New Details of Child Sex Abuse Claims against Two Priests in Greensburg Diocese Revealed

By Bob Mayo
WTAE-TV
August 26, 2020

https://www.wtae.com/article/new-details-of-child-sex-abuse-claims-against-two-priests-in-greensburg-diocese-revealed/33811234

New details about alleged child sexual abuse by two different Diocese of Greensburg priests were revealed Wednesday.

One priest, who the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office says served in 15 Greensburg Diocese parishes since 1980, is charged with sex crimes against an altar boy spanning several years in Fairchance, Fayette County.

The crimes were allegedly committed inside the sacristy of St. Cyril and Methodius Parish and in an upstairs bedroom of that church's rectory.

Father Andrew Kawecki, 65, is charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault, and corruption of minors against the altar boy, who was 11 years old when the abuse allegedly started in 2004. It allegedly continued for several years