BUFFALO (NY)
Spectrum Local News
June 18, 2018
By Katie Gibas
Judith Burns-Quinn has been working with victims of priest sex abuse in Western New York for 22 years.
“It’s easily Boston West,” she said.
Mitchell Garabedian, the attorney for victims of the Boston Diocese, backed up that statement.
“Given the amount of secrecy within the Diocese of Buffalo and the amount of names of pedophile priests being released, I think is fairly accurate. The amount of abuse has been devastating,” he said.
The latest name to come out is Father Dennis Fronczak, who was at St. Stephen’s Church on Grand Island in the ‘90s, St. Joseph’s Church in Holland in the ‘00s and most recently at Lancaster’s Our Lady of Pompeii.
A spokesperson for the Diocese says Fronczak was removed from ministry in 2015, and “information regarding complaints, including some from his time at the parishes of St. Stephen and St. Joseph, was sent to the Vatican. The matter is now the subject of pending canon law proceedings.”
Victims’ advocates are rekindling their cry for the Diocese to release all documents related to credible abuse allegations and for the bishop to step down.
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