INDIANAPOLIS (IN)
Indianapolis Star
November 2, 2018
By Holly V. Hays
It’s been 30 years, and Brian Cook is still trying to understand what happened to him during the summer of 1980.
As his friends mowed lawns, played baseball and rode through Fort Wayne on their 10-speed bikes, Cook stood at the precipice of a dark, decades-long journey.
Cook was sexually abused by a priest in the St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Fort Wayne during a series of meetings in 1980, he told IndyStar during a recent interview.
The former Fr. Michael Buescher is among 20 priests or deacons identified by the Fort Wayne-South Bend diocese as being “credibly” accused of sexually abusing minors. He was assigned to Cook’s parish, St. Charles Borromeo, from 1979 to 1984.
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