BUFFALO (NY)
The Buffalo News
By Jay Tokasz
News Religion Reporter
A second woman has stepped forward to allege inappropriate and unwanted sexual advances by a Buffalo priest.
A spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo acknowledged this week that it has received a second independent complaint regarding the Rev. Secondo Casarotto, the former pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Church on Court Street.
Casarotto was removed from his pastorate Jan. 14 after Bishop Edward U. Kmiec learned that the priest was accused in a Buffalo police report of groping a former parishioner inside the rectory.
Casarotto told Buffalo police the sexual contact was consensual, and the priest was not charged with a crime.
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