BUFFALO (NY)
WKBW TV
Dec. 9, 2019
By Charlie Specht
Terry Connors is one of the few constants in the Diocese of Buffalo sex abuse crisis.
The influential criminal defense attorney has done legal work for four Catholic bishops stretching back three decades.
He was there in 1993, when notorious pedophile priests Bernard Mach and John Aurelio were first accused of sexually abusing boys under the tenure of Bishop Edward D. Head.
He represented the diocese in 2003 under Bishop Henry J. Mansell , when dozens of claims poured into the Buffalo chancery following the explosion of the worldwide sex abuse crisis in Boston. Most of those claims were hidden from the public until this year.
And he was the official attorney for the Catholic Diocese under bishops Edward U. Kmiec and Richard J. Malone , who according to confidants, would often utter of the abuse crisis, “Terry will get us through this.”
But Buffalo now has a new bishop — Edward B. Scharfenberger — and it’s unclear whether he will keep Connors on as diocesan attorney, especially since Connors could be facing legal troubles of his own.
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