Fr. Peter Bodenschatz
Named in the 3/1/16 PA Grand Jury Report on the Diocese of Altoona Johnstown among priests “alleged to have engaged in sexually abusive acts with children.” A man reported to Bishop Adamec in 2002 that Bodenschatz sexually abused him on many occasions when the man was an 8th grader and altar boy, in 1940. Bodenschatz was “associated with” St. Mary’s in Nanty-Glo, PA during the time of the alleged abuse. Died 6/10/61.
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