Centralized Location for Documentation of Father David Morrier

Documentation previously published can be accessed here.

CN: sexual, spiritual, and physical abuse

Steubenville Police Department Narrative Report which includes: victim's report, supplemental report of witnesses during the deliverance ministry at Franciscan University of Steubenville.

A supplemental report of witnesses from university staff spoken to during the investigation, supplemental report of witnesses in the clergy regarding the investigation at Franciscan University

A supplemental report as to subjects unable to be interviewed regarding the deliverance ministry of XXX at Franciscan University, a supplement of investigator notes regarding terminology and practices used in the deliverance ministry conducted by Fr. David Morrier

According to this report, these supplements were intended to provide context for files prosecutor in the digital case file. There are five files listed:

The first file contains a short three-page excerpt from a "mind control manual." Morrier obtained this manual during a training session in Pittsburgh. Records confirm Morrier's attendance and on He wrote, "to report to Father Scanlan"

The second file contains a written copy of notes from an approximately six hour session by Morrier in which he talks to the different "parts" of the victim whom he believes is divided into three parts

The third file contains a copy of an intake questionnaire located in the diocese of Steubenville. This document was created as a request for assistance to the diocese of Pittsburgh, that Father Scanlan after the exorcisms he was performing were not working

The fourth file contains a string of emails where Morrier, Loizzo, and other members of the group were "hiding" X due to their belief that she was going to be abducted and ritually sacrificed

The fifth file contains the notes and documentation between counselor Joe Loizzo and Father Richard Davis regarding paying Ms. X to obtain a release of liability, while in the opinion of Loizzo she was suicidal

This document was provided to me by a confidential source when they provided me the lawsuit draft in which they themselves were implicated

I personally redacted this document in order to protect the identities of innocent persons.

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On 3/11, Father David Morrier, TOR, pled guilty to one count of sexual battery. Franciscan University claimed they had no idea what Morrier was up to. I was provided a copy of the lawsuit by someone (not the victim) involved.

University President Father Dave Pivonka, chaplain Father Shawn Roberson, then-Minister Provincial Father Richard Davis, and Father Michael Scanlan, now-deceased former president and chancellor of Franciscan University knew that Morrier was conducting these deliverance sessions.

According to the lawsuit, Father Michael Scanlan was Morrier's mentor and participated in several of these sessions. When the victim told Scanlan that Morrier was raping her, Scanlan told her to practice "emotional chastity."

According to the lawsuit, when the victim told Father Pivonka in 2011 that she was being subjected to violent exorcisms, he merely said, "I'll pray for you."

According to the lawsuit, when the victim begged Father Shawn Roberson to intervene, he stopped her from continuing to tell him about being sexually abused and told her that "gossip is a sin."

According to the lawsuit, the victim became pregnant as a result of one of Morrier's rapes. Morrier forced her to have an abortion. Morrier blamed the pregnancy on a demon he called, "Father Robert."

According to the lawsuit, Father Richard Davis told the victim she should feel guilt for her own participation in her abuse.

According to the lawsuit, Morrier compelled the victim to recite graphic details of her childhood abuse "while participants forcibly restrained....sprayed holy water on her and placed a crucifix up her T-shirt to lay against her bare skin."

Multiple current faculty and staff participated in these deliverance sessions as restrainers. Some used gallon jugs of holy water to soak the victim.

This lawsuit alleges a myriad of serious crimes including sexual battery, insurance fraud, trafficking in persons, money laundering, and kidnapping.

When asked for a comment the victim said “I cannot comment, the case has been settled confidentially out of court." When asked why the source wanted the information released, they stated, "The truth needs to be known because we planned for her not to live, but she stayed alive. We failed her.”

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Originally, the following was a series of tweets.

These documents supplement the police investigation and lawsuit draft I previously disseminated regarding @FranciscanU and the case against Fr. David Morrier. While several have speculated that the victim in this case provided the documents, she is not the source.

I have redacted these documents to protect her identity as well as the identity of several innocent parties. Additionally, out of respect for the dignity of the victim and her own right to privacy, I have redacted several details.

This document is the first in chronological order of many documents related to the case against convicted sex offender Father David Morrier. It details the exorcisms conducted by Father Michael Scanlan, (deceased) Father David Morrier, (convicted Tier 3 sex offender) and include the recommendations of Joseph Loizzo, then-director of Franciscan University’s Wellness Center.

This second document dated 11/713 is a letter from Joe Loizzo to Fr. Richard Davis expressing his concerns regarding Morrier and the victim and her experience under Morrier’s deliverance sessions. Davis was the head of the province at the time.

These handwritten notes from Joe Loizzo dated 3/2/2015 are from a meeting with Loizzo, Davis, and the victim. “Ended pregnancy in Winter 2012” - which confirms police report statement. Morrier made her confess to seducing him, according to this note. While Davis acknowledged that Morrier did sexually assault victim, Loizzo’s handwritten notes state “He [Davis] needs to figure who will replace Morrier and how to do it quietly without attracting attention. Their normal reassignment is coming up.”

At this time, Morrier is already stationed in Texas. According to public Facebook posts from St. Maria Goretti's parish, Morrier was honored at a going away party on March 22, 2015, twenty days after Fr. Davis acknowledged that Morrier had raped the victim. These exchanges, dated 4/29/2015 indicate that Father Richard Davis asked Brother John Paul, a fellow member of the Third Order Regular to draft a check for $5,000 to Joe Loizzo, the victim’s therapist.

They said they would continue to cut checks from the friary account in order to fund the victim. Loizzo notes in a communication dated July 24, 2015, that this arrangement is uncomfortable and is “putting her [the victim] in a desperate situation.”

August 12, 2015, Loizzo again drafts a letter to Davis and copies both David Schmiesing, then vice-president of student life and Father Sean Sheridan, then-president of the University, further expressing his concerns about the safety of Morrier's victim. Loizzo is concerned that she is suicidal and fully acknowledges that Morrier sexually assaulted her between 2010-2012 and that a verbal agreement was offered to pay for the victim’s last year of graduate school.

This was offered March, 2015, after Loizzo reported to the Provincial Council that the claims of sexual assault were credible in his professional opinion.

August 20, 2015, Fr. Richard Davis signs a Release of All Claims Agreement with the victim. As noted in the document with the email exchanges, Fr. Davis refused to allow anyone other than Brother John Paul and victim to attend this meeting.

Franciscan University's public statements on this case continue to insist that they were completely unaware of any wrongdoing.