GREEN BAY (WI)
Duluth News Tribune
Associated Press
GREEN BAY, Wis. - A former priest convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in 1988 was sentenced to prison Friday after hearing the victim say he still is struggling to recover from effects of the abuse.
Donald Buzanowski, 62, apologized to the victim, David Schauer, during the sentencing Friday in Brown County Circuit Court.
Under sentencing laws in effect at the time of the crimes, Buzanowski must serve about eight years of his 32-year term before first becoming eligible for parole, and his mandatory date for release from prison is after just over 21 years.
He was found guilty by a jury July 27 on two counts of assaulting Schauer when Schauer was a fifth-grader at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic School.
"David, I'm sorry," Buzanowski said.