MARYLAND/PENNSYLVANIA
WFMZ
OCEAN CITY, Md. –
The investigation of a reported child sexual assault in Maryland has led to the arrest of a former priest in the Allentown Diocese.
Bruno Michael Tucci took a child in Aug. 1981 to a motel room in Ocean City, where the sexual acts occurred, said police, who declined to release specifics of the case.
Tucci, now 70, of Salisbury, Md., served as a priest in the Allentown Diocese, specifically at Roman Catholic schools and churches in Berks, Carbon and Schuylkill counties, between 1971 and 2002, said officials, adding that he was defrocked by the diocese in 2007.
Tucci’s arrest, police said, didn’t come about until now because they only learned of the alleged assault after the Jerry Sandusky case in Pennsylvania was made public.
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