BUFFALO (NY)
The Buffalo News
February 28, 2018
By Aaron Besecker
The Rev. Norbert F. Orsolits isn’t the only priest in the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo who’s been publicly accused of inappropriate sexual conduct.
At least 19 priests who worked in the Buffalo area have been publicly accused in recent decades, according to a search of The News archives.
Some were arrested. Some were named in lawsuits. Some were accused of wrongdoing outside of Western New York.
They represent a fraction of the priests who have been the targets of complaints privately filed with the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo.
In 2004, the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo said 93 complaints alleging sexual abuse had been lodged against 53 clerics in the diocese since 1950. The diocese has refused to identify most of those men. At the time, those about whom complaints had been filed represented 2.6 percent of all clerics who served between 1950 and 2002.
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