PENNSYLVANIA
NBC News
November 12, 2018
By Corky Siemaszko
The Allentown Diocese did not tell parishioners there was an admitted molesting priest in their flock
A former altar boy claimed in a lawsuit Monday that he was molested repeatedly by a Pennsylvania priest who had admitted sexually abusing another boy a decade earlier — and who had been cleared to work with kids by a New Mexico clinic for troubled clergy that was derided in Catholic circles as “Camp Ped.”
Bruno Tucci, now 76, allegedly abused the altar boy — who is identified in court papers only as a 29-year-old “John Doe” — between 1999 and 2001 at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish in Nesquehoning, a small town 30 miles north of Allentown, Pennsylvania.
On one occasion, Tucci allegedly told the then pre-teen boy to “put his arms out like Jesus on the cross” while he fondled his exposed genitals, the lawsuit states.
“He is a broken young man,” the accuser’s chief lawyer, Gerald Williams, said during a press conference in Philadelphia. “He veers from anger to despair to depression.”
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