PENNSYLVANIA
We Are Central PA
Ebensburg, Cambria County, Pa.
An altar boy who was among the victims of child sex abuse in the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese took his own life on Saturday.
Brian Gergely served under Monsignor Francis McCaa at Holy Name Parish in Ebensburg.
In 2003, Gergely filed a civil lawsuit with the diocese, but his friends say his life was forever changed by the abuse.
Included in that suit was, Kevin Hoover, who WTAJ News spoke to after the grand jury report was released earlier this year.
Hoover was also abused by McCaa. He pointed to the timing of his friend’s death, which came just days after the state Senate voted 49-0 that part of the statute of limitations bill was unconstitutional.
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