GREEN BAY (WI)
Post-Crescent
By Andy Nelesen
Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers
GREEN BAY — It took a Brown County jury 39 minutes to decide that former priest Donald Buzanowski was not praying with the 10-year-old boy he was counseling at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in 1988.
They decided he was preying on the fifth-grader and convicted him Wednesday of two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child. Buzanowski now faces up to 40 years in prison.
For 27-year-old David Schauer, who has been telling people of the molestation for 15 years, the guilty verdict was a sweet sound.
“For so long I’ve gone without feeling believed, thinking that I was the only one this has ever happened to,” Schauer said. “Knowing they heard what happened and they believed me, it gives me a lot of strength.