WISCONSIN
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel
April 18, 2013
The Wauwatosa priest suspended after a teacher reported what she considered sexually inappropriate contact with a child has been the subject of numerous complaints by parents and others over the years, according to a Wauwatosa Police report.
Father Robert Marsicek had been repeatedly counseled by the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and his religious order, the Society of the Divine Savior, about “boundary” issues and was told to stop hugging and touching children.
In one case, a mother reported that Marsicek touched her daughter’s genitalia through her clothes, but the case was not turned over to police, and there appears to be no record of it at the archdiocese or the religious order.
Two Milwaukee archbishops had been made aware of complaints over the years, Archbishop Jerome Listecki in June 2012 and then-Archbishop Timothy Dolan – now a cardinal and archbishop of New York – in 2005.
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