NEW YORK
Glens Falls Post-Star
Ken Tingley
The New York Roman Catholic archdiocese has announced it is willing to pay off the victims of pedophile priests in exchange for their silence.
Any records of such abuse and what the church did about it would also remain private.
It’s an attempt by the church to again avoid accountability and responsibility for the abuse of children.
It should hit home in this community.
It should be an outrage here because of what Father Gary Mercure did in Queensbury and Glens Falls.
He served as priest at Our Lady of Annunciation in Queensbury from 1982 to 1991.
He was the campus minister at Adirondack Community College from 1982 to 1999.
He was the principal at St. Mary’s-St. Alphonsus Regional Catholic School from 1991 to 1995 as well as a priest at St. Mary’s.
And he was convicted in a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, courtroom in 2011 of three counts of forcible rape on a child younger than 14.
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