CONNECTICUT
CT Post
Stacy Davis
Published 8:03 p.m., Wednesday, November 7, 2012
EASTON — Ted Alexander Jr. always was the last one dropped off after Boy Scout meetings.
The driver, his Boy Scout leader, would take the 8-year-old to a parking lot on Black Rock Turnpike and they would wrestle in the car. Sometimes, the man would shove his head into Alexander’s crotch.
The man was Stephen Toth.
Shortly after his death in 1985, the town named a park after him. Many knew Toth for helping children, serving on the Parks and Recreation Commission and volunteering his time to the Boy Scouts and Little League.
Others say his reputation is tainted and want the name of Toth Park changed. …
Michael Powel, who said Toth also assaulted him, traveled to Connecticut from his home in St. Petersburg in 2004 to urge the commission to take Toth’s name off the park. Powel, who died in 2008 from brain cancer, said Toth tied him up, blindfolded him, performed sexual acts on him and photographed him in compromising positions. The abuse started after he joined his Boy Scout Troop in 1968 and continued for three years, sometimes at the park named after him, Powell said in 2004.
Powel also alleged that Carlo Fabbozzi, a former Trumbull town councilman and janitor/landscaper for St. Theresa’s Church, and a priest, Rev. Joseph Gorecki, abused him in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As a result, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport agreed to pay $200,000 to Powel’s family last year. Powel also won a $10 million verdict in 2006 against Fabbozzi but never was able to collect it.
Fabbozzi could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
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