ST. BONAVENTURE (NY)
Olean Times Herald
November 15, 2018
By Tom Dinki
St. Bonaventure University says that the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo should not have publicly named a deceased university friar as being credibly accused of child sexual abuse given diocesan criteria for identifying accused priests.
The Rev. Maurice Scheier, who worked at St. Bonaventure for nearly 60 years prior to his death in 1991, was among the 36 additional priests that the Buffalo Diocese announced last week had substantiated claims of child sex abuse made against them.
The Buffalo Diocese states on its website that the 36 priests identified Nov. 5 — as well as the original list of 42 priests released in March — do not include priests “who received a single allegation after their death.”
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