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By Elizabeth Doran | edoran@syracuse.com
on December 09, 2016
SYRACUSE, NY – Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said today his office investigated an allegation against Rev. Paul F. Angelicchio and found no proof, evidence or corroborating witness to back up the allegation.
Angelicchio, a priest for decades in the Syracuse area and more recently in Rome in Oneida County, has been placed on leave by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse while it investigates a claim of abuse that is alleged to have happened 27 years ago, a diocese spokeswoman confirmed this week. Angelicchio is pastor of St. John the Baptist and Transfiguration parish in Rome.
Fitzpatrick said when the allegation against Angelicchio surfaced, his office investigated and found nothing to back up the claim – no physical evidence, no crime and no corroborating witness. In addition, the alleged crime was decades old, thus the statute of limitations had run out, he said.
In addition, Angelicchio vehemently denied the allegation, Fitzpatrick said.
Fitzpatrick said his office determined Angelicchio “was not a clear and present danger to any minors,” and turned the allegation over to the Syracuse diocese, the DA’s normal practice.
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