Assignment Record:

Dates	Assignment
Approx. 1965	Ordained in the Diocese of Allentown
1965 – 1966	St. Peter Church, Coplay, PA
1966 – 1971	Sacred Heart Church, West Reading, PA
1971 – 1973	St. Catharine of Siena Church, Reading, PA
1971 – 1978	Holy Name High School, Reading, PA
1971 – 1978	“Adult Religious Education,” Berks County, PA
1973 – 1974	St. John the Baptist Church, Shillington, PA
1974 – 1978	St. Benedict Church, Reading, PA
1978 – 1980	St. Joseph Church, Summit Hill, PA
1980	“Sick Leave” (at Villa St. John Vianney Hospital)
1980 – 1981	Our Lady of Hungary Church, Northampton, PA
1981 – 1986	St. Catharine of Siena Church, Reading, PA
1986 – 1989	Good Samaritan Hospital (chaplain)
1989 – 2005	“On administrative leave;” whereabouts unknown

• Father David Soderlund was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on three occasions in approximately 1971 when the boy was approximately twelve years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Soderlund was assigned as a priest of the Diocese of Allentown. Father Soderlund met and befriended the boy through a reading group Father Soderlund created in the Reading, Pennsylvania area. The sexual abuse by Father Soderlund took place during a twoweek camping trip where Father Soderlund took the boy and other minor children.
• The sexual abuse by Father Soderlund included the following: Father Soderlund fondled the boy’s penis, skin-on-skin, and performed oral sex on the boy. Father Soderlund also made the boy fondle Father Soderlund’s penis, skin-on-skin, and made the boy perform oral sex on Father Soderlund.
• The claim settled in April 2020 in the low six figures.