MILWAUKEE (WI)
Fox 6
[with video]
July 1, 2013, by Bryan Polcyn
MILWAUKEE – Father Daniel Budzynski is accused of molesting more than 40 young boys over 31 years, while the Milwaukee Archdiocese shuffled him around to a dozen local parishes. For all those years, the church never told parishioners or the public what it knew.
Timeline of events
Supporting documents
Deposition
Budzynski eventually told some of his victims that he’s sorry. And according a handwritten letter he sent to one victim, he’s asked God to forgive him, too. But when the Fox 6 Investigators called on Monday, Budzynski was in no mood to discuss it.
Bryan Polcyn/FOX 6 Investigators: “Can you explain why you continued to move from parish to parish after all of those years of sexual abuse?”
Daniel Budzynksi/Former Priest: “I tell you I have nothing to say about it.”
According to documents released by the Archdiocese, Budzynski’s molestation began at St. Helen’s parish in 1956. It continued at St. Hedwig’s in 1962. In 1966, Budzynski petitioned the church to become a guidance counselor at St. Paul’s parish, because he was “especially interested in helping boys.”
He later admitted to molesting 17 of them, including an alter boy who says Budzynski “made sure to bless us after every mass,” a reference to regular sexual assaults.
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