UPDATE:: At least 19 Buffalo priests publicly linked to sex allegations
The Rev. Norbert F. Orsolits isn't the only priest in the Catholic
Diocese of Buffalo who's been publicly accused of inappropriate sexual
conduct.
At least 19 priests who worked in the Buffalo area have been publicly
accused in recent decades, according to a search of The News archives.
Some were arrested. Some were named in lawsuits. Some were accused of wrongdoing outside of Western New York.
They represent a fraction of the priests who have been the targets of
complaints privately filed with the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo.
In 2004, the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo said 93 complaints alleging
sexual abuse had been lodged against 53 clerics in the diocese since
1950. The diocese has refused to identify most of those men. At the
time, those about whom complaints had been filed represented 2.6 percent
of all clerics who served between 1950 and 2002.
I include this story only because of the local ramifications. Due to SOLs I don't believe there will any criminal charges stemming from Orsolits' admission.
A retired priest, who admitted this week to sexually
abusing dozens of teenage boys decades ago, served in Olean and
Portville during the 1980s.
The Rev. Norbert Orsolits
admitted to The Buffalo News Tuesday he sexually abused “probably
dozens” of teenage boys during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Orsolits,
now 78 and living in Ashford, was assigned to St. Mary of the Angels
Church in Olean from 1982 to 1983 and Sacred Heart Church in Portville
from 1984 to 1988, during which time he also taught at Archbishop Walsh
High School in Olean.
According to Orsolits, he was
assigned to Sacred Heart after the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo received a
complaint he sexually abused a child and ordered him to receive
psychological treatment at a Canadian facility.
Priest who admitted to child sex abuse worked at St. Mary of the Angels, Archbishop Walsh during ’80s | News | oleantimesherald.com
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