Buffalo Diocese Accused of Yearslong Cover-Up of Sexual Abuse
NEW YORK (NY)
New York Times
November 23, 2020
By Liam Stack
The state Attorney General said in a lawsuit that two former top leaders helped shelter more than two dozen priests accused of harming children.
The New York attorney general’s office on Monday accused the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo and three bishops connected to it of violating church policy and state law with their involvement in a yearslong cover-up of sexual abuse by priests.
The lawsuit is the first state legal action against the Catholic Church in New York since a new wave of abuse investigations began in 2018, and it is the culmination of just one of eight inquiries, one for each Catholic diocese in the state. The other seven inquiries are ongoing.
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