If you were a student, a patient or a kid in the pews under Father Arthur Long, we believe you.
A Jesuit, ordained in 1955. Loyola Blakefield, Loyola College, Good Samaritan and Mercy hospitals in Baltimore; twelve years at Geisinger in Danville, Pennsylvania. In 1987 he told a young woman he'd had relations with "four or five" girls since Baltimore, and the Diocese of Harrisburg wrote it down. Thirty-one years later a Pennsylvania grand jury printed the file. He died in 2004, never charged. Who can still be asked to answer, and where, is what this page is about.
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- He was the hospital chaplain, not your teacher. The girls in the Harrisburg file met him at a medical center and a convent, not a classroom. The place doesn't decide anything.
- It was Pennsylvania, not Maryland. Danville, Geisinger, the Villa. Different state, different rules, and a lawyer sorts out which ones reach you. Say so in the questions above and let that be the lawyer's problem.
- Maybe you were an adult by then, 18 or 19 or 21, and you've assumed that closes it. The two women who went to Father McAndrew in 1987 were 21 and 18. The law does treat an adult differently; we won't pretend otherwise. Twenty minutes with a lawyer is still worth having.
- You never told anyone, or you told a nun, or a priest, and it went into a drawer. That is exactly what the file shows happening in Danville between August 1987 and January 1988.
- He is dead, and was never charged. The people a lawyer would look at are the school, the college, the hospitals, the Jesuit order and, behind a bankruptcy door, the Archdiocese of Baltimore. They are all still here.
- You are asking for a sister, a mother, a friend who was one of his and can't do this herself. Reach out anyway. There's a spot in the questions above for exactly that.
Father Arthur Long: what the public record says, and when
None of what follows is ours. It is the Diocese of Harrisburg's file as the Pennsylvania grand jury printed it in 2018, the Archdiocese of Baltimore's list, the Jesuits' list and the Maryland Attorney General's report, and every line links. Long was never charged with a crime. Where he is quoted, the words are the grand jury's, taken from the Diocese's records. A list is that list's finding. The word for the rest is allegation.
1955 to 1974
Ordained in 1955. Where he was in Baltimore we take from the Archdiocese of Baltimore's list, which has him at Loyola Blakefield High School, 1957 to 1963, and at Loyola College, 1968 to 1974, with a year at Good Samaritan Hospital, 1969 to 1970, in the middle of that; the Jesuits' own list adds the Maryland Training School for Boys, 1968 to 1969. The Archdiocese's entry opens: "Father Arthur Long admitted multiple instances of sexual abuse." Archdiocese of Baltimore, List of Priests and Brothers Accused of Child Sexual Abuse.
November 1974 to August 1987
Chaplain at Harrisburg Polyclinic Hospital, then from 1975 at Geisinger Medical Center and the Sacred Heart Villa in Danville, Pennsylvania, living in a convent house beside a girls' academy. On August 11, 1987 the Diocese's vicar general wrote to Long's Jesuit superior in Baltimore that the file "contains numerous complaints" and the nuns wanted him "out of the home, certainly before the high school girls return to the Academy." 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury, Report I (Aug. 2018), Diocese of Harrisburg, pp. 171–174.
November 1987
A 21-year-old and an 18-year-old went to Father David McAndrew in Danville. His statement, page 175, records that one "said Father Long sought to have sex with her four years ago when she was 17 years old," that "Father Long admitted to (REDACTED) that he has had sexual relationships with 'four or five' girls since he was stationed in Baltimore," and that a second girl "is believed to have come into contact with Long when she was 13 years old." Grand jury report, p. 175.
December 1, 1987 to January 1988
The vicar general notified Bishop William Keeler of Harrisburg and sent the report to the Jesuit superior in Maryland. Long "admitted he had a 'relationship' with the girl," page 178 says; Keeler "preferred that Long be 'reassigned by his Religious Community.'" In January 1988 the woman said "she had been forced to have sex with Long." His superior then transferred him. Nobody in the file calls the police. Grand jury report, pp. 178–182.
1988 to 2004
Mercy Hospital, Baltimore, 1988 to 1989, living at St. Ignatius. In 1990 a nun reported him co-pastor in Jessup, Pennsylvania. A 1995 Harrisburg memo, page 184, says his superior removed him, sent him to St. Luke Institute, and that "when he came out in 1991-92 Cardinal Keeler granted him permission to work in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Shortly after his assignment reports were again received of inappropriate behavior on his part." The Archdiocese's list puts him at Loyola Blakefield's Jesuit community "for a time in 1992." He left the Jesuits that year; died 2004. Grand jury report, pp. 182–184.
