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Brian Mann on January 16th, 2012
The Albany Times-Union is reporting that Roman Catholic officials are investigating claims that an employee — not a priest — raped several young boys, with some of the assaults allegedly occurring at a camp near Paradox Lake in Essex County.
The accused man, Eugene Hubert Jr., lived in Warrensburg, in Warren County, and passed away in 1997.
Two men who attended a former Catholic elementary school in Albany allege they were sexually abused there by a longtime school custodian when they were 12 and 13 years old.
The accusations, which were not made public by the diocese, were first leveled last year against Eugene Hubert Jr., who worked as a janitor at the former St. Teresa of Avila school on New Scotland Avenue in the 1970s, when the alleged abuse took place.
Tags: adirondacks, criminal justice
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With the alleged purp dead, I presume the game plan is to sue the diocese for money.
A custodian who worked for a school many years ago was a criminal rapist, why is the Catholic Church “investigating” anything? Whatever info they may have should simply be passed on to the DA and Police and let them do their job of investigating crimes.
They have to get out of this role.
So two guys who claim to have been raped by a now deceased perp about 40 years ago decide its time to go public. Why would anyone bother to investigate?
But he is a dead Catholic Janitor, so it is news.
He might not have been a Catholic. He could have been a Baptist or anything or nothing working as a janitor at a Catholic camp.
You don’t have to be a Catholic to work at a Catholic institution.