, A H met a girl and she helped him get a job. He said the supernatural encounter occurred on February 10*, which is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. ladmits that his religious practices could be considered extreme, "like the saints of old". He said he has profound and subtle gifts, including the gift to share messages with other people. During my interview w i t h ^ p he held a rosary and church music played in the background. I checked the Consolidated Court Automation Program (CCAP) for the Wisconsin Circuit Court System and found t h a t ^ H hasHHH^ntries. I byl The other three entries are related to the Catholic Church. ADOM057394 I checked the City of Milwaukee Municipal Court records and found that non-traffic entries. |said that he has been anrestedHBHfimes for disorderly conduct, He explained that people would not leave him alone I I which is something he likes to do. Some of the disorderly conduct citations were for speaking out and giving messages to people H Q ^ He has no doubt that the Holy Spirit led him to speak out. ^ ^ i i d that he has not been given any messages for a couple of years. He further said that he likes to attend different churches. m has never been treated for any mental illness, but he did attend two years of counseling at the Mental Health Center. The counseling, which was related to one of his arrests, was set up by his attorney and the Court. At that time, they diagnosed him a < f l ^ ^ f l f l H d o e s not feel that he has any mental illness, but said he does get extremely emotional at times. m feels that the sexual abuse by Fr. Widera has affected his relationship with his wife, his inability to keep a job, and his money problems. He has absolutely no doubt about being abused by Fr. Widera. H H s a i d he has forgiven Fr. Widera, and would never do anything to hurt the Church. | | i s reporting the abuse by Fr. Widera at this'time, because he feels that he should ADOM057395 be compensated for the abuse. When asked what he thought would be a fair compensation,! hesitated briefly, and then said $25,000 minimum, without taxes, ^^m said he is very close to Mary. He came up with that figure since March 25th is the feast of the Annunciation of Our Blessed Lady. 8 ADOM057396 .11 Interview of: On Thursday, August 18,2005, at 1:00 p.m., I interviewed at her residence, where she has lived for the past three years. ^ ^ ^ | is the mother of She has been employed as Milwaukee, WI for the past twenty-one years. has been divorced twice. Her ex-husbands are both deceased. Her last husband. | had two daughters, | ^ ^ m father. In addition to| and during her marriage tol She has a d a u g h t e r , ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B from her first marriage,1 s a i d ^ H never told her that he was abused by Fr. Widera until the last year, except for possibly bits and pieces. She doesn't know how she found out thatHHjwas abused. [heard stories about Fr. Widera and read articles about him on the internet. H | w a s silent about the abuse, possibly because he didn't want to hurt the Church. o o ^ ^u, a b o u t ^ ^ 0f the different encounters he had in the Church, but not about the abuse. H H H s a i d she just put two and two together, and as a mother knew something was w r o n g . ^ ^ ^ H s a w a leaflet at St Aloysius Church, 921Kl and Greenfield Av., which encouraged abuse victims to come forward. She then pushed f o r ^ H to come forward and report the abuse. ^ m i s a i d ^ H attended first grade at St. Mary Help of Christians School. Fr. Setnicar was the pastor of the parish at the time. H H | remembers that Fr. Widera was at the house, but does not remember why he would have been there. She knows that I H w e n t to Florida with Fr. Widera and another boy, possibly in 1968 or 1969. ^ ^ ^ o d o e s n ' t think that vent anywhere else with Fr. Widera. She does not recall t h a t ^ H e v e r Club with Fr. Widera. H ^ i d went to me Eagles she was always at home raising her family, so she is not sure ADOM057397 where I^Jwould go when he left the house. She is not aware o f ^ ^ l being abused by anyone else. M B said she doesn't remember why she moved away from St. Mary Help of Christians Parish after^^Hattended first grade there. She later said it was because of her divorce, which she said was in 1972. Isaid that ^ ^ | g o t picked on a lot. Even in first grade, he had a hard time controlling his emotions, but she said^^Bcould hold bis own. As an adult, ^ ^ I h a s a hard time keeping a job because he evangelizes. He is very Catholic, ^^m speaks in tongues and has the gift of exhortation. ^ ^ ^ H doesn't know what really happened or how often it happened, but she believes matBHwas abused by Fr. Widera because^^Bnever lies. I received a letter from the Clergy Sexual Abuse Mediation System shortly after my interview withJU^Jindicating that she had additional information to tell me. On Tuesday, August 30, 2005, at 1:35 p.m., I contacted o o o o b y phone, m ^ s a i d she doesn't know where her husband was at the time, but in 1968, when she was expecting her youngest child, ^ ^ H she cried the whole year. The crying did not occur with her other pregnancies. She is not sure if she was angry, but she was in a "real situation" at the time. The crying stopped a l t e r a m was born. ^ ^ H H gave birth t 0 | H at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Milwaukee. She thinks Fr. Widera might have visited her at the hospital, and that is how he got involved with her family. She remembers Fr. Widera telling her, "Enjoy it while the flavor lasts". ^ ^ ^ ^ | husband was at the hospital w h e n ^ J g w a s born. She remembers Fr. Widera talking to him about her crying, and asking him, "Aren't you curious how this happened"? [never asked for anyone to come to her house, but she remembers Fr. Widera being there. In 1972, after her divorce, she moved t o ^ ^ j m Q m d lived there for thirty-one years. She said she may have been separated from her husband for a short time before the divorce. 10 ADOM057398 ,1 Hlwent to kindergarten at a public school, but attended first grade at St. Mary Help of Christians School. He left St. Mary Help of Christians School because of her move to | and husband, ^ ^ ^ ^ B v h o is^^Hfather, was a year older than ^ ^ ^ | She was married to him for eleven years. ^ ^ ^ ^ | worked at ^ Q ^ ^ ^ m ^ H i ^ ^ B ^ H I He was a brilliant man,! She said he took off with another woman while she was expecting ^ ^ H b u t she remembers him being at the hospital when ^ ^ was born. He went togBBHBBBBwith the woman, I m a r r i e c ^ ^ ^ ^ before he was divorced from ^ ^ ^ H and they had a o o daughter together. He died while living i n B H H H B ^ m | s a i d her ex-husband was in prison once or twice while inl I said she doesn't know what^^H and Fr. Widera did when they were together because she was crying all the time while pregnant withl|[|^B It was a very difficult time in her life. Her daughters think t h a t ^ H is "out in left field" as far as they are concerned. ^ ^ ^ B said o B h v a s given the gift of "tongue" when he was confirmed by Archbishop Weakland. o o o knows the Bible verbatim. He has gone to evangelist seminars at Notre Dame, in Indiana, and at Franciscan College, in Steubenville, Ohio. B H j h a s also made a trip to Rome, which was paid for by a friend. 