Rudolph Kos

Rudolph Kos (born 1946) is a former Roman Catholic priest who was found guilty of sex crimes in the diocese of Dallas.

Around April 1992, a child abuse expert who only knew a small part of this documented history declared Rev. Kos to be a "textbook pedophile". However, Bishop Charles Grahmann did not read this record and allowed Kos to have access to children for almost one full year more. The last documented incident of abuse was 11 months later.

In 1997 a jury awarded $120 million to victims in a sex abuse case against the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, Texas in a lawsuit implicating Kos.

The transcript of this trial is 9,000 pages. 3,000 of those pages have been edited by five volunteers to remove the names of victims to protect them and their families. These pages have been made available online.

They include the testimony under oath of Bishop Grahmann where he admitted to never having taken the time to read the personnel file on Kos. This included the four-year history of allegations before he came to Dallas and the allegations that continued after he was bishop.

On July 10, 1998 the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas agreed to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who had claimed they were sexually abused by Kos.