I-Team: DA says sex crimes law should change in wake of Buffalo priest abuse scandal

BUFFALO (NY)
WKBW

March 5, 2018

By Charlie Specht

Child Victims Act pending in Albany

Erie County District Attorney John Flynn had a lot to say when sexual abuse allegations at Nichols School emerged in January.

“When I read through it, I was obviously disgusted,” Flynn said back then of the private school’s investigative report.

The DA is just as sick reading about recent abuse allegations surrounding local priests in the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo — and Flynn is a practicing Catholic.

Charlie Specht, Reporter: “Do you feel as strongly about what happened there?”

Flynn: “Absolutely. My resolve in getting this passed has never wavered.”

If anything, he said the allegations against former priest Norbert Orsolits — and a rare admission of guilt by the priest published last week in The Buffalo News — make the matter even more pressing.

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