11 ADOM057399 Interview of: by phone. On Tuesday, August 30, 2005, at 8:00 p.m., I interviewed] I is the wife of victim, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H She is employed as | 9 H ^ ^ H H H ^ n H ^ n | H ^ ^ ^ H H | H [ ^ ^ H H ^ ^ ^ ^ B i c k n o w l e d g e d that she has married ^ H t a M g << M M << H m H M H H M H g S h e ig j ega rty married t r J B H a t this time. H m ^ w a s also married and divorced from someone prior to her marriages ^ M M M | m e t g m in March of 1988 while she was attending college and working as a I worked inBHHHSBHBHj^BHHBBBB^HBBHBBS They found that religion was a common topic for both of them. ^^^^oBHHfiSBHBBHBSI id ^ o s t a r t e d dating seriously possibly by the end of 1988. They married said she has a bad temper, which is part of the reason for the I las always been in and out of work. He would minister to someone at work, and they would let him go. j ^ f t o l d ^ ^ ^ ^ B h a t he feels like a failure. | H B H first learned that ^^m was sexually abused by a priest sometime in the late 1980's or early 1990's. The priest's name came up, but she did not remember the name. When asked what she knows about the abuse, ^ | j ^ | said that ^ ^ B was around six years old. The priest showed ^ H magazines with pictures of naked women, and touched B B | inappropriately. loesn't remember how many times ^ ^ 1 said he was abused. She also does not remember what activities ^ H and the priest did while together, m ^ m felt uncomfortable listening t o ^ B talk about the abuse. ^ H didn't go into details about die abuse, because if he 12 ADOM057400 tried to, ^ ^ ^ ^ H w o u l d change the subject. The abuse to^^Hby a priest bothered her. was thinking about turning Catholic at that time, and she did not want to have any negative thoughts about die Church. She became a Catholic around 1990. Periodically, during their marriages, ^ H would talk about the abuse, especially when there was a case of priest abuse in the news. He, however, never wanted to expose something like that. ^ ^ H t o l d ^ ^ ^ H that he had to forgive the priest because he is a Christian. H | ^ ^ B knows ^ H also talked to his mother about the abuse. believes that in addition to her temper, some of what they went through together in the past was related to the abuse. She said, "A lot of baggage came from the abuse". said ^ H is coming forward at this time for closure. He didn't want to do anything when everyone else came forward, because he thought it was like a circus with all the media attention. ranted to be private. ^ ^ ^ ^ left the decision to come forward up t o ^ ^ | She toldl to make up his own mind, and told him that maybe he needed to talk to a priest or a counselor. She said^^Brespects God's chosen priests. There is no doubt ' n ^ H | [ | H mind t h a t U i s telling the truth about the abuse. She said, flBBis brutally honest". I mentioned the name of Fr. Widera to ^ H H B 3 1 1 ^ s n e s a 'd that is the name of the priest whoflH said abused him. 13 ADOM057401 Interview of: On Wednesday, August 31, 2005, at 7:15 p.m., I interviewed H B B H b y phone. She is a sister of ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B U p s aware of the allegation t h a t B H was sexually abused by Fr. Widera. She remembears Fr. Widera from St Mary Help of Christians Parish. He looked the same when she saw his picture in the paper in recent years. Fr. Widera was very friendly, but he mostly hung out with the boys, for example, playing football with them. H B does not remember Fr. Widera being at their house. said in 1968 she was eight to nine years old. There were many problems in her family at that time. ^^S^SS^^BBSB^B^SlSS^BBS^^^BBB^Bi^S^BSM ^ ^ g had to take care of her sister and brother. Her sister, ^ ^ H w a s just a baby when thenparents split up. The family had no money H H H | B remembers the abuse being talked about. She knew something was going on in her family, and there was talk in the neighborhood. She remembers her mom talking t o ^ H a b o u t the fact that he had to go to school. Years later when^^g was a teenager, her mom would bring up the subject of the abuse. The sexual abuse was never stopped being talked about. Her mom always blamed Fr. Widera for Iproblems. ^ ^ never heard ^ H t a l k about details of the abuse. She is aware that when Iwent to I I does not know what happened. aid her mom is an avoider. She doesn't know how to handle crises. Her dad had a high IQ, but he also had a compulsive behavior. He did everything to the extreme. ^ ^ B i s ulce their dad, by taking everything to the extreme. She feels he is a little overboard with his religion. Ilast contact with H was a couple of months ago, when she had him and her mom over 14 ADOM057402 for dinner. She maybe sees ^^gabou! once a year. ^ ^ K a i d she has no doubts a b o u ^ ^ | being abused by Fr. Widera, because ^ H has never been a liar. 15 ADOM057403 J Interview of: On Sunday, September 4, 2005, at 4:00 p.m., I interviewed ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H by phone. She is a sister ? ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H ^^Hsaid she learned that^^H was abused by a priest through hearsay. | never specifically told her about the abuse, but she learned about the abuse from her sister. ^ ^ B said she is the youngest child in the family and was only a baby when the abuse would have occurred. She was about nine or ten years old when she first heard about the abuse. She does not know the priest who abused^^B ^ H s a i d she was so young at the time, that she was isolated from a lot of the information. She is aware that ^ ^ o J H ^ ^ ^ H S H H M S H H H ^ H The first time B B | w a s abused was by the priest. jjj^H believes something definitely happened tol but he kept things to himself. H H / e r y rarely s e e s ^ ^ B She sees her mother about two times a year. ^ ^ H s a i d her family is not very close. 