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By Zoe Roos, Staff Writer • Contact Reporter
Published March 01, 2017
A lawsuit has been filed against the Archdiocese of Hartford by a former altar boy at St. George’s Church in Guilford, claiming former priest Daniel McSheffery sexually molested him for five years.
The suit, filed in superior court on Feb. 27, claims McSheffery began abusing the boy in the spring of 1977 when the boy was nine and continued for five years until the boy was 14. In that period, the lawsuit claims McSheffery abused the boy more than 250 times.
McSheffery, who died in 2014, was a priest at St. George’s from 1974 to 1986. Allegations of sexual misconduct concerning McSheffery first surfaced years ago, with the archdiocese settling numerous lawsuits against him with plaintiffs claiming that McSheffery sexually abused them in the late 1960s and 1970s while McSheffery served in Hartford. The Courier first reported on McSheffrey’s alleged crimes in 2002.
The current lawsuit lists the Archdiocese of Hartford as the only defendant, claiming the archdiocese knew of the abuse and did nothing, placing minors in danger.
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