WEST VIRGINIA
WCBC
March 15th, 2016 by WCBC Radio
A grand jury report released Tuesday by Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane indicted three members of the Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regulars in the Province of the Immaculate Conception located in Blair County, for alleged mishandling of members of the order who were accused of child sexual abuse dating back to the 1960s.
Three of eight members of the order accused of being child sex predators served at West Virginia parishes in Fort Ashby and Romney in the late 1980s and early 1990s, court documents showed.
Father Reginald Krakovsky served at Our Lady of Grace Church in Romney from 1991-1992.
Krakovsky, who died in 1997, allegedly engaged in child sexual abuse between 1963 and 1964 with two young boys at Holy Family Church in Minnesota. The matter resulted in civil litigation in 1994, with documents filed against the order saying the order “breached a duty to provide a safe environment for a child by exposing the child to Father Reginald Krakovsky who was in a position of trust and authority,” the grand jury report said.
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