Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing children in San Luis Obispo County
Father Theodore Gabrielli
Cal Coast News
June 17, 2025
By Karen Velie
Update: At his arraignment hearing on Tuesday afternoon, Father Theodore Gabrielli’s attorney asked the court to postpone his arraignment until July 8. The judge then eliminated the $1 million bail.
A Catholic priest is sitting in the San Luis Obispo County Jail without bail regarding allegations he sexually abused three children in San Luis Obispo County.
SLO County Sheriff deputies arrested Father Theodore Gabrielli, 61, in Los Osos on June 12. Gabrielli is facing three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of sodomy of a child under 14 years of age.
From 1991 through 1999, Gabrielli allegedly brought three children under 14 years old to the Central Coast, according to court records. He is accused of committing oral copulation on the three children and sodomy on one of the children.
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