NEW YORK
CBS 6
[with video]
Updated: Monday, October 14 2013
ALBANY — The disturbing details of accusations against former Albany Diocese Priest Gary Mercure have been unsealed by the diocese.
A Vermont attorney representing one alleged victim of Mercure, in a civil case against the former priest and the Albany Diocese, has successful encouraged a judge to have documents of the accusers revealed.
The 88 pages of accusations are redacted with the alleged victims name’s gone. Mercure, a former priest in Queensbury, Glens Falls, and Albany is currently serving a 25 year sentence, in a Massachusetts, for raping two boys on a ski trip to the Berkshires.
Several other alleged victims came forward claiming they were abused in New York State however because of the statute of limitations Mercure can no longer be charged for those accusations.
According to the documents Mercure would steal money fro the parish he was serving at and lavish young boys with gifts to gain their trust. Large amounts of cash, which he would give the alleged victims, was kept in his dresser drawer, according to victim’s statements.
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