PITTSFIELD (MA)
Berkshire Eagle

February 9, 2021

By Larry Parnass

https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/clergy-abuse-survivor-claims-former-springfield-bishop-others-engaged-in-cover-up/article_956615fc-6af9-11eb-8436-2751340c7b9f.html

The former altar boy who accused a legendary bishop of rape — an account deemed “unequivocally credible” by a retired judge last summer — wants to be compensated for his suffering, citing inaction and connivance by church officials that, he says, exacerbated his pain.

In a lawsuit filed in Hampden Superior Court, the Chicopee man alleges that current and former officials within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, including former Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski, engaged in a cover-up to protect the reputation of the late Bishop Christopher J. Weldon.

The suit alleges that people who work or worked for the diocese, including its longtime attorney, John. J. Egan, played various roles in suppressing the unnamed man’s initial reports of abuse by Weldon and two other members of the clergy in the 1960s, starting when the child was 9.

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