August 14, 2018
The Pennsylvania Attorney General released the report; Long is one of 45 men in its Harrisburg section. Page 185: "Keeler presided over the Diocese of Harrisburg when it received complaints that Long had sexually abused children. Keeler was informed that Long had admitted to the conduct. In spite of such knowledge, Keeler, now in his capacity as Cardinal of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, returned Long to ministry." That day the Archdiocese dropped its plan to name a school after Keeler. Grand jury report, p. 185.
September 7, 2018
The Archdiocese of Baltimore added Long and nine others from the Pennsylvania report to its list, saying it "was not aware of allegations against the 10 named in the Pennsylvania report before it was released." On December 17, 2018 the Jesuits published theirs; Long is in the group whose allegations "could not be fully investigated to determine credibility, but for which there is a reasonable possibility (semblance of truth)," place Danville, "circa 1970s – 1980s." Archdiocese of Baltimore statement, Sept. 7, 2018.
April 5, 2023
The Maryland Attorney General's 463-page report on the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Long is not in its chapters; he is in Appendix A, "Archdiocese Priests Who Abused in Other States," page 451, location of abuse Pennsylvania. Read that plainly: the Maryland record of what he did is the Pennsylvania record, plus 1991-92 reports in Baltimore nobody has detailed. That September 29 the Archdiocese filed for Chapter 11. Maryland Attorney General's Report, Appendix A, p. 451.
We checked this on September 12, 2026, and the newest thing in it is from April 5, 2023. When something new gets filed or decided, it goes in here within 72 hours, with the link.
Who answers for what Father Long is accused of
Not him. He died in 2004, never charged. So the question is which institution put him where he was and what it knew, and the honest answer is complicated in a way that helps. The Archdiocese of Baltimore is the natural defendant, and it's in bankruptcy; it filed Chapter 11 on September 29, 2023, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland (case 23-16969, Judge Michelle Harner), and the deadline for filing a claim there came and went on May 31, 2024. As of June 2026 there were two competing plans and nothing confirmed. A new claim against the Archdiocese itself is a claim behind a closed door; only a lawyer can say whether there's a way through.
That isn't the end of it, though, and here's why. He was a Jesuit. Not an archdiocesan priest, and none of the places he was sent is the Archdiocese. Loyola Blakefield is its own corporation; so is Loyola College (Loyola University Maryland now), so are Good Samaritan and Mercy, and so is the Jesuit province that kept his file. Judge Harner wrote in April 2026 that the Archdiocese is "a distinct and separate entity from each parish and school corporation." So where he had access matters, because the Archdiocese's bankruptcy deadline has passed and the school, the college, the hospitals and the Jesuit order are separate. That is why the first question asks which building.
What a complaint would say, in plain words, is that the people who placed him had reason to know. Harrisburg had "numerous complaints" by August 1987. His Jesuit superior got that letter, then McAndrew's report, then the January 1988 disclosures, and the file records a promise that he would never "be placed in an assignment where he could again prey upon young women." Mercy Hospital, 1988. Jessup, 1990. Baltimore again, 1991-92, where "reports were again received." One more thing, said plainly: the Jesuits' list does not call his case credible; the Archdiocese's says he admitted it. A lawyer will know what to do with the gap. You don't have to.
Your deadline: Maryland's rule for childhood sexual abuse claims, and what it doesn't cover
Maryland has no time limit on this claim. The section that says so, Courts and Judicial Proceedings § 5-117(b) as the Child Victims Act of 2023 rewrote it, puts it in six words: an action for damages arising out of sexual abuse that occurred while the victim was a minor "may be filed at any time," and it says that notwithstanding any statute of limitations or repose, and notwithstanding the state and local tort claims acts too. Whether it was 1970 or 1988 doesn't matter; it reaches all the way back. It also survived a constitutional challenge, by a vote of 4 to 3, when the Supreme Court of Maryland upheld it on February 3, 2025 in Roman Catholic Archbishop of Washington v. Doe.
Two limits, and we won't hide them. Under § 5-117(d), a claim the old law had already closed before October 1, 2023 cannot be brought if the person who was abused has died. And effective June 1, 2025 the statute changed how much can be recovered for noneconomic harm from any one defendant, and capped what a lawyer may charge, for cases filed on or after that date. Real, and a lawyer's to explain with your facts in front of them.
Now what § 5-117 does not cover. It is a Maryland rule for a minor. If you were 18 or older at the time, the ordinary Maryland rules apply and they are much shorter; that is why we ask, and why an adult's answer is graded differently, not thrown out. And Danville, Harrisburg or Jessup is Pennsylvania, with its own rules and no window like Maryland's. Which state's law reaches a Pennsylvania girl and a Maryland order is what a lawyer decides. Twenty minutes, no charge.
