BURLINGTON (VT)
Free Press
August 22, 2019
By Elizabeth Murray
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington will release the names of priests against whom credible and substantiated allegations of child sexual abuse have been made. The names will be released Thursday morning.
The report was compiled by a lay committee, appointed by Bishop Christopher Coyne, to examine priest personnel files. The committee was comprised of four men and three women, including one priest abuse victim and one non-Catholic.
The allegations against clergy who served throughout the state date back to the 1950s, the Diocese said.
According to a statement written by the Bishop on the Diocese’s website, there has only been one credible and substantiated claim of abuse in 16 years. The allegation involved an 18-year-old who formed an emotional relationship with a member of the clergy when that teenager was a minor.
“There are no priests in ministry who have had a credible and substantiated allegation made against them,” the Bishop wrote.
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