NEW YORK
WKBW
Charlie Specht
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) – – Following Buffalo’s lead, the Diocese of Erie, Pa., has released a list of priests and others who since 1944 have been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors.
Erie’s list, though, appears to be a much more comprehensive accounting of decades of child sexual abuse in the diocese, because unlike Buffalo’s list, it includes:
* Not only priests, but also laypeople — many of them former Catholic school employees — who have been accused of abuse.
* Locations or last known locations of those accused and basic details of whether the priests were “laicized,” defrocked or forbidden to function as priests.
* Priests who belong to religious orders but who operated in the diocese.
The list also takes the extraordinary step of citing a former bishop — the late Albert Wilson — for failing to stop abuse that was “credibly reported to him.”
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