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EARLE CORNELIUS | Staff Writer
Four priests who previously served Lancaster County parishes are among 15 priests accused of child sexual abuse within the Diocese of Harrisburg, according to an investigation by the York Daily Record.
The 15 priests were named in a story this week after the diocese acknowledged them by name.
The priests who served Lancaster County parishes are:
– Guy Marsico, who was assigned to St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Rohrerstown, in 1976 and from 1979 to 1982. The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News reported in 2011 that a Lancaster County man alleged he was sexually abused by Marsico at St. Rose of Lima Church in York in the 1980s when he was a boy. It was reported that no records could be found to show whether Marsico was ever charged.
-Gerald Bugge, who served at St. Anthony of Padua Church, 501 E. Orange St., Lancaster, from August of 1986 to April 1988. He was one of 57 priests accused of child sexual abuse and were named by the Archdiocese of Baltimore in September 2002.
-William Geiger, who served two assignments at Our Mother of Perpetual Help, 330 Church Ave., Ephrata — from July 1987 to August 1993 and from August 1999 to June 2007 — and at St. Anthony of Padua in Lancaster from April 1994 to August 1999. According to the Daily Record, Geiger and another priest were sued by Toledo, Ohio, attorney David Zoll on behalf of three men who said the priests molested them when they were boys. The alleged abuse occurred in the 1970s at a church in Lima, Ohio.
-Frederick Vaughan, who was assigned to St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 1840 Marshall Road, Elizabethtown, from 1966 to 1970. The Harrisburg diocese said it received allegations of abuse against Vaughn after his death but not while he was alive.
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