ROCHESTER (NY)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
January 31, 2019
By Sean Lahman and Steve Orr
MORE VICTIMS HAVE REACHED OUT TO THE DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE AND BRIGHTON POLICE ABOUT ALLEGED ABUSE AT MCQUAID JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL.
When Tom Chiarella read last month about sexual abuse allegations against seven priests once assigned to his alma mater, McQuaid Jesuit High School, he was sick to his stomach.
Chiarella had known that sexual abuse had occurred at the Brighton secondary school because he was a victim of it. The trauma hung over his head for years before he could find a way out.
His personal escape culminated in the bold step of telling the world what had happened to him in an article for Esquire magazine in 2003 called “My Education.” Chiarella recounted how French teacher John J. Tobin had harassed, stalked and sexually abused him between 1975 and his graduation in 1979.
What disturbed Chiarella were allegations that came to light Jan. 15, when a regional Jesuit organization named 50 priests who had been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors. Seven of those priests once taught at McQuaid.
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