16 ADOM057404 Background of: Fr. Siegfried Widera (deceased), w/m, b o r n ^ ^ ^ ^ f l d i e d ^ ^ ^ ^ H Fr. Siegfried Widera was ordained to the priesthood on May 20, 1967, and was assigned to St. Mary Help of Christians Church in West Allis as an associate pastor. He was there until June of 1972, at which time he was transferred to St. Mary's Parish in Port Washington. In July of 1973, Fr. Widera was charged with and pled guilty to sexually assaulting a fourteen year old boy. On August 13,1973, he was placed on three years of probation, and ordered by the judge to stay out of the Port Washington area. According to the Superior Court of Orange County, California, case n t ^ b e r f l f l H H H ! in early September of 1973 Fr. Widera was assigned to help out at St. Andrew's Parish in Delavan, WL In June of 1976, another allegation of sexual abuse had been made against Fr. Widera by the parents of a fourteen year old boy. On August 20,1976, Fr. Henke, the pastor of St. Andrew's Parish, reported to the Archdiocesan Personnel Board that Fr. Widera had an incident with an eleven year old boy a couple of months earlier. Shortly after this, Fr. Widera left for Costa Mesa, CA, where his brother lived. Fr. Widera served as a priest in California until he was removed from the ministry in 1985 after he was again accused of sexual misconduct. In early April 2002, an Orange County man filed a lawsuit against Fr. Widera, alleging the priest had molested him and bis brother in 1985. The news accounts detailed Fr. Widera's past, and additional victims stepped forward in Milwaukee, WI, and Orange County, CA. On May 24, 2002, the Milwaukee District Attorney's Office charged Fr. Widera with nine felony counts of Enticing A Child For Immoral Purposes and/or Indecent Behavior With a Child, case numberflH^^HHHH A Wisconsin arrest warrant for Fr. Widera was issued Those charges stemmed from Fr. Widera's assignment at St. Mary Help of Christians Church in West Allis, and involved three boys. After the charges were issued, Fr. Widera disappeared. According to the 17 ADOM057405 ,11 U.S. Marshall's Office, Fr. Widera obtained a six month permit for his car to enter Mexico on July 12, 2002, and crossed the border in Ciudad Juarez. Ten months later, on May 25, 2003, Mexican law enforcement officials located Fr. Widera in Mazatlan, Mexico. They took him to a room at the Vista Dorada Hotel for questioning. Later that afternoon, Fr. Widera jumped from the third floor of the hotel to his death. In addition to the Wisconsin charges, Fr. Widera was wanted on thirty three felony counts of child molestation in California at the time of his death. 18 ADOM057406 Additional investigation: West Allis Police Department Incident Report; H H H H | stated during my interview with him, that three or four years ago, two detectives from the West Allis Police Department contacted him. They questioned ^ H a b o u t the possibility that|j[^may have been sexually abused by Fr. Widera. ^^m stated he did not know how Ms name as a potential victim would have surfaced. A check with the West Allis Police Department found that there is a report on file regarding a sexual assault investigation involving Fr. Widera as a suspect. I obtained a copy of that report through open records. The report, Incident # H ^ H H * S ut e l d, 1st Degree Sexual Assault of a Child (by Priest). The ninety-one page report, which is a series of individual reports made during the investigation, is dated from April 24, 2002 through April 12, 2004. There is extensive blacking out of the names, ages, and addresses of the victims and what appears to be anyone related to the victims. This West Allis investigation was the basis for the Milwaukee District Attorney's Office to charge Fr. Widera with the four felony counts of Enticing A Child For Immoral Purposes and the five felony counts of Indecent Behavior With a Child, case number The report indicated that the offenses occurred between January 1, 1969 and September 1,1976, at the following locations: 1210 S. 61 st St, West Allis, WI (St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church and rectory); 6014 W. Madison St., West Allis, WI (St. Mary Help of Christians gymnasium); 1669-1673 S. 108* St., West Allis, WI (formerly the Tyrolean Towne House Inn); and at 2401 W. Wisconsin Av., Milwaukee, WI (formerly the Eagles Club). The West Allis sexual assault investigation began on April 24, 2002. A male victim came into the West Allis Police Department to report that Fr. Widera had sexually assaulted him. He reported that some of the sexual assaults which involved inappropriate touching occurred in 19 ADOM057407 Fr. Widera's bedroom at the rectory of St. Mary Help of Christians Parish, starting in early 1970; (page 11). It was also at the rectory that Fr. Widera first gave him a pornographic magazine to look at; (page 14). The reporting victim told detectives that Fr, Widera had a membership at the Eagles Club, and would often take him there to go swimming, especially between 1970 and 1972. He was sexually assaulted on some of those occasions; (pages 18-19). A second victim that West Allis detectives interviewed during the investigation reported being sexually abused by Fr. Widera while at a swimming pool. The victim stated, "He would rub his genitals against us - like a dog (humping)!" The victim also told detectives that Fr. Widera provided pornographic magazines to him. The report states, "The magazines showed graphic photos of nude women. WIDERA provided these magazines to [name blacked out] between January - March 1970 through May or June 1972"; (page 24). The second victim remembers going swirnrning at the Eagles Club with Fr. Widera, and remembers the sauna, but said he was never molested at the Eagles Club; (page 25). On page 30 of the West Allis police report is a heading titled, "Possible Additional Victims/Witnesses". The narrative states, "On 05-01-2002, [name blacked out] told me that he remembered the names of three altar boys that went on trips with them and might have also been victimized by Father WIDERA. They are: [names blacked out]". The next paragraph in the report is an interview the West Allis detectives conducted on 05-05-2002. The interview is with owife, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H Her first name was inadvertently not blacked out near the end of the interview. In addition, the detectives made a reference to an arrest and two restraining orders filed by priests or other church members, which is listed on CCAP under ^ ^ H name. Tt is apparent the detectives were trying to make contact with ^ ^ o b u t he was not living with at that time. | ^ H f o l d the detectives that [name blacked out] is a very devout 20 ADOM057408 person who was committed to God, and would sometimes get in trouble when he saw somebody or something in the Church that he did not think was right. She asked the detectives if they were there to investigate [name blacked out]. The detectives told ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ o t h a t they were investigating a priest. She stated, "Well that's funny. We (she and [name blacked out]) just talked on the phone the other day about the priest that abused [name blacked out]. He (the priest) was in the news", ^ ^ ^ ^ o w e n t on to tell the detectives that she first learned about the sexual abuse one or two years after they met. She didn't remember the priest's name, but recognized the name of Fr. Widera after the detectives mentioned it to her, ^ ^ ^ ^ W u r t h e r told the detectives that [name blacked out] did not give her a lot of details, but said Fr. Widera had introduced him to