Fr. Coleman J. Costello
Accused in a 12/20 lawsuit of abusing a boy for two years, starting when the boy was age 13 and homeless in 1971. Costello was assigned at the time of the alleged abuse to St. Francis de Sales in Belle Harbor and ran a Rockaway Beach youth program.
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