WORCESTER (MA)
ChurchMilitant
January 29, 2018
By David Nussman
Now-laicized former priest abused a teenage male in 1985
WORCESTER, Mass. (ChurchMilitant.com) – Pope Francis has now defrocked a Massachusetts priest who was accused of sexually abusing a teenage male.
Peter Inzerillo was a priest in the diocese of Worcester. He has now been laicized at his own request, according to an announcement the diocese made on Thursday. The diocese stated, “As a result of the laicization, he may not function in any capacity as a priest or be referred to as a priest or as ‘Father’ in writing such as in event announcements or obituaries.”
Inzerillo sexually abused a 19-year-old male in 1985. He was not criminally charged. But in 1999, he was named in a sex-abuse lawsuit against the diocese of Worcester. The suit ended in the diocese’s largest-ever priest sex abuse settlement of about $300,000. Inzerillo was removed from public ministry in 2002 and has remained without public faculties ever since.
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