Kuhl, Thomas (Deacon)

Thomas Kuhl was ordained as a permanent deacon in 1988. In February 2006, a survivor contacted the Archdiocese to report that Deacon Thomas Kuhl and Eric Price (another abuser listed here) sexually abused him in the mid-1990s from the age of fourteen to the age of sixteen. The abuse consisted of anal and oral rape. The survivor attended Our Lady of Pompei and believed others were abused. Kuhl was arrested in the mid-1990s for soliciting an undercover police officer, though the charges were later dropped under suspicious conditions. In 2009, the Archdiocese settled with the survivor.

In 2011, a man reported that Kuhl sexually abused him from 1995 to 2005, beginning when he was fifteen. The abuse consisted of oral rape and inappropriate touching. In 2015, Pope Francis dismissed Kuhl from the clerical state, and Kuhl took a position as a deacon in the Presbyterian Church and later died in 2015. Neither Kuhl nor Price has been listed as credibly accused by the Archdiocese; to date, the Archdiocese has only included clergy (not including deacons) on the credibly accused list.