DARIEN (CT)
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Roman Catholic officials say they have never received specific allegations about the behavior of the Rev. Robert Post, a priest at the St. Thomas More Church in Darien, and the lawyer for three men accusing him won’t make their accusations public.
By David Gurliacci
The Rev. Robert Post has been accused publicly of having sexually abused three teenagers when he was a member of the Irish Christian Brothers in New York state, before he became a priest 30 years ago.
But specific, detailed allegations, the credibility of which might be judged, have not been made public. Nor has Post, a priest at St. Thomas More Church, been arrested or prosecuted.
Instead, Robert M. Hoatson, a former Catholic priest who now runs Road to Recovery, an organization that describes itself as offering “compassionate counseling and referral services to survivors of clergy sexual abuse,” made himself one half of a two-man demonstration Saturday in front of St. Thomas More as parishioners entered and then left the church for Saturday afternoon Mass.
The two held a news conference afterward where they said they wanted the Bridgeport Diocese to remove Post from his position as it investigates the priest’s past.
“[T]hree men have come forward to claim that they were abused by Br. Robert Post,” the organization said in a news release. “Not one, not two, THREE.”
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