PENNSYLVANIA
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

August 17, 2014

A priest in the Archdiocese of Boston has been accused of sexually abusing a minor while he was a priest in the Pittsburgh area in the early 1970s.

The Diocese of Pittsburgh announced today that the allegation against the Rev. John P. Carroll concerns when he was assigned to Saint Michael Parish in Elizabeth Township from 1962 to 1963.

The victim made the allegation directly to the Archdiocese of Boston, according to a news release issued by the Diocese of Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik wrote this weekend to Saint Michael Parish and all parishes where Father Carroll served while in the Diocese of Pittsburgh informing them of the allegation.

Bishop Zubik said his purpose in writing “is to discover whether anyone else may have an allegation against Father Carroll or anyone who was acting in the name of the church.”

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