John Bollard (born 1965) is a former seminarian who filed a lawsuit in a federal United States court against the California Province of the Society of Jesus and four other defendants for sexual harassment.
After spending two years in the seminary, Bollard left, returning to Bakersfield to complete his Bachelor of Philosophy degree at California State University.
He also worked in an East Los Angeles juvenile hall, a shelter for battered women and a convalescent hospital; four years of Bollard’s training were spent teaching philosophy and ethics at a Jesuit Preparatory School in Northern California.
The claim drew widespread local and national media attention, culminating in the form of a lead story on the CBS program 60 Minutes.
On the program, Bollard alleged that he repeatedly found himself on the deflecting end of one physical advance or another; even regularly receiving pornographic cards and notes signed by his mentors and teachers.