WISCONSIN
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel Oct. 13, 2014
Arthur Budzinski, a deaf man who helped expose one of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee’s most notorious child sexual abusers, the late Father Lawrence Murphy, will be honored Saturday by the Wisconsin School for the Deaf Alumni Association.
Budzinski, who graduated from the school in 1968, is among 10 alumnae who will be inducted into the Delavan school’s Hall of Fame for their service to the community.
“Arthur has been a courageous and staunch advocate for victims abused by priests since the early of 1970s,” the association said in announcing the award.
Budzinski was among dozens of boys molested by Murphy as children at the archdiocese’s St. John’s School for the Deaf in St. Francis between 1950 and 1974. One church psychologist estimated Murphy may have molested as many as 200 deaf children before he died in 1998.
Budzinski was among a group of alumni who had been pushing the church since the 1970s to remove Murphy and confront its failure to protect children. Their work has been documented by the Journal Sentinel and New York Times and was featured in the 2012 Alex Gibney documentary, “Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God.”
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