ROCHESTER (NY)
Democrat & Chronicle
June 6, 2018
By Sean Lahman
A Boston attorney who has spent decades representing victims of sexual abuse by priests says a group of Rochester victims will come forward.
In a press release, Mitchell Garabedian named eight priests from the Rochester diocese who are accused of sexually abusing minor children. A group of men, now grown, say they were abused by these priests when they were young boys. The incidents took place years ago when the alleged perpetrators were assigned to churches in the Rochester diocese.
Three of the accused priests had been publicly identified in the past. Allegations of misconduct by Eugene Emo, David P. Simon, and Francis H. Vogt were reported by the local press and the accusations were acknowledged by the Diocese. Emo and Simon were removed from their ministry and Vogt has since died.
But allegations against five of the priests accused Wednesday had not been previously reported.
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