pornography when [name blacked out] was a young boy. ^^^^Breported that "[name blacked out] explained to her that there was a lot of hurt inside that he had to deal with through God. [Name blacked out] first worked to forgive Father WIDERA for the abuse but is still dealing with the abuse issue himself. It is apparent t h a t H B was the blacked out name on the report throughout the West Allis detectives' interview w i t h ^ ^ H B j j She further provided the detectives with a phone number where they could contact him. The next interview, on page 31 of the police report, took place on 05-08-2002. It is the statement of a victim/witness. Based on the location of this interview in the report, as well as, the" content of the interview, it is clear that ^ ^ was the person interviewed by the West Allis detectives. There is a sentence in the first paragraph that states, "[Name blacked out] is very religious and when I initially contacted him, he did not want to talk to me as he did not want to hurt his religion with any more abuse revelations". The next paragraph relates to his family. "He desperately wanted a father in his life. [Name blacked out] said that Father WIDERA was that father figure in his life for about one year. [Name blacked out] added that he only attended 21 ADOM057409 [blacked out] grade at ST MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS parish school because his mother moved the family after that". ^ ^ B talked about Fr. Widera's red and white Volkswagen bus and the smell of yeast from a certain section of the freeway. The report states, "This memory was special to [name blacked out] because Father WIDERA would place [name blacked out] on his lap and allow [name blacked out] to steer while driving in this area of the expressway". told the detectives that one time Fr. Widera took him to the Eagles Club to go swimming. "He (WIDERA) took his trunks off and swam around the pool naked. Then he took my trunks off and held me close to his body. He looked at my body and hugged me" indicated that it happened only once while swimming, but he remembered feeling very uncomfortable about it. The interview further indicated that Fr. Widera took ^ ^ f i n t o his bedroom at the rectory at St. Mary Help of Christians Parish, wherd^^Hwas exposed to pornography. "[Name blacked out] said that sometimes Father WIDERA would get out some Playboy and Penthouse magazines. Father would allow [name blacked out] to page through them on the bed and look at the pictures. [Name blacked out] told us that Father WIDERA would usually take his trousers off and lie on the bed next to [name blacked out]. WIDERA would watch [name blacked out] as [name blacked out] looked at the pictures in the magazines. [Name blacked out] thought that Father might have undressed him [name blacked out] down to his underwear too (when the magazines came out) but [name blacked out] was not certain. [Name blacked out] stated, 'I really didn't understand what he (WIDERA) was doing"'. H H t o l d the detectives that it didn't happen all the time, just once in awhile. During the interview, J ( | t a l k e d about the Florida trip that he went on with Fr. Widera. The report states, "[Name blacked out] told me that for the most part, Father WIDERA was very 22 ADOM057410 ,11 good to him and just had occasional incidents where he did things that made [name blacked out] uncomfortable. [Name blacked out] said that Father WIDERA even took him and another boy to Florida on vacation. [Name blacked out] estimated that the trip would have been taken in the summer of 1968 or 1969. [Name blacked out] told me that was die first time he had ever been to Florida. [Name blacked out] said mat Father would allow him to look at pornographic magazines at the rest stops but for the most part, Father seemed more interested in the other boy. [Name blacked out] does not remember that boy's name or anything about him - only that the other boy was older that he [name blacked out] was". There is another interview with an abuse victim on page 66 of the West Allis police report. That victim attended St. Mary Help of Christians Parish and spent time with Fr. Widera. The victim talked about going swimming with Fr. Widera, and of being tickled and touched inappropriately by Fr. Widera while the victim was naked. He further talked about going places with Fr. Widera, such as to his parent's house in South Milwaukee. The report also states, "[Name blacked out] told me that Father WIDERA had wanted to take him on a trip to Florida one summer but [name blacked out] dad said no right away. At the time [name blacked out] was disappointed that he could not go and did not understand why his father said no. To the best of [name blacked out] knowledge, his father never indicated or stated if he suspected WIDERA of any inappropriate conduct". There is a section towards the beginning of the West Allis police report entitled: CHARGING SYNOPSIS. It appears that a paragraph in that section of the report is a summary of the detectives' investigation relating t o ^ ^ ^ | The paragraph on page 7 states, "[Name blacked out] thought he was around [blacked out] or [blacked out] years old when he was sexually molested by WIDERA. [Name blacked out] estimated that the assaults occurred in 23 ADOM057411 ,11 1968 or 1969; however, both the [name blacked out] brothers recall [name blacked out] going on trips with them and Father WIDERA and [name blacked out] was in the [blacked out] so the assaults most likely occurred during the 1970-1971 school year, when [name blacked out] was [blacked out] years old. [Name blacked out] said that he witnessed Father WIDERA touch [name blacked out] genitals over [name blacked out] clothing inside the Sacristy after mass. Father WIDERA also provided pornographic magazines for [name blacked out] to look through while both he and WIDERA were lying on WIDERA's bed, partially unclothed in the Rectory. [Name blacked out] said that he remembered Father WIDERA took him swimming at THE EAGLES CLUB and removed [name blacked out] swim trunks. WIDERA held [name blacked out] naked body against his own in the pool". 24 ADOM057412 at the age of seven and a half years old. ^ H said after first grade, his family moved to the area ofo H H H H f f i H H t t r i e attended second and third grade at St. Hyacinth School, which is at 1414 W. Beefier St. ^ ^ H mother, ^ ^ ^ H said she was divorced in 1972 and moved to H H B B that same year, which would be consistent w i t h ^ H completing third grade. In the CHARGING SYNOPSIS section of the West Allis police report that appears to be related to le detective wrote that the assaults most likely occurred during the 1970-1971 school year. The detective appears to be basing that time frame on information she received from a different victim^^Hwould still have been in school at St. Mary Help of Christians School until June of 1970. He told the West Allis detectives that "Father WIDERA was a father figure in his life for about one year". A more accurate time frame for when the abuse occurred would most likely be from 1969 to 1970.