MANHATTAN (NY)
CBS (WCBS 880)
November 9, 2017
By Alex Silverman
NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — Two men are accusing an active upper Manhattan priest of abusing them decades ago, and calling on the archdiocese to keep him away from children.
Minnesota-based attorneys Patrick Noaker and Jessica Arbour who work for the group Lawyers Helping Survivors of Child Sex Abuse, say their clients, whom they did not name, filed claims with the archdiocese’s victim compensation program in September and October. They claim Fr. Lawrence Quinn abused them when he was assigned to a parish in the Bronx throughout the 1990s.
“One boy was an altar boy at Our Lady of Mercy, and the other was trying to become an altar boy,” Noaker said. One of the accusers was 5 years old when the alleged abuse began; the other was 12.
Quinn is now assigned to Our Lady Queen of Martyrs in Inwood, which has an elementary school on the property.
“The archdiocese has done nothing to inform these parishioners that there may be a lone wolf in their midst,” Arbour said.
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