Spokane, Wash., Apr 29, 2019 / 14:20 pm
Gonzaga University students were hired to serve as aides at an on-campus retirement home in which lived several priests accused of sexual abuse.
Between 2000 and 2015, students at the university were hired for positions in food service, maintenance, gardening, and direct engagement with residents in the Jesuit retirement home, Cardinal Bea House, at which at least 20 Jesuit priests accused of sexual abuse and misconduct were sent to live, according to the Spokane Spokesman-Review.
Some student-workers were assigned to accompany retired Jesuits on errands during the course of their employment.
The students in food service positions were hired through the university's employment office. The rest were hired directly by the Jesuit province that had assigned the accused priests to residence at Bea House.