PENNSYLVANIA
WTAE
Parishioners at St. James Church in Wilkinsburg received a letter in the mail from the diocese informing them of the allegation, which is said to have occurred between 1981 and 1985.
Parishioner Jim Ruck said, “It’s sad and especially for people in positions of trust to abuse that trust, that’s horrendous.”
Mike Ference, a local advocate for victims of sex abuse by priests, said the alleged victim is a man in his 40s who recently died.
Ference said the man’s family came to him and told him that the alleged victim divulged detailed accounts of the abuse in the months before he died. Ference said, “The man started to talk about it and a few months later he passed away.”
The abuse, they said, began when the alleged victim was about 10 years old.
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