WISCONSIN
Patch
By Jim Price
Father Robert Marsicek was the subject of a number of complaints about overt physical contact with children over nearly a decade and had repeatedly promised to reduce his contact with students before incidents on March 22 and 26 that led to a police investigation, according to Wauwatosa police reports.
Detectives investigating the recent allegations from a teacher at Wauwatosa Catholic School learned that the Archdiocese of Milwaukee had records dating to 2005 of parental concerns that Marsicek’s physical contact with children went beyond comfortable boundaries.
Marsicek, 71, responded to the police inquiry that his physicality with children is an outgrowth of his own demonstative nature and the children’s warm spirits and has never been for sexual gratification.
But the child in question told officers that on at least one of the occasions, Marsicek had touched and squeezed her breasts, the reports say.
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