BUFFALO (NY)
Buffalo News
October 22, 2019
By Jay Tokasz
The Buffalo Diocese has added 19 names since last November to its growing list of priests with substantiated claims of child sexual abuse.
That list now includes 97 priests – 75 from the diocese and 22 religious order priests who worked in the diocese.
The list of names has more than doubled in the less than two years since Bishop Richard J. Malone first began identifying priests accused of molesting children.
The diocese’s latest list still represents only a fraction of the roughly 150 clergy who have been publicly accused of sexual impropriety with children and, in a handful of cases, adults. However, it does name three priests who previously had not been outed publicly – in media accounts or in lawsuits – as accused abusers: the Rev. Ramon Aymerich, the Rev. Richard J. Bohm and the Rev. Terrence N. Niedbalski.
Aymerich is identified as having left the Catholic Church in 1982 to become an Episcopal priest. Bohm and Niedbalski are deceased.
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