NEW YORK
Newsday
Updated May 6, 2016
By Bart Jones bart.jones@newsday.com
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 than a decade ago.
“Murphy is acting incredibly recklessly,” said David Clohessy, director of the Chicago-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. “How does he justify not even temporarily ousting [Father] Greg while an investigation is done? That’s what he and his brother bishops have promised for years now, but refusing to do time and time again.”
If Murphy doesn’t act, church officials including Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York should “discipline and denounce him for his recklessness,” Clohessy said in a statement.
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