BRIDGEPORT (CT)
The Associated Press
October 3, 2018
A Catholic diocese in Connecticut announced Wednesday that it has chosen a retired state judge to lead an investigation into sexual abuse of children by priests, a review that will look at allegations and Church records dating back to when the diocese was founded in 1953.
Robert Holzberg, who retired as a state Superior Court judge in 2012 and returned to private law practice, will be lead investigator and counsel for the Diocese of Bridgeport’s investigation, which Church officials say will begin immediately and be finished next spring.
The diocese, which includes more than 460,000 Catholics in 82 parishes in Fairfield County, has faced at least three dozen lawsuits alleging sexual abuse of children by priests since the early 1990s, leading to more than $35 million in settlements, the Connecticut Post has reported. Five more men sued the diocese last month, saying priests abused them when they were children in the late 1980s to the early 2000s.
Twenty-nine priests in the diocese – living and dead – have been credibly accused of sexual abuse, according to the diocese.
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