Barry Edmund Ryan (born January 23, 1948) is an American former Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to repeatedly molesting a six-year-old boy, for which he was sentenced to two years in prison.

Biography

After his ordination in 1976, Ryan worked in parishes in Brooklyn, New York before commissioning as a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force in 1984. He was suspended from the priesthood in 1995 after allegations of improper sexual conduct while he had been stationed at Mobile, Alabama. Ryan was suspended from his priestly duties. Shortly afterwards, between May and October 2003, he forced a six-year-old boy to perform oral sex upon him at the boy's family home in Long Island.

In his written confession, Ryan said he received inpatient treatment for pedophilia, depression and alcoholism at Saint Luke Institute, a psychiatric hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland in 2004. Ryan currently resides in Dittmer, Missouri, at the Vianney Renewal Center.

See also

  • Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal
  • Roman Catholic priests accused of sex offenses
  • Crimen sollicitationis

References

  • Barry Ryan's entry at New York Sex Offender Registry
  • Barry Ryan's entry at Missouri Sex Offender Registry
  • Abuse Profile , offender.fdle.state.fl.us