PENNSYLVANIA
Tribune-Review
STEPHEN HUBA | Monday, July 24, 2017
Area Catholics and ex-Catholics who testified before a state grand jury that met in 2014 to investigate Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse reacted Monday to the news of another abuse allegation with a mixture of relief and anger.
“Being one of those people who came forward, this is a very proud day for me,” said Shaun Dougherty, 47, formerly of Johnstown. “If this arrest came as a result of anything I testified to … that’s why I came forward.”
Dougherty, who owns a restaurant in New York City and no longer is a Catholic, said he was abused by the Rev. George Koharchik at St. Clement Church in the early 1980s.
“I don’t know that I ever had faith. I was 10 years old when this happened,” he said.
Dougherty was one of six alleged victims of Koharchik’s whose names were redacted from a 2016 Pennsylvania attorney general’s report on clergy sexual abuse in the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown.
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