BINGHAMTON (NY)
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin via Press Connects
June 5, 2020
By Anthony Borrelli
A former Seton Catholic student’s lawsuit under New York’s Child Victims Act accuses a former basketball coach there of sexually abusing him more than two dozen times in the early 1970s.
The lawsuit filed May 28 in the state Supreme Court of Broome County claims coach Vincent Dutkowski, who died in 2012, used his position to gain the victim’s trust and confidence before abusing him.
In 1972, the lawsuit says, the 14-year-old boy enrolled at the former Seton Catholic High School in Endicott. When he was about 14 to 16, he helped out as a ballboy and assistant during basketball practices.
Dutkowski allegedly used those encounters to sexually abuse the teen on approximately 25 occasions and at different locations, including an office and at Dutkowski’s home, according to the lawsuit. The victim now resides in California.
Seton Catholic Central in Binghamton and the former Seton Catholic High School in Endicott are defendants in the lawsuit, along with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse. The former Seton Catholic and Catholic Central high schools merged in 1976.
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