ALBANY (NY)
Times Union
Oct. 8, 2019
By Cayla Harris
A third lawsuit accusing retired Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of sexual abuse was filed Thursday in state Supreme Court in Albany.
The latest complaint accuses the former longtime leader of the Albany Diocese and another priest of abusing a teenage boy at a Troy church between 1976 and 1978 but does not provide details of the alleged sexual abuse.
The second priest is identified in the court filing as Joseph Mato, though the Times Union could not determine if a priest by that name served at St. Michael’s in the late 1970s. Mary DeTurris Poust, a spokeswoman for the Albany Diocese, said she could not confirm that the diocese employed a man by that name, though a priest with a similar name did work at St. Michael’s during that period. That priest died in 2016.
“Because of his childhood abuse, plaintiff … is unable to fully describe all of the details of that abuse and the extent of the harm that he suffered as a result,” the lawsuit states. It adds that Hubbard and the other priest allegedly used their roles to “entice” and “take control of” the plaintiff and sexually assault him.
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