Fr. John E. Brueckner
First named publicly as accused in the PA Grand Jury report released 8/14/18. A woman contacted the Greensburg diocese in 2016 to report that her husband told her in 2002 that a priest sexually abused him as a boy at St. Joseph’s in New Kensington sometime between 1947 and 1951. He said the abuse happened in a the priest’s car after a baseball game. Brueckner and a Rev. Stewart were priests of St. Joseph at the time. The Greensburg diocese wasn’t established until 1951; New Kensington was part of the Pittsburgh diocese at the time of the alleged abuse. Brueckner died in 1960.
- PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18
- PA Grand Jury Report Profile 08.14.18
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