Bishop Murphy Criticized for Refusing to Suspend Priest

By Bart Jones
Newsday
May 6, 2016

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Attorney Mike Reck, left, speaks to the media on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, as images of the Rev. Gregory Yacyshyn and a childhood photo of his accuser are displayed. (Credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams Jr.)

A national sex abuse victims group on Friday criticized Bishop William Murphy of the Diocese of Rockville Centre for refusing to suspend from ministry a priest who is accused of abusing two children in a parish where he worked.

The Rev. Gregory Yacyshyn was recently accused in two separate lawsuits of allegedly abusing a boy and a girl while serving at St. Francis of Assisi in Greenlawn more...

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