The Diocese of Cheyenne, Wyo., added two more names to its list of priests with credible accusations of abuse, bringing its total to 13.

The two new men — Donn Shelly and Joseph Fraher — were added to the list over the past 14 months. They were active as both priests and alleged abusers decades ago, and both have since died. 

The two additions are the first to be added to the diocese’s list since it was first released in June 2019. The diocese said at the time that the list was a “living document” that would continue to grow as more victims came forward to report abuse. Retired Cheyenne Bishop Joseph Hart, who’s faced sexual abuse allegations for decades, did have his victim list doubled, from three to six. Hart has also faced several allegations related to his previous posting in Kansas City.

Fraher died in July, four months after the diocese determined the three allegations against him were credible. All three victims were three underaged girls, and the abuse allegedly occurred from the early 1950s through the mid-’60s. The earliest the church was told about Fraher was in 1990.

Unlike the original roster of alleged abusers, the diocese did not announce Fraher or Donn’s inclusion on the list in its semi-regular newsletter; it did post a short bulletin online and in parish materials, a spokeswoman said.

In September, six months after Fraher’s alleged abuse was publicly disclosed, the diocese ran a half-page obituary for him, which made no mention of his abuse allegations. The spokeswoman for the diocese said the obituary was submitted by the family and wasn’t altered by the church, out of concern for the victims and “mercy” toward Fraher and his family. The obit was also run in one of Wyoming’s larger newspapers, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle.

Donn served in two parishes, in Wyoming’s two largest cities, and allegedly abused an underaged girl from 1969 to 1970. He is also dead.

The Diocese of Cheyenne falls under the purview of the Archdiocese of Denver, but the Wyoming church conducted its own review of past abuse in the Equality State.

The first allegation against Fraher was made to the church in 1990, which raises questions about why he wasn’t included in the 2019 report. Spokeswoman Diana Marie Waggener said that was because “diocesan leadership decided that we needed to do an investigation of the case based on the evidence found in the file review.”

“Although there was an allegation reported in 1990, there was no official determination of the allegation as ‘credible’ until we finalized the investigation, so it would have been imprudent to include his name in the list in June 2019,” she added.