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Summary of Case: Robert P. Conlin was ordained for the Buffalo diocese in 1956. He spent his first year after ordination as the sole priest at a small East Otto parish, assigned there through the diocese’s Missionary Apostolate program. He went on to assist in Batavia, Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Albion parishes until 1977, when he was named pastor of St. Mary’s in Pavilion. Conlin remained at St. Mary’s until his death at age 66 in 1997.
In March 2018 a man came forward publicly to allege that Conlin sexually abused him in 1980, when he was a 15-year-old parishioner and Conlin was pastor of St. Mary’s in Pavilion. He said he was from a single-mother home, and that Conlin groomed him as if he were “his son.” He said he told his mother about the abuse when she found him crying in his bed.
Born: June 17, 1931
Ordained: 1956
Died: December 9, 1997
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