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Newsday

October 16, 2018

By Bart Jones

The former music director at a Roman Catholic Church in Patchogue sexually abused a teenage girl repeatedly for more than a year as church workers ignored policies put in place to protect children, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.

The girl, who was 15 when the alleged abuse started in 2015, was sexually assaulted in a chapel and in a classroom at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, as well as in the music director’s car and at a motel in Patchogue, states the lawsuit, which was filed in State Supreme Court in Nassau County.

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the girl, who is now 18, names the parish pastor at the time, the Rev. Benet Uwasombra, the parish itself, Bishop John Barres and the Diocese of Rockville Centre, which Barres heads. It is seeking an unspecified amount…