^Hwould have been seven to eight years old. Fr. Widera was assigned to St. Mary Help of Christians Parish during those years. The investigation also showed: 25 ADOM057413 | said about three or four years ago, two detectives from the West Allis Police Department contacted him and questioned him about being sexually abused by Fr. Widerajm|did not know how they would have known that he was a victim. A check with the West Allis Police Department showed that on 05-08-02 two detectives did interview H H about sexual abuse by Fr. Widera. | ! name was given to them by another victim. 2. Isaid Fr. Widera exposed him to pornographic magazines on several occasions while m a bedroom at the rectory of St. Mary Help of Christians Parish, as well as, while traveling in Fr. Widera's Volkswagen bus. In 2002, at least two other people from St. Mary Help of Christian Parish told the West Allis detectives that Fr. Widera exposed them to pornographic magazines while at the rectory or in his Volkswagen bus. m said Fr. Widera would undress himself down to his underwear while he looked at the ines. H d o e s not remember, but he believes he stayed fully dressed. In 2002, Md the West Allis detectives that he thought Fr. Widera might have undressed him jown to his underwear too. said while on a swimming outing with Fr. Widera at the Eagles Club, theJEaeles ClubJFr. Widera hugged him from behind, and rubbed his naked body against H H f b o d y . H I said n e believed he had his own swimming trunks on during the incident. In 2002, he told the West Allisdetectives, that Fr. Widera was swimming naked, then took^^Htrunks off and held J////^ close to his body. At least three of the other people that the West Allis detectives interviewed said Fr. Widera had taken them swimming at the Eagles Club. 4. |said he went onjHripto t tonoa with Fr. Widera and another boywho was two or to Florida wiyyjr^wioera ana boy\ three yeas older than ^ H M His m o t h e r , ^ ^ U said that she l l e ^t H go on a trip to et H Florida with Fr. Widera. In 2 0 9 2 H H toidthe West Allis detectives that he went to Florida with Fr. Widera and an older boy. One of the other people the West Allis detectives interviewed said that he was asked to go to Florida by Fr. Widera, but his father wouldn't let him go. 5. H H s a i d he had a supernatural encounter on February 10, 1986, which is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. The.Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes is actually on February 11 ?\ [believes he was about twenty years old when he told his mother thathe had been _________________ ^^^^ abused o B I H i H f l H I ^ I V , y Fr. Widera. His mother,^^^H said^^Jnever told her that hewas abused by Fr. Widera until the last year^ScepTTor possibly bits and pieces. o H H s a i d , however, that as his mother, she knewsomething was wrong. She is not aware that he was ever abused by anyone else. | ^ | said he told his wife, ^ m | about the abuse. H B j j H saidBJjtold her about the abuse in the late 1980's or early 1990's. ( ^ ^ s i s t e T ^ ^ M s a i d sheremembers t n e abuse being talked about in the family when she was abouragnt or nine years old, which would have been around said she was bom in 1968, but heard about the abuse frorn^^H when she was about nine or ten years old. 26 ADOM057414 7. ^ ^ o j m o t h e r , his wife, and his s i s t e r ^ ^ J all said they believe t h a t ^ ^ B is telling the about being abused by Fr. Widera because he does not lie. m j s i s t e r , H H believes something definitely happened to him. 27 ADOM057415 trunks on during the incident at the Eagles Club, or if he was undressed down to his underwear while looking at the magazines in Fr. Widera's bedroom, but he was very young at the time. In fact, although the swimming incident made^^g feel uncomfortable, he said he did not realize it was wrong at the time because he was so young. In May of 2002, West Allis detectives contacted^Has a possible sexual assault victim, while conducting an investigation regarding Fr. Widera. They were led t o ^ H v n r o u S f l m interview with another victim. The West Allis detectives filed a report that contained numerous interviews from other victims or witnesses. Those interviews showed that Fr. Widera did provide pornographic magazines to young boys, he did take boys swimming at the Eagles Club, he did take boys on trips across the country, he did have a red Volkswagen bus, and he did touch boys inappropriately, both over their clothing and by skin to skin contact. The West Allis police report verifies that other young boys at St. Mary Help of Christians Parish were sexually abused by Fr. Widera in the same manner a s ^ H described. Inever talked to anyone about the sexual abuse in detail, until he was approached and questioned by the West Allis detectives in May of 2002. There is indication that his mother and sisters were aware of the sexual abuse in the 1970's. H H I W ] ^ e ' e a m e d about the abuse in the late 1980's or early I990's. ^ H does not have a close knit family, but they, along with his wife, believe he is telling the truth. 28 lis very religious. Some people believe that he takes his religion to the extreme. Nevertheless, H B ' S credible and appears to be sincere. The West Allis police report supports the allegation that^^Bwas sexually abused by Fr. Widera while at St. Mary Help of Christians Parish. Preponderance of the evidence is defined as: Is it more likely than not that the incident occurred? ^ ^ H allegation of sexual abuse meets that burden. It is more likely than not that I was sexually abused by Fr. Widera. 29 ADOM057417 WIDERA., SIEGFRIED P . 3/2/72 - telephone - requests -1 transfer. 7 / 3 1 / 7 3 - t e l e p h o n e p e r A r c h b i s h o p - t h a t S . Widera n e e d s t o b e immediately. transferred B / 1 4 / 7 3 - J ^ - e p h o n e p e r A r c h b i s h o p - t h a t S . Widera on 3 y e a r s p r o b a t i o n . S e e s Dr. fiBI fiEBS"' t w o *-i m e s a w e e k . May n o t r e t u r n t o a r e a of P o r t W a s h i n g t o n b y o r d e r of j u d g e . S t a y i n g w i t h p a r e n t s 7 6 2 - 7 0 9 2 . 8 / 1 5 / 7 3 - i n t e r v i e w w i t h F . P a u l u s - r e j e c t e d S . Widera a s A . P . a t S t . Mary, Elm G r o v e . 8 / 1 6 / 7 3 - t e l e p h o n e p e r J . W a l d b a u e r -- i n f o r m e d him of S . Widera b e i n g refused by P. Paulus. 8 / 2 2 / 7 3 - t e l e p h o n e p e r J . Emmtenegger - i n q u i r e d w h e t h e r S . Widera g o i n g S . P a p e i b o n . No. ' 8 / 3 0 / 7 3 - t e l e p h o n e CfWaldbauer t o S. Widera t o a s s u r e hint Board i s w o r k i n g on a n a s s i g n m e n t . to still 8 / 3 1 / 7 3 -- t e l e p h o n e p e r P . M p p e r t - h e and J . M. Murphy would l i k e t o S . W i d e r a p l a c e t o work b u t w i t h thetn n o t t a k e a n y o n e a w a y . offer ?