PHILADELPHIA (PA)
WTRF
By Amy Wadas
According to KYW-TV in Philadelphia, the Bishop of the Wheeling-Charleston Diocese, Michael J. Bransfield, is being accused of being linked to an alleged predator priest and child abuse in the early 1980’s.
A witness brought this all out in the open in a Philadelphia courtroom. He told a jury he was raped by Father Stanley Gana.
KYW reports that the witness testified that Gana put him on the phone with then Father Michael J. Bransfield, who allegedly said he was going to have the boy sent to him.
The Philadelphia Inquirer also reports that another witness told the jury on Wednesday, that Bransfield actually had sex with teenage boys. That witness told the judge that Bransfield brought multiple boys to a farm where Gana allegedly raped them.
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