Former priest Edmundo Paredes made headlines when he fled town in 2018 after being accused of molesting three boys and financial theft at St. Cecilia Catholic Church in Oak Cliff.

After the accusations came out, the Bishop of Dallas vowed to name Dallas priests accused of sexually abusing children. In a public letter released Thursday, Bishop Edward J. Burns writes that a group of former law-enforcement officers investigated 2,424 priests who have served in the diocese since 1950.

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“Those investigators identified files which contained credible allegations of the sexual abuse of minors,” he writes. “The Diocesan Review Board, which includes local experts in law enforcement, clinical psychology, law, and medicine, then reviewed those allegations.”

The dioceses of Dallas and Fort Worth released the names of 31 priests who have been credibly accused. Three of them have served in Lake Highlands at St. Patrick Catholic Church. They are: Michael Flanagan, William Hughes and Richard Johnson.

Flanagan’s assignments prior to St. Patrick include Christ the King Church and Sacred Heart Cathedral, as well as churches in Sherman, Corsicana, Arlington, Plano and Fort Worth. He was removed in 1999, retired and died in 2008.

Hughes’ previous assignments include Holy Spirit in Duncanville and St. Luke in Irving. He was ordained in 1982 and removed in 1989.

Johnson was chancellor of the Diocese of Dallas and chaplain at SMU Newman Center. He served at eight churches throughout North Texas before being removed and retiring in 2006. He died in 2016.

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