* \co WIDEBA, SIEGFRIED -2- 9 / 6 / 7 3 - t e l e p h o n e p e r J . Waldbauer - t h a t S. Widera w i l l be h e l p i n g o u t a t S t . Andrew, D e l a v a n . 9 / 1 9 / 7 3 - t e l e p h o n e p e r E. Hanke - s a y s t o l i s t S . W i d e r a a s A . P . P r o Tent. 1 0 / 2 / 7 3 - t e l e p h o n e - S . W i d e r a w i l l b e a t D e l a v a n 3 o r 4 more w e e k s . 10/22/73 (TM) t e l e p h o n e p e r J . Rathke r e h e l p o u t - t o l d him t o c o n t a c t S. Widera h i m s e l f . 1 0 / 2 3 / 7 3 - t e l e p h o n e p e r F . Schmidt - r e q u e s t s S. Widera a s A . P . 1 0 / 2 9 / 7 3 - t e l e p h o n e - w i l l c a l l Tuesday r e w h e t h e r h e w i l l g o t o S t . C a t h e r i n e , Milwaukee. flHHseeras opposed t o S . Widera going with 11/2/73 - telephone - Dr. C. O ' B r i e n . J . T h e i s e n t o l d S . Widera w h y t h e B o a r d h a d s u g g e s t e d i t a n d W i d e r a f e e l s h e w a n t s to t a l k t o D r . flHHi a g a i n . A.lso t a l k e d t o J. Thompson, who s u g g e s t e d t h e f o l l o w i n g p a r i s h e s : Holy A p o s t l e s , S t . F r a n c e s C a b r i r v i , S t . M i c h a e l , B e a v e r Datn a n d S t . W i l l i a m , Waukesha. 1 1 / 5 / 7 3 - t e l e p h o n e - D r . H H H f e e l s C. O'Brien not a man for S. Widera to work with because he is a reformed alcoholic. Not dealing with just another transfer. Next step for S. Widera could be Waupun. Feels staying with E. Henke perhaps best for S. Widera. J . Theisen suggested possibility of T. Hickey. Dr. ^ H t h o u g h t that woulfl be o.k. too. 11/7/73 -- telephone - E. Henke open to keeping S. Widera. keep i t as i t i s now, on an unofficial b a s i s . Would like to ll/8/73~-telephone - S. Widera happy to stay on a t Delavan per J. Waldbauer ^ r - H M H H a l s o pleased. If situation changes they will l e t Board know. 1/30/74 -- telephone per J. Thompson - that S. Widera becoming too popular and posing threat to J. Kramer. 3/15/74 - telephone from parishioner, St. Andrew, Deaavan requests that S. Widera remain. 9/6/74 - telephone - J . Thompson - concerned about S. Widera's status. Also concerned about the deaf being taken care of. Ask's that J.J.W. call hitn next 11/7/74 - telephone - J. Thompson - check on status of S. Widera in Delavan, 5/6/75 - Personnel Board recommended that S. Widera be assigned to A.P., St. Andrew, Delavan. 5/19/75 - telephone - S. Widera - accepts A.p., St. Andrew, Delavan, but wants no publication in Herald Citizen- WIDERA., SIEGFRIED -3- 8 / 2 0 / 7 6 - t e l e p h o n e - E . Henke - i n f o r m e d t h a t S . W i d e r a h a s h a d a n i n c i d e n t " w i t h a n 1 1 y e a r o l d b o y a c o u p l e o f months a g o . Henke i s c o n c e r n e d t h a t t h e t a l k way b e c o m e v i c i o u s a g a i n s t him i n s u c h a s m a l l town b e c a u s e , news t r a v e l s fast. D. Weber knows a b o u t i t a n d i s a s k e d t o b e c o n s u l t e d . 8 / 2 0 / 7 6 - t e l e p h o n e - S . W i d e r a - p l a n s t o l e a v e S t . Andrew P a r i s h , D e l a v a n , c u i ^ m d a ^ ^ j i ^ . 2 3 ; h e p l a n s t o go t o M s b r o t h e r ^ s - j j J a c i e j ^ ^ | a g s Widera l ^ ^ S H r a S H ^ C o s t a Mesa, C a l i f o r n i a 92626 8 / 2 3 / 7 6 - t e l e p h o n e -- E, Henke - s a y s S . W i d e r a Milw., Wis. 53221. at 9 / 2 8 / 7 6 - t e l e p h o n e - Re. S . Widera - J L f i B H r e p o r t s t h a t Widera i s " h i d i n g out. o n t h e w e s t c o a s t " . Widera a s k s ( H M r i f ^ e should remain t h e r e . I----o r a i s e s q u e s t i o n t h a t Board may a s k him a b o u t d i r e c t i o n r e l a t i n g t o d e a l i n g s w i t h Widera. * 1 0 / 1 8 / 7 6 - t e l e p h o n e - S. W i d e r a - w o n d e r s w h a t i s a v a i l a b l e i f h e w e r e t o r e t u r n ; h e f e e l s t h a t h e may a s k f o r a l e a v e o f a b s e n c e o r work i n a C a l i f o r n i a parish. 1 1 / 1 6 / 7 6 ~ t e l e p h o n e - S. Widera - i s open t o g o i n g for t r e a t m e n t , j u s t aa l o n g a s i t w o u l d n o t b e a r e d u p l i c a t i o n o f w h a t h i s c o n t a c t w i t h H H H * 8 a n d *XSiS been. He wonders what f i n a n c i a l h e l p i s a v a i l a b l e f o r such c a r e . 1 1 / 1 9 / 7 6 - t e l e p h o n e - H ^ H B B (TM) ~ ^^s meeting w i t h S. Widera when he c a l l e d . , They a g r e e S i e g f r i e d should go on " s i c k l e a v e " and leave t h e area for a t l e a s t a y e a r of " s i c k l e a v e " w i t h ongoing p s y c h t h e r a p y . After t h a t titne, S i e g f r i e d c a n d e c i d e i f he w i s h e s t o e n t e r t h e a c t i v e m i n i s t r v a c r a i n and i f he d o e s , t o do s o o u t s i d e of t h e Milwaukee Archdiocese.* Dr. flHBwill P u t t h i s i n writin< t o t h e Board. He a s k s t h a t we cover h i s Blue Cross-Blue S h i e l d a s w e l l as t h e b e n e f i t s from t h e S t . Michael P r i e s t Fund t h a t a man on " s i c k l e a v e " i s e l i g i b l < for. 1 1 / 2 6 / 7 6 - I n t e r v i e w - S. Widera - i s c o n s i d e r i n g a move toward s i c k l e a v e , g o i n g t o C a l i f o r n i a and c o n t i n u i n g c o n s u l t a t i o n w i t h a p s y c h i a t r i s t a t UCLA. 1 2 / 3 / 7 6 - t e l e p h o n e -- S. Widera - p l a n s to s e e the Archbishop. 1 2 / 3 / 7 6 - t e l e p h o n e - Archbishop informs t h e Board t h a t ! S . Widera - w i l l spen< some time w i t h h i s p a r e n t s i n P l o r ^ a a n d t h e n go t o C a l i f o r n i a t o c o n t i n u e p s y c h o t h e r a p y w i t h t h e c o n t a c t of o H H ^ B T ? t ^ i e Archbishop p l a n s t o c o n t a c t Bishop Johnson of Orange to s e e i f t h e r e might be something a v a i l a b l e for Widera. 1 2 / 1 7 / 7 6 - telephone - Archbishop: p o s s i b i l i t y for S. Widera. has c a l l e d Bishop Johnson i n Orange about a 1/20/77 - t e l e p h o n e - W.E.C. - S. W i d e r a h a ^ ^ f a c u l ^ i e s a n i j ^ g s i d e n c e with $175 p e r month s a l a r y a t ^ ^ ^ i n ^ y a r i s h , flHHHHHHHH H H ' Buena Park, California 90621 wB&BUBfflm, e f f e c t i v e 1/12/77 on an i n d e f i n i t e time l i m i t WIDERA, SIEGFRIED -4- 3/25/77 - telephone - The Archbishop reports: (a) Appointment of S. Widera as A.P., St. Justin Martyr in Anaheim, Cal., effect. 4/11/77. 