Archdiocese Settles Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Against a Priest with Prior Naugatuck Ties

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By BRIAN MCCREADY (Patch Staff) – February 10, 2016

The Archdiocese of Hartford has agreed to pay a former altar boy $500,000 to settle a sexual abuse lawsuit against a priest, the Connecticut Post reports.

The allegations date back to the mid 1980s and the accused priest was placed on leave in 2010.

The Rev. Stephen Bzdyra was accused in a lawsuit of sexually molesting an altar boy between 1985 to 1990 while he was at St. Francis Church in New Haven and St. Hedwig Church in Naugatuck.

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