Richard Chung

Male, Person

1951 –

66

Who is Richard Chung?

Richard Chung, O.S.B., was an American Benedictine monk, priest and schoolteacher, best known for his suicide after the launching of a police investigation into Chung's possible sexual abuse of a boy at Catholic high school in Colorado Springs. Chung was further implicated in sexual misconduct in a 2004 civil lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pueblo and the Benedictine Order by a man claiming to have experienced abuse by Chung at a Benedictine-run boarding school in CaƱon City, Colorado during 1982.

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1951

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on July 23, 2013

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