BUFFALO (NY)
Buffalo News
January 7, 2019
ByJay Tokasz
The Buffalo Diocese has added the names of two priests to its list of clergy that it says have been credibly accused of child sexual abuse.
The Rev. Fabian J. Maryanski and the Rev. Mark J. Wolski are now included with 78 other diocesan and religious order priests that diocese officials acknowledged in 2018 had “substantiated claims” against them.
The diocese announced the update in a tweet late Monday morning.
A woman who said Maryanski repeatedly sexually abused her beginning in the 1980s when she was 15 had been urging the diocese for months to add Maryanski to its list of abusive priests. The diocese put out its first list of offending priests last March, with 42 names.
Maryanski, 77, was removed in May from active ministry, but the diocese didn’t add his name in November when it last released an updated list of 36 more offending priests.
The list now stands at 80 priests, and diocese officials have said that more names could be added.
Stephanie McIntyre, who said Maryanski abused her for years when she was a teenage parishioner at St. Patrick Church in Barker, received a $400,000 settlement offer in December from the diocese as compensation for the alleged abuse.
Following the diocese’s announcement Monday, she encouraged any other victims of Maryanski to come forward.
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