BUFFALO (NY)
WKBW-TV – 7 Eyewitness News
August 3, 2018
By Charlie Specht
Alleged victim speaks with 7 Eyewitness News
Fr. Gerald P. Sheehan, a deceased priest who served throughout Western New York over a career that spanned 40 years, has been accused of sexually abusing a young girl.
The allegation was recently reported to the diocese by a woman who said she was between 7 and 14 years old and a member of Nativity of Our Lord Church in Orchard Park when she suffered sexual abuse at the hands of the priest in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Sheehan died in 2006.
“This has affected everything in my life,” the woman told 7 Eyewitness News in a phone interview. “It’s really hard to understand why I wasn’t protected and why he was allowed to function.”
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