HAMDEN (CT)
The Quinnipiac Chronicle
November 13, 2018
By Garret Reich
Waterbury priest sued for sexual abuse
“If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one,” Mitchell Garabedian said in the 2015 movie “Spotlight.”
I watched this movie last week for the third time. Even then, I did not realize how relevant the issue of sexual abuse in the Catholic church still is today.
Nor did I think that it would hit so close to home.
Last Wednesday, it was revealed that a former Connecticut priest is being accused of sexual abuse toward Kevin Distasio, an altar boy at the Waterbury Blessed Sacrament Church in 1980.
The Waterbury Church is only half an hour away from Quinnipiac.
Now, 38 years later, 46-year-old Distasio is suing.
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