NEW YORK
WKBW
Charlie Specht
May 7, 2018
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) – Sexual abuse victims on Monday called on Bishop Richard Malone to reveal more information on sexually abusive Buffalo priests or resign as bishop.
“I think Buffalo, New York is ‘Boston, Massachusetts West,'” said Robert Hoatson, a former priest who runs Road to Recovery Inc., which helps victims of clerical sex abuse. “What you and we have uncovered and are uncovering is a cover-up of epidemic proportions.”
Hoatson pointed to Sunday’s front-page story in The Buffalo News which revealed that:
Diocese of Buffalo officials assigned the Rev. Fabian J. Maryanski to work in parishes for more than a decade after he was accused of having sexual contact with a teenage girl in a church rectory.
The priest started his sexual advances on the girl when she was a 15-year-old parishioner at St. Patrick Church in Barker, according to a 1995 letter sent by her lawyer to diocese officials.
Hoatson said it is time for Malone to reveal everything he knows about all 64 accused priests that have been identified by the media. The diocese originally said it had only received abuse complaints against 42 priests.
“So we’re here today to say to Bishop Malone, ‘Reveal it all or resign,’” Hoatson said. “And perhaps the latter is the most appropriate, because he doesn’t seem to be able to reveal.”
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