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Alaska Women Also Allege Abuse

November 19, 2005 | By William Lobdell

By William Lobdell, Times Staff Writer
From: LA Times

STEBBINS, Alaska — Joseph Lundowski is not the only Catholic missionary accused of molesting Eskimo children on St. Michael Island during the 1960s and '70s.

Four Alaska native women alleged in a lawsuit filed earlier this year that Anton Smario sexually abused them as young girls in Stebbins and St. Michael parishes.

Now 84, Smario denies any sexual misconduct, although he said he had been naked in front of the girls who came to his catechism classes.

Smario and Lundowski, who is accused of molesting 40 Eskimo boys, lived in the vill...

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Los Angeles Times

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November 19, 2005

Missionary's Dark Legacy

November 19, 2005 | By William Lobdell

Two remote Alaska villages are still reeling from a Catholic volunteer's sojourn three decades ago, when he allegedly molested nearly every Eskimo boy in the parishes..

By William Lobdell, Times Staff Writer
From: LA Times

ST. MICHAEL, Alaska — Peter "Packy" Kobuk has to walk past the old Catholic church to get almost anywhere. To fill a drum of heating oil. To take his children to school. To wash his clothes at the only laundromat in this Eskimo village of 370.

"I think about burning it down, but I have to block that out," says Kobuk, 46. "It all comes back to me right away each time I h...

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Los Angeles Times

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Two remote Alaska villages are still reeling from a Catholic volunteer's sojourn three decades ago, when he allegedly molested nearly every Eskimo boy in the parishes

Date Posted:

November 19, 2005