New Orleans' archdiocese adds priest to credibly accused list after almost 2 decades of allegations

When the Archdiocese of New Orleans issued a list two years ago that included dozens of clergymen credibly accused of sexual abuse, Mike Brandner Sr.’s heart sank.
Brandner’s late brother, Scot, had a trove of love letters sent to him by a former New Orleans priest, Brian Highfill, in his desk drawer when he died. The letters started arriving in the early 1980s, when Scot was 17 and in high school, and because Scot had known Highfill since he was 10, Mike Brandner feared for what could have happened when Scot was a minor. Months before the list came out, Brandner had started pushing Archbishop Gregory Aymond to put Highfill on it.
But Highfill wasn’t included.
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