DENTON (TX)
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
By DARREN BARBEE
STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER
DENTON - The Rev. Daniel A. Triulzi, a priest of the Marianist order, has been removed from St. Mark Catholic Church in Denton pending an investigation of sexual abuse allegations in St. Louis.
Last week, an Indiana man filed a lawsuit against Triulzi, the religious order and a Missouri prep school saying that the priest abused him in the late 1990s when he was a minor. One of the man's attorneys, Ken Chackes of St. Louis, said Triulzi gave his client expensive gifts, including a car, to buy his silence.
Triulzi could not be reached for comment late Wednesday. Triulzi taught at Nolan Catholic High School in Fort Worth from 1983 to 1987, according to a Fort Worth Roman Catholic Diocese statement. He serves as associate pastor at St. Mark.
Diane Guerra, spokeswoman for the Marianist Province of the United States, said Wednesday that Triulzi was on his way to St. Louis to meet with officials of the order.