YORK (PA)
York Daily Record
August 22, 2018
By Candy Woodall
There were several warning signs in the Rev. Francis Bach’s past, but that didn’t stop a diocese from assigning him to multiple churches in central Pennsylvania.
In 1967, he was “relieved of his duties” with a young adult ministry in Harrisburg.
That was a few years after he served at St. Patrick Catholic Church in York, where a man in 2016 said Bach abused him as an altar boy in 1960.
Ten years later, Bach had more blemishes on his employment history and more work in York. He’s one of several examples in central Pennsylvania, according to a state grand jury report released last week on priest sex abuse, of the diocese shuffling predator priests, or “passing the trash.”
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