DALLAS (TX)
CBS News
February 6, 2018
DALLAS – A former Catholic priest suspected of sexually abusing as many as 100 boys in the late 70s and 80s, spent his last seven years in the Dallas-Fort Worth area where he used an alias on social media to meet young men. CBS DFW reports that James Brzyski, considered one of the worst abusers in the history of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, was found dead in September in a Fort Worth motel room.
An autopsy revealed Brzyski suffered from heart disease and was full of vodka and anti-depressants at the time of his death.
Records, obtained through the Texas Public Information Act, show that police recovered a laptop, thumb drives and a cell phone from Brzyski’s room. Fort Worth Police detectives, however, said they found nothing further to investigate.
But while Brzyski’s death may have been an accident, the CBS DFW found the life he led, to his very last days, is worth investigating.
“This man was a monster,” said John Delaney, who was raped by Brzyski in the early 1980s at Saint Cecilia Parish in Philadelphia.
“As bad as you could possibly imagine it could be, that’s what happened,” said Delaney, who was 11-years-old when the assaults began. “It broke me as a kid.”
Decades later, when the Catholic Church sex scandal began to unfold, a grand jury investigation revealed Brzyski sexually abused at least 17 victims and noted that he may have abused as many as 100 boys. The 2005 report released by the grand jury called Brzyski one of the “most brutal abusers” in the Philadelphia archdiocese.
Brzyski was kicked out of the church, but eluded prosecution due to the statute of limitations.
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