BUFFALO (NY)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Posted by David Clohessy on August 20, 2012
A former Buffalo area Catholic priest’s name appears on a list of priests ‘guilty of sexual misconduct,’ according to yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer. The Rev. Ted Podson taught at the Buffalo-area Devon Prep school before leaving the school when he accused of sexually assaulting a child. He was named on a list that was compiled in 1994 by recently-convicted Msgr. William Lynn.
A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is urging Buffalo Catholic officials – including Bishop Richard Malone – to reach out to anyone in the area who may have seen, suspected or suffered the cleric’s crimes.
“It is more likely than not that there are other victims in the Buffalo area,” said David Clohessy of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. “We just want to find them and help them heal.”
Msgr. Lynn’s list was recently made public during his trial, but had been hidden since the list was made and shown to then Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua in Philadelphia. Of the five men on the list, four have since been publicly accused, prosecuted, or sued, and three were never named until Lynn’s trial. Those three men are Rev. Podson, Rev. Stanley Jankowski and Rev. DePaul Sobotka (both members of the Franciscan order and currently living in Wisconsin).
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