Raum, Blair (Fr.)

Father Blair Raum was ordained on May 15, 1971. In 2004, a survivor reported that Raum sexually abused her in the early 1970s when she was sixteen or seventeen. The abuse consisted of fondling. In 2022, a second survivor reported that Raum abused him on three or four occasions in a similar manner in 1971. Raum is reported to have groomed two teenage girls, whom he later had sexual relationships with as adults.

The Maryland Attorney General’s report states that:

“Although the records of the Archdiocese do not reflect that it received any reports of sexual abuse by Raum prior to his death, the Archdiocese did receive reports, beginning in 1988 or possibly earlier, that Raum, as the pastor at St. Patrick’s in Baltimore, refused to confront an influential parishioner who was alleged to have maintained inappropriate relationships with numerous children in the parish, to have taken pictures of children while they were changing clothes on a parish retreat, and to have been physically abusive to some of the children.”

Blair Raum died on May 31, 2003.