Mario Blanco Porras, SDB

Status: Deceased in 2008
Diocesan Response: Removed from ministry in 1973 for non-sexual misconduct. Ordered to return to religious order in Costa Rica, but refused to go. Lived in Sacramento area for several years thereafter and subsequently joined schismatic religious sect. Did not have faculties within the Diocese of Sacramento after 1973.
Year and Place of Birth: 1929, Costa Rica
Seminary Attended: Seminary in El Salvador, 1946-48 and Guatemala, 1956-60
Date Ordained / Connection to Diocese: Ordained August 1960, as member of the Salesian religious order

Assignments in Diocese of Sacramento

  • 1969-1972: Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Sacramento
  • 1972-1973: Immaculate Conception, Sacramento
  • 1970-1973: As part of Mexican-American apostolate, also served periodically at these Sacramento parishes: All Hallows; Holy Spirit; St. Peter; St. Rose

Reporting Victims

Date range of alleged abuse: 1968-1981

  1. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling, masturbation, sodomy/penetration
    • Year reported to diocese: 2003
  2. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling
    • Year reported to diocese: 2003
  3. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling
    • Year reported to diocese: 2003
  4. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling, masturbation, oral copulation, sodomy/penetration
    • Year reported to diocese: 2003
  5. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling
    • Year reported to diocese: 2003
  6. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling, masturbation
    • Year reported to diocese: 2003
  7. Male, under the age of 18
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling, attempted digital penetration
    • Year reported to diocese: 2003
  8. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling, masturbation
    • Year reported to diocese: 2003
  9. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Specific details unknown - believed to be sexual touching and fondling
    • Year reported to diocese: 2003
  10. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Specific details unknown - believed to be sexual touching and fondling
    • Year reported to diocese: 2009
  11. Male, under the age of 18
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling, masturbation
    • Year reported to diocese: 2003
  12. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling
    • Year reported to diocese: 2003
  13. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling, masturbation
    • Year reported to diocese: 1993
  14. Male, under the age of 18
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling
    • Year reported to diocese: 2003
  15. Male, under the age of 18
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling, masturbation
    • Year reported to diocese: 2003
  16. Male, under the age of 18
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling
    • Year reported to diocese: 1995
  17. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling, masturbation
    • Year reported to diocese: 2009
  18. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling, masturbation, oral copulation, sodomy/penetration
    • Year reported to diocese: 2003
  19. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling, masturbation, oral copulation
    • Year reported to diocese: 2003
  20. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling, masturbation, oral copulation, sodomy/penetration
    • Year reported to diocese: 1980s
  21. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling, masturbation in presence of
    • Year reported to diocese: 2003
  22. Male, under the age of 14
    • Nature of accusation(s): Sexual touching and fondling
    • Year reported to diocese: 2019