BUFFALO (NY)
WKBW
May 10, 2018
By Charlie Specht
[Now includes video of 5/10/18 report on Bishops Head and Trautman.]
From the day he arrived in Buffalo on a snowy day in 1972, to his death in 2005, he was known as a kind, approachable and gentle shepherd of Catholics in Western New York.
“Bishop Head was in many ways a great man,” said attorney Steve Boyd, who worked for the bishop for two years. “But great men fail.”
The failures of Head and other bishops to stop the abuse of children by priests under their supervision — and to make a full accounting to the public of those crimes — becomes more apparent by the day.
In the last two months, 64 priests in Buffalo have been accused of sexual misconduct, most with children. The majority of priests served during the tenures of Head and his successor, but the full scope of the abuse is only now coming to light.
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