ROCHESTER (NY)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
June 14, 2018
By Meaghan M. McDermott and Sean Lahman
A Spencerport woman who has accused a priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester of sexual abuse shared her story Thursday morning on the steps of Sacred Heart Cathedral.
Carol DuPré is one of a group of accusers who say they were sexually abused by Rochester area priests when they were children. Mitchell Garabedian, a Boston attorney who has spent decades representing such victims, last week named eight priests from the diocese who 15 men and two women say abused them between 1950 and 1978.
DuPré said she was molested by Father G. Stuart Hogan when she was 15 and 16 years old in 1962 and 1963.
“It started after mass one Sunday when he asked me to go back to the rectory to help count the offering,” she said. “It put me in a precarious position where he began the molestation, and that’s all I want to talk about as far as details.”
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