ROCHESTER (NY)
WHAM
December 10, 2018
By Antoinette DelBel
The Diocese of Rochester has removed two priests from public ministry following an independent investigation into allegations of misconduct.
Reverend Thomas Valenti and Reverend Erick Viloria are restricted from presenting themselves publicly as clerics.
Father Valenti, who served at Blessed Trinity/St. Patrick’s in Tioga County, was accused in June 2018 of sexually abusing a minor. The alleged abuse occurred in the 1970s.
In June, Boston attorney Mitch Garabedian publicly accused Father Thomas Valenti of that sexual abuse incident when he worked as a deacon at St. Mary’s of the Lake Church in the Town of Ontario in the ‘70s.
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