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Nebraska — The Attorney General's Report (2021)

After a three-year investigation of all three Nebraska dioceses, the Attorney General reported credible allegations against 57 church officials and documented 258 victims — a count the report itself says is incomplete.

Issuing office
Office of the Nebraska Attorney General (Doug Peterson)
Report
Report on Clergy Sexual Abuse
Released
November 4, 2021
Scope
All three Nebraska dioceses — Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island; the 1930s–2010s
Headline figures
57 church officials credibly accused; 258 documented victims
Posture
Attorney General credible-allegation determinations, from named individual case summaries

The investigation

Nebraska’s report covers an entire state. Over a three-year investigation, the Office of the Nebraska Attorney General examined all three of the state’s Catholic dioceses: the Archdiocese of Omaha, the Diocese of Lincoln, and the Diocese of Grand Island. The result, the Report on Clergy Sexual Abuse, was released on November 4, 2021, and runs to 182 pages.

The report does not present its names as a single appendix table. Instead, it publishes them as 58 individual case summaries, each naming one official and setting out the substantiated case against him. Those 58 summaries cover 57 unique people. The one duplicate is a priest the report itself flags as named in both the Lincoln and Omaha sections; in this archive he is entered once, with both dioceses recorded, so that the roster holds at the Attorney General’s stated total rather than inflating it to 58. He is not singled out by name on this page.

Read with the other state reports gathered in The Pattern, Nebraska’s is among the most self-contained in this archive’s series: a stated total, a set of named summaries that reconciles to it exactly, and a criminal conclusion the report does not soften.

What the report found

The Attorney General reported credible allegations against 57 church officials: 51 priests, 4 deacons, and 2 teachers. The two teachers are part of the count because the Attorney General’s own total includes them.

Against those 57 officials, the report documented 258 victims, spanning the 1930s through the 2010s. By diocese, the documented victims were Omaha 158, Lincoln 97, and Grand Island 3.

The report is explicit that 258 is a floor, not a total. The Attorney General’s own undercount caveat, quoted verbatim, is:

"the files we reviewed most certainly do not include all victims."

That sentence governs how every figure on this page should be read. The 258 are the victims the reviewed files documented. The report itself says the files do not include all victims, so no figure here is presented as the full measure of abuse in Nebraska’s dioceses.

Criminal posture

No prosecutions followed from this investigation — not because the allegations were unsubstantiated, but because of time. The statute of limitations barred every case but one, and that one case was declined by the victim.

That is the report’s criminal posture as it states it, and this page states it the same way: zero prosecutions were possible. The absence of charges in Nebraska is a limitations outcome, recorded alongside substantiated case summaries, and it should never be read as an absence of findings.

In this archive

Most of the 57 officials were already in the Directory from the Omaha and Lincoln diocesan lists, and their entries are carried with the Attorney General’s report as a source. The report’s remaining names stand at Tier 2, sourced to the report itself.

One Nebraska diocese stands apart. Grand Island publishes no diocesan list, so for its one rostered official the Attorney General’s report is the only official record — there is no diocesan list entry for him anywhere in this archive, and the report alone carries his name into the record.

The boundary of the roster is equally deliberate. The report’s narrative names some officials only as criticized for their handling of cases. Those officials are not carried in this archive as accused. The roster is the 57 summary subjects only — the men against whom the report published individual substantiated case summaries — and no one is added to it from narrative criticism alone.

Sources

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