ROCHESTER (NY)
Mount Pleasant Daily Voice
June 7, 2018
By Zak Failla and Joe Lombardi
A former priest in Westchester was among eight named by a prominent Boston attorney on Wednesday who allegedly sexually abused children decades ago.
On the steps of Sacred Heart Cathedral in Rochester on Wednesday, attorney Mitchell Garabedian announced the names of eight pastors – including Thomas J. Valenti, who served at St. John the Baptist Church in Yonkers for a decade before departing in 2014 – who are alleged to have sexually abused more than a dozen children while serving at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester.
Valenti currently serves as the parochial administrator at Blessed Trinity St. Patrick’s parish in Owego. Allegations against him in Rochester stem from his time as a deacon around 1976 and continued at his next stop in Ontario in Wayne County. Garabedian also called on him to resign his current position.
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