2 Accused in This Religious Order
- Buffalo News 08.14.19
Sister Julia
Also known as Sr. Julieta. Accused in a lawsuit filed in 8/19 under the NY Child Victims Act of abuse of a boy at Corpus Christi, in about 1956-57. The parish school was run by the Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph.
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Sr. Mary Jane Vidnansky
Accused in a 2004 lawsuit of sexually abusing a boy 1974-1976, starting when the boy was a 14-year-old student at Mater Dolorosa School in Holyoke. The abuse is alleged to have included intercourse. The plaintiff said Vidnansky told him she was pregnant by him and that she had had an abortion. Vidnansky left the order in the mid-1970s. She died 10/3/2024.