CHICOPEE (MA)
Mass Live
March 9, 2018
By Stephanie Barry
Richard Koske sits at a restaurant not far from the Roman Catholic parish where he has worked as a janitor and handyman for 15 years.
It seems a suitable role for a devout man who traces many of his 62 years of memories back to the Catholic church — for better or for worse. A longtime South Hadley Falls resident, Koske and four siblings were students of Catholic schools growing up.
But he and the church remain at odds over the discipline of a once-trusted pastor who sexually assaulted him once when Koske was an adult — reflecting a hangover of sorts more than a decade after an international clergy abuse scandal enveloped the church. Massachusetts was ground zero for that calamity.
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