ALBANY (NY)
TimesUnion
August 26, 2019
By Steve Hughes
A former Hoosick Falls police officer, Boy Scout leader and mayor who later became a priest is accused of molesting a boy for a period of about three years in the 1980s, according to a civil complaint.
The lawsuit, part of over 500 filed in New York since Aug. 14 under the Child Victims Act, alleges that the Rev. Richard A. Severson abused the boy at St. Mary’s Church in Hudson Falls from about 1982 until 1985, when the boy was between the ages of 10 and 13.
The suit names the Albany Roman Catholic Diocese and St. Mary’s Church as defendants.
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