CONNECTICUT
Hartford Courant
Dave Altimari
A former altar boy at St. George’s Church in Guilford has filed a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Hartford, alleging he was molested by former parish priest Daniel McSheffery starting when he was nine.
The lawsuit claims that McSheffery took the boy under his wing, offering him counseling and even helping with his schoolwork to gain his trust. The lawsuit alleges the abuse started in the spring of 1977 and continued for five years until the boy was 14.
The lawsuit alleges that during that time, McSheffery, who died in 2014, abused the boy more than 250 times. The accuser is named in the lawsuit but the Courant is not publishing his name because he is a possible sexual assault victim.
The lawsuit, filed this week, names only the the Archdiocese of Hartford as a defendant. The claim is that church officials, including then-Archbishop John F. Whealon, knew that McSheffery was a danger to minors and did nothing about it.
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