[2] Henry Groomer, another Catholic clergyman who was accused of sex abuse, committed suicide in 2017 after being served with a lawsuit.
[2] In 2004, Wayland Brown was dismissed from priesthood and afterwards spent five years in prison for sex abuse in Maryland.
[3][4] In October, 2009, the diocese of Savannah paid $4.24 million to settle a lawsuit which alleged that bishop Raymond W. Lessard allowed a priest named Wayland Brown to work in the diocese when Lessard knew that Brown was a serial child molester who posed a danger to children.
[5] According to a Georgia sheriff's sergeant, Lessard refused to cooperate in a sex-abuse investigation of Brown in 1986.
[3] In 2018, Brown was convicted in South Carolina for his other two child rapes and received a sentence of 20 years in prison.