12/16/81 - corresp. - R. Sarapon reports that S. Widera is now excardinated from Archdiocese of Milw., and incardinated into Diocese of Orange, Ca., effective 11/23/81. OFFENSE NARRATIVE COHT. Port Police located subject 11:49 PM date. 7-1-75 at ll:50Am., 7-1-75 I arrived at the Port Washington Police Department; where I met with Ptm-fedg. I was advised that Mrs. C f l | i f V | ^ ^f||fll^ of ^ P ^ ^ H W S B H ^ j g ^HHBMBMMMWBMMlffll had come to their office after hearing stories that her son, H H S P H H w a s being forced to commit indecent acts by Fr. WIDERA, and that he was with him now. These acts, or some of the incidents, occurred on STU 57 in the area of the Village of Fredonia. Pta Haig supplied me with a copy of his original complaint. Mrs.JHBBBBHfc ber daughter, ^flMfc and 2 of her girlfiends accompanied me to the Sheriff's Office and at 12:05Am., 7-2-73 gave me written statements attached. Sgt Trombley was advised, and he in turn contacted Det. Hackbarth who interviewed EUR B B B B J M B H B I in the presence of his mother. at 12:50Am, date, I called Mrs,, ^BgBggBSti&BJNlSk alK3 a * ^ request she came to the Sheriff's Office in order to interview her sons _ who where with Fr. Widerat>olice when he was asked to come down to our office, after De^ngs&OKg^^^hfcma%leort o o , Thomas J. Sedlaeier Dep Shf ?-2~75~12:10 AM, I along with Officer Klopp'of the Port Washington PD questioned about any sexualact committed with Father Widera. He did admit thatthere had been acts committed by the Father- such as the Father playing with $$BS8&fr'Penxusan(* that he had been forced to commit acts of sodomy upong the Fathe These acts should have taken place in our County and Possibly-in Sheboygan Countj 1 then called Det. Hackbarth and had him come down to the office to assist in the interviewing of the4QBBBBSB88&boy and others involved as this could possibly covt over into other Counties.. Det. Hackbarth questioned the ^SSBSHBft 00 ^ anc* wrote down what he stated to him myself and Officer Klopp. This statement was read by his mother and then signed t In the meantime I had Officer Sedlmeier talked to the<4KBSHB&Dc0r' with their mother present and they gave him a statement, confirming what the boy told us. Det. Hackbarth, myself and Officer Klopp then que stioned Father Widera. Before o asking him any questions I gave him his statement of rights which he signed in fromt of myself and Officer Klopp. After talking to Father Widera for a considerable length of time he did admit thi he had played with a number of boys privates and that he had .allowed at least twe or theee boys to commit an act of sodomy on him. He stated that this was to help them in their curisoty about sex. These acts of s odomy were committed in Ozaukee County on STK 84, on 5TH 57 and possibly on CTH K . The acts of playing with the poys privates occurred in these sane areas and al so in the City of Port Washingtt and Sheboygan County as well as Milwaukee County. ubznhtted, B^?Z State of Wisconsin OCKET VOL.. ^ ^ B PA.G? N O . !N COUNTY COURT. B R A N C H 2. COUNTY APPEARANCES STATE OF WISCONSIN ^^f*;,,. <<'"<>- a p p e a r e d by James LaPointe, D i s t r i c t atty. -i?f><. oleod.Dt- a p p e a r e d i n p e r s o n a n d by A t t y . C h a r l e s P o l i d o r i .te. o r i>>tu*wc< ^ l A ri.mtBr ii'.. WIDERA |RAN j^^rEOFRTE^WI I Port Washington, Wisc&n^n co>>*rL<>***' 7/2/73 Robert W.Hackbarth 6/30/73 Section 9^'!.17 - Wisconsin StatutesSexual Perversion Robert W.Hackbarth oJ*. o r H*IUHH 7/2/73 rUA o ' *ccoit>> Guilty *t*m>>r>> wir>>.r***<< 7 / 2 / 7 3 - C r i m i n a l C o m p l a i n t f i l e d . Case c a l l e d a t 1 1 : 1 5 a . m . P l a i n t i f f a p p e a r e d by J a m e s L a P o i n t e , D i s t r i c t a t t y . D e f e n d a n t a p p e a r e d i n p e r s o n a n d by A t t y . C h a r l e s P o l i d o r i , 2922 W. F o r e s t Home Ave. M i l w a u k e e , Wi Phone number 6 7 2 - 0 1 0 0 , Complaint r e a d . Attorney for defendant presented statement t o the court. C o u r t a d v i s e d d e f e n d a n t o f maximum p e n a l t y i n this matter. M a t t e r r e t u r n a b l e on J u l y 16 3 1 9 7 3 a t 8:30 a . m . f o r e i t h e r s e t t i n g date for preliminary or waiving p r e l i m i n a r y . Atty. for defendant waived t h e s t a t u t o r y time f o r h o l d i n g t h e p r e l i m i n a r y . Defendant r e l e a s e d on h i s own r e c o g n i z a n c e . J u l y 16, 1973. Case c a l l e d a t 10:27a.m. P l a i n t i f f appeared by Joseph McCormack, a s s i s t a n t t o t h e d i s t r i c t a t t o r n e y . Ddendant appeared i n court i n person and by Attorney Cahrles P o l i d o r i . Defendants f a t h e r a l s o appeared. Defendant waived the preliminary h e a r i n g . Information f i l e d with t h e c o u r t . Defendant waived t h e reading of t h e i n f o n r a t i o n . Defendant entered a p l e a of g u i l t y . The court advised defendant of t h e maximum penalty i f found g u i l t y of such criiwa. The court questioned t h e defendant. The court w i l l accept defendants p l e a . Mr. MoCornack and Mr. P o l i d o r i p r e The court v d U withhold imposing any penalty a t tfis sented statements t o t h e c o u r t . time and ordered t h a t a pre-sentence i n v e s t i a a t i o n be hel&i. The court s e t t h i s matter for sentencing on Monday, August 1 3 , 1973 a t 4:00 p.m. August 13, 1973. Case called a t 4:00 p.m. P l a i n t i f f appeared by James M. LaPointe, D i s t r i c t Attorney. Defendant appeared i n c o u r t i i person and by h i s attorney Charles P o l i d e r i . Mr. Sobert Eathbum probation agent appeared i n person. Mr. LaPointe presented a motion t o t h e court t o amend t h e complaint t o a l l e g e the maximm penalty provided for t h i s v i o l a t i o n , to-wit: maxlmm p e n a l t y of n o t more than five (5) years imprisonment o r n o t more than $500.00 fine o r both, bfation granted by the c o u r t . Mr. LaPointe recaimends a term of 5 years be imposed and sentence stayed and be placed on probaion f o r a p e r i o d of five (5) y e a r s . Mr. P o l i d e r i presents a statement t o t h e cdurt The court p l a c e s defendant on probation f o r a p e r i o d of t h r e e (3) years and defendant i s t o continue h i s program with Dr. jjJIHH- September 16, 1976. Notice of Case Status Change filed. Defendant discharged 8-13-76. 1+ 5UKT COSTS- 3UCf rccs troRTEHS r r c << _ IYNESS r?e<< JBORS rcrs_ *>O ^ - r O ^ - & . V7- P-536 \ COUNTY COUNTY COURT STATE" OF WISCONSIN STATE OF WISCONSIN, -vsFRANK SIEGFRIED WIDERA o'oo'/> Port Washington,Wisconsin CRIMINAL COMPLAINT Defendant. 12-20-1940 STATE OF WISCONSIN SS. OZAUKEE COUNTY , ROBERT W. HACKBARTH, upon Information and^belief _being first 1973 3une duly sworn, on oath says that on the 30thday of in the County of Ozaukee, Wisconsin, FRANK- SlESFftlED WIDERA f e l o n i o u s l y conroltted an a c t of Ae xu aal l ^ y i r u v ii fti ic*.,** i>o\\n involving t h e s ct u g at at * id-Midera and t h e mouthU' sex organ of w H ' """ ^' * ? ITOflWlY, WISC08SH FILED did of 944.17 of the'Wisconsin S t a t u t e s Contrary to S e c t . the peace and dign.ity of the S t a t e of Wisconsin. and a g a i n s t The b a s i s for complainant's charge of such offense is the w r i t t e n r e p o r t of Sgt. Eugene Trotjibiey of t h e Ozaukee County S h e r i f f ' s Dept. whom complainant . b e l i e v e s to be r e l i a b l e t h a t he i n v e s t i g a t e d a complaint of sexual p e r v e r s i o n by ' , o o .' " ' , Port Washington, Wis. t h a t her son had been involved in Immoral a c t s with one Frank S i e g f r i e d Widera and upon I n v e s t i g a t i o n of O f f i c e r Klopp of the Port Washington P o l i c e Dept. who obtained a statement from dated July 2 , 1973 and upon the statement given t o t h e comp l a i n a n t a t 1:00 a.m. on July 2 , 1973 t h a t - , Frank S i e g f r i e d Widera, ' and ... o went from Port Washington to Random Lake on S a t . June 30 and in the course oj (see r e v e r s e s i d e _ '"^?