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New Orleans priest accused of abusing children in deaf community dies from apparent fall aged 87
Archdiocese knew of allegations against Gerard Joseph ‘Jerry’ Howell for 40 years but continued to support him A New Orleans Catholic priest whose prolific sexual abuse of children in the local deaf community was known for at least four decades by the city’s archdiocese without meaningful consequence has died after evidently falling in his Texas apartment. Gerard Joseph “Jerry” Howell, 87, was found dead at about 5pm on 8 September by Austin police department officers who were responding to a w…
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