Former Berks priest charged with sexual assault

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A former priest who served and taught in Berks County has been charged with sexually assaulting a boy in Maryland in 1981, police reported this morning.

Bruno M. Tucci, 70, of Salisbury Md., was charged with sexual assault and child abuse by a custodian. He remains free pending further court action.

Police said Tucci assaulted the child in an Ocean City motel room in August 1981.

Tucci had been a priest in the Allentown Diocese, and in the 1970s taught at Holy Name and Central Catholic high schools, and served at St. Columbkill Church in Boyertown and at St. Margaret’s Church, among other Berks locations.

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