Defrocked Bucks County Priest Faces Charges for Fondling Altar Boys Before Mass, DA Says

LEVITTOWN (PA)
NBC10

September 3, 2019

By Dan Stamm

Francis ‘Frank’ Trauger is accused of fondling two altar boys before Mass at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in Levittown, Pennsylvania in the 1990s and 2000s

A former priest is now charged with sexually assaulting at least two altar boys during his decade long tenure at a Bucks County church.

Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub announced charges Tuesday against Francis “Frank” Trauger. The alleged assaults occurred when the now 74-year-old Trauger was a priest at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in Levittown, Pennsylvania in the 1990s and 2000s.

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