Fr. Richard P. Judd

Ordained for the Servants of the Paraclete, later a priest of the Buffalo diocese. Died in 1988. In 2002 a man told a news outlet that Judd abused him when he was a student at St. Teresa’s Elementary School in South Buffalo in the summer of 1975. Named as accused in 3/2003 by the Tucson diocese. Lived in Tucson in the early 1970s, assigned to Salpointe Catholic High School and two parishes. On Buffalo diocese’s 3/20/2018 list. Accused in lawsuits under the NY Child Victims Act in 8/2019 of: abuse 1977-1978 of a 14-year-old who attended Nativity of the BVM; arranging for three teenage boys to have sex with an older girl in the rectory of St. Teresa’s in Niagara Falls and participating; abuse, along with Fr. Basil Ormsby, of a 13-year-old at St. Teresa’s in South Buffalo in the mid-1970s. By 8/2021 Judd had been accused in 13 lawsuits filed under the NY Child Victims Act. Included on the Santa Fe archdiocese’s list 5/19/2021 (with an erroneous death date.)