BUFFALO (NY)
WGRZ
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Father Secondo Casarotto, a priest at St Anthony of Padua in Downtown Buffalo, was recently removed from the parish. Earlier this week, the Diocese of Buffalo would only say the removal was due to a personnel matter.
Now, the attorney for a woman who accused the priest of sexual assaulting her – is speaking out.
Channel 2 News obtained a copy of the police report filed in June. In it the alleged victim, who’s in her 30s, says the sexual assault took place in the bedroom of the St. Anthony of Padua parish rectory back in August of 2009.
The diocese says the first they heard about all this was when the alleged victim’s attorney sent them a letter at the end of last year. That was several months after Father Secondo was investigated by police.
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