DENVER (CO)
Catholic News Agency
July 9, 2020
The Diocese of Erie has been dropped as a defendant in a lawsuit against Bishop Donald Trautman and the Diocese of Buffalo which claims they covered up a priest’s sex abuse of a 10-year-old boy in the mid-1980s.
The suit, filed in January, concerns actions that Trautman allegedly took while serving in the curia of the Buffalo diocese. After his time in Buffalo, Trautman was Bishop of Erie.
The Erie diocese had asked to be removed from the suit, saying that the claims against Trautman concern only his time in Buffalo.
“The Erie Diocese has absolutely no relationship whatsoever to this case,” it said in a dismissal request filed May 18.
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