Fr. Aurelian W. Brzezniak
Parish priest; high school teacher and principal. Died 6/27/2011. Accused in a lawsuit filed in 8/2019 of sexually abusing a 7-year-old boy, along with Revs. James Smyka and Patrick Mendola, at St. Francis High School in the Buffalo diocese in 1977. The accuser claimed the abuse occurred in front of a group of priests in a shower room, and that it continued until he was age 8.
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