^bs^J&~ Subscribed and sworn to before roe t h i s J2nd day of July .19...73_ Approved for District filing Attorney SUMMONS THE STATE OF WISCONSIN TO SAID DEFENDANT: A c o m p l a i n t , copy of which i s a t t a c h e d , having been filed with me accusing the defendant of committing the crime of_ contrary to Sect. ^ _W1s. S t a t s . , and I having found t h a t probable cause e x i s t s t h a t the crime was committed by the defendant a r e , t h e r e f o r e , summoned t o apoear before ^ ^ You, Branch of the Court of Ozaukee County a t the courthouse in the City of Port Washington to answer said complaint on . t 19 , at noon, and in case of vour failure to appear, a o ' c l o c k in the STATE OF WISCONSIN warrant for your arrest will be issued. ".IfcRKUi-lGOURTS State of Wisconsin,! IComty Court, .County JUDGMENT OF GOHVICTIOH, SENTENCE WITHHELD, PROBATION ORDERED S T A T E O F WISCONSIN, Plaintiff, Frank Siegfried Widera File No% Defendant. The defendant, following his plea of was found guilty of the crime (>>) of ?y&L?r!-- (nolo contender*} (not cuUif w<<<< t>>l<d) did feloniously camrLtted an act of ssxual gratification involving the sex organ of Frank Siegfried Widera and the irouth of committed in this County on June ..30, 191.1 ,,* in violation of Sec._ W..17 . Stats.; and On Angrtgr 1 ^ j 197.3 , the Court intuited of the defendant why Sentence should not be pronounced, and gave the Plaintiff's Attorney, the defendant and his attorney an opportunity to be heard; and Upon all the files, tecotds, and proceedings, the Court found the defendant eligible fot probation patsaant to the provisions of Section 973.09, Stats,, and pronounced Judgment and directed it be reduced to writing as follows: "IT IS ADJUDGED that the defendant is convicted as found guilty, and sentence Is withheld, and the defendant is placed on piobation for the period of. ttlTRfi Q ) y g g S , in the custody and control of the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services, subject to its rules and orders, and subject to making payments for Support $ _, Costs S, Restitution S in the manner prescribed by the Department and subject to the following conditions r.wtagu De?i >e<*fo<>nt'>> Promotion Que>>Uoiu>><>r (Form C-3<<) t o : DIVISION O F CORRECTIONS, P . O . B o x 6 << 9 , K<<><...VTTgfflJL--- No - --$m$ek. hereinafter referred to as the aforesaid, violated Statutes of. the State of Wisconsin, was convicted, arid sentenced. It further appearing t h a t the aforesaid has satisfied all judgments of conviction against him to date; Now, therefore, it is ordered t h a t effective A i a i a t . TSi_lS7j5 t 10 * "^ o r e s aid be, and hereby- is, discharged. Any civil rights lost as result of such judgments of conviction are restored by virtue of this discharge, .under the provisions of nection 67.078 of the Statutes of the State of Wisconsin. W5SCONS1H DEFT. OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES Date __fiiifi^S49??_,, :,,,, Llil^J^L^^J A U y n K, m.oUt?. Admmistriior AUynii a i o l << X f i Adn ErtVisrtm of Corrections / > \ f o WI,. P.BL<<( H>>llk >l>' C*rr<>( o-..(TM)0-n ' g-3-93,265 Terralnatlen Number NOTICE OF CASE STATUS CHANGE THIS IS TO INFORM YOU THAT THE CASE OF Frank Siagfriod Wider* , NO. Prob. 57475-^- w*m WAS RECEIVED FOR OUR SUPERVISION OK " WAS discharged QN 8-JL>-76 .'.;o AUGiS!976 t. COPIES TO: 2010* - j : : ,-.,:..-....o .E~l n J 8-13-73 . <>>* c-'s: 'o".':> ' . " ' . T I T VICAS FOIL PRIEST PERSONNEL 223." IVFORMATtOSAt MATTERS 1165. Wideta, S i e g f r i e d H e h a ^ i u s t b e e n t r a n s f e r r e d t o S t . Edward's R e c t o r y , BaT,a flRHHHB* ?oint, CaliEornia92629. Telephone: - (Milwaukee telephone number: ^^QJQ) Our conversation was a follow-up "to a discussion we had at the golf course on Monday. The Bishop of Orange has invited hia to seek incardinatloti and he wanted to know .what procedure there vould be. I t i s aow approximately five years that he has been gone from the diocese following psychological . problems. He states that he has not received any further professional help in California but he intends to do so in the near future. H e said that he has experienced no personal problems since he has been in California. He likes i t there and seems to be getting along v e i l with the p r i e s t s and the people of the diocese. He has a brother living very near to his rectory with w o he associates at least hm once a week. The rest of his family has s p l i t up and are in various parts of the country. Only one brother remains here in Milwaukee. I told him that I wanted to discuss this further with the Archbishop and the Personnel Board b< o RTV Siegfried Widera On July 27, 1993 I spoke with Sr. Rose Steinfast who communicated aome caution about Siegfried's current status in the Diocese of Orange, especially ?n view of the present historical review. RJS Select Widera Sexual Abuse Intake Reports 10/3/02 Sexual Abuse Intake Report alleging abuse by Widera at St. Mary's and various locations around Wisconsin from 1969-1976 when the survivor was 9-16 years old. Widera touched the survivor's genitals and put his genitals between the survivor's legs and masturbated. 7/31/03 Sexual Abuse Intake Report alleging abuse by Widera at St. Mary's in 1971-1972 when the survivor was 11-12 years old. Widera hugged her, kissed her, and forced her to undress. On several occasions Widera forced her to touch his penis and rubbed her hand on his penis until he ejaculated. 12/22/03 Sexual Abuse Intake Report alleging abuse by Widera at St. Mary's in 1969-1970 when the survivor was 8-9 years old. Widera touched the survivor's genitals on a number of occasions. 4/29/04 Sexual Abuse Intake Report alleging abuse by Widera at St. Mary's in 1973 when the survivor was 8 years old. Widera forced the survivor to put his mouth on Widera's penis and Widera also touched the survivor's penis. The abuse took place a number of times in the rectory, Widera's car, and at St. Mary's. Says there were other boys in the neighborhood who were molested by Widera. Archdiocese will provide financial assistance with therapy and the survivor will proceed with mediation. 7/7/05 Sexual Abuse Intake Report alleging abuse by Widera while he was at St. Mary's in Port Washington, WI in 1971-1973 when the survivor was approximately 1113 years old. Widera touched and rubbed the survivor's buttocks and he locked the survivor in a dark room with other girls and touched the survivor's chest. ADOM123899