GREENVILLE (SC)
Greenville News
Aug. 15, 2019
By Mike Ellis
South Carolina’s top Catholic, Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone, was accused in a lawsuit today of sexually abusing a minor while a priest in New York 40 years ago.
Guglielmone denied the accusations in separate statements from the Diocese of Charleston and from a law firm representing him.
The lawsuit, filed in Nassau County, alleges Guglielmone “was known among the community and the children at the church as a sexual predator” and the South Carolina diocese should have known about his reputation.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a man who alleges that Guglielmone forced him, as an 8-year-old, to perform sexual acts 20 to 30 times in the rectory of St. Martin of Tours Church in Amityville, New York.
The lawsuit says the alleged abuse led the man to “became scared, anxious and (he) remains unable to leave his home.” It led the man to cutting class and urinating on himself as a fourth grader and later to drugs and incarceration, according to the lawsuit.
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