I-Team: Archdiocese response to accused priest was 'absurd' and 'stupid,' prosecutor says

Butler County Prosecutor Mike Gmoser blasted the Archdiocese of Cincinnati on Wednesday for its admitted failure to actively monitor a priest repeatedly accused of inappropriate behavior with teenage boys. "That sort of falls into the absurd category," Gmoser said from his Hamilton office. "Absurd -- or how about stupid?" Gmoser said he told the Archdiocese in September 2018 that Father Geoff Drew, the Pastor of St. Ignatius Loyola Paris, should be monitored based on allegations that Drew touched and communicated with teenage boys in a sexually suggestive manner.