SPRINGFIELD (MA)
The Republican
Oct. 22, 2019
By Anne-Gerard Flynn
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield is seeking to hire a new investigator to look into reports of clergy sexual abuse of minors for the Diocesan Review Board.
Jeffrey L. Trant, who recently was appointed to lead the diocese’s newly designated Office of Safe Environment and Victim Assistance that oversees such allegations, said the person hired will succeed the first person to hold the position, retired State Police Officer Kevin Murphy. A search for his successor is underway.
“As a result of an ongoing review that the Office of Safe Environment and Victim Assistance is completing since my appointment as director of the office in June, it was determined that there was a need to hire new investigative staff,” Trant said. “Around the same time, Kevin Murphy, who has served as the only investigator for the review board, notified Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski and me of his decision to retire.”
Murphy has been the sole investigator for the Diocesan Review Board since 2004.
“The new investigator will succeed Mr. Murphy in conducting investigations of reports of clergy sexual abuse against children, youth and other vulnerable persons once we are cleared to do so by the district attorney for the jurisdiction where the abuse is reported to have occurred,” Trant said.
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