Your situation still qualifies even if
- It wasn't Father Long. Another Jesuit, a teacher at Blakefield, an orderly at Good Samaritan; the claim runs against the institution either way.
- Nothing happened that you would call an assault. Talk that went where it shouldn't have. An invitation. The Danville file began with "sought to have sex" and got worse only when the woman was finally asked.
- You were a boy. The record's known victims were girls; Blakefield and the Training School were all boys, and the Jesuits' list is about minors of either sex.
- You told a nun, a priest, a supervisor, and nothing came of it. That is what happened in Danville for five months.
- You filed something in the Archdiocese's bankruptcy, or signed a release years ago. Bring it. A lawyer needs to see it first.
Where he was
He moved a lot. The first stops were Gonzaga College High School in Washington, 1949 to 1950, and Georgetown Prep, 1950 to 1952, and then, from 1957 to 1963, Loyola Blakefield in Towson, the name Baltimore readers will know (he'd go back to Gonzaga for a year in 1964 to 1965, and to Blakefield's Jesuit community for a time in 1992). After Blakefield came a year at Bishop's Latin School in Pittsburgh, 1963 to 1964, and three at Gesu School in Philadelphia, 1965 to 1968, before the Maryland Training School for Boys in 1968 to 1969 and Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore in 1969 to 1970. Loyola College, which is Loyola University Maryland now, was 1970 to 1974, or 1968 to 1974 if you go by the Archdiocese's list. After that it was Pennsylvania for a long while: Harrisburg Polyclinic Hospital in 1974, then Geisinger Medical Center and Villa Sacred Heart in Danville for twelve years, 1975 to 1987. Back to Baltimore for Mercy Hospital, 1988 to 1989, living at St. Ignatius; Scranton, 1989 to 1990; St. James in Jessup, 1990 to 1991; and somewhere in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, 1991 to 1992, per the Harrisburg memo. Somewhere else? Tell us anyway.
Questions people are asking
Was Father Arthur Long ever charged with a crime?
No. Never. He died in 2004 without anyone charging him, never mind a conviction, so what's left is paper. The Pennsylvania grand jury report of August 14, 2018 reproduces the Diocese of Harrisburg's file on him. The Archdiocese of Baltimore added him to its list on September 7, 2018, and the Jesuits published theirs December 17, 2018. And there's Appendix A of the Maryland Attorney General's 2023 report.
He's dead. Can I still sue?
The claim was never really against him. It is against whoever placed and supervised him: the Jesuit order, and the school, college or hospital where it happened. In Baltimore that's Loyola Blakefield, Loyola University Maryland, Good Samaritan or Mercy (separate corporations, every one of them) and then the Archdiocese, which is in Chapter 11 and whose claims deadline passed on May 31, 2024. Which of them, a lawyer sorts out.
Isn't it too late to sue in Maryland?
For abuse of a minor, not anymore. Courts and Judicial Proceedings § 5-117(b) says the claim "may be filed at any time," and the Supreme Court of Maryland upheld that on February 3, 2025. There is a bar if the person abused has died, for claims the old law had already closed, and the rules changed June 1, 2025 for cases filed after that. An adult at the time, or Pennsylvania conduct: different rules, and a lawyer decides.
What did the grand jury report say about Cardinal Keeler and Father Long?
At page 185 it found that Keeler "presided over the Diocese of Harrisburg when it received complaints that Long had sexually abused children," that he "was informed that Long had admitted to the conduct," and that "in spite of such knowledge," as Cardinal in Baltimore, he "returned Long to ministry." Keeler had already died. The Archdiocese dropped a plan to name a school after him that day.
How much does a sexual abuse lawyer cost?
Nothing, here. Every case is on contingency: the lawyer is paid only out of what is recovered, and if nothing is recovered you owe nothing. Not for the call, not for the review, not for the case. Maryland now caps what a lawyer may take in these cases; the lawyer tells you the figure before you sign anything.
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Kerim Eravci · Survivor Advocate · Not a lawyer
I was a victim, and I waited. Not because I didn't know what happened to me (I knew every day), but because I'd decided it was over, mine to carry, nobody's business. When I finally went looking for a lawyer, the answer came back in two words I'd never thought about: statute of limitations. My time had run out while I was busy getting through it.
What that has cost me since is a long story, and I'll tell you the whole thing in private, if you want it. The short version is the reason my name is on this page: I'm here to help people do what I wish I'd done, which is find out where you stand while the door's still open.
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