ERIE (PA)
GoErie.com
July 5, 2020
By Ed Palattella
Retired Erie bishop still a defendant; all claims now over his tenure as a top official in Catholic Diocese of Buffalo.
A lawsuit in Buffalo against retired Erie Catholic Bishop Donald Trautman no longer includes the Catholic Diocese of Erie.
The lawyers in the case agreed to drop the Catholic Diocese of Erie as a defendant, as the diocese had requested.
The suit, filed at the start of the year, tried to connect the Catholic Diocese of Erie to claims that Trautman covered up clergy sex abuse of a minor when he was a top official in the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo in the 1980s.
The Erie diocese argued that Trautman was working for the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo at the time and that the claims relate only to the Buffalo diocese.
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