ROCHESTER (NY)
Democrat and Chronicle
January 15, 2019
By Sean Lahman and Steve Orr, Rochester
Seven former McQuaid Jesuit High School teachers were identified Tuesday as having been accused of sexually abusing minors during their careers. At least one of the priests engaged in sexual misconduct while on faculty at the Brighton secondary school in the mid-1960’s.
The revelation came in a list of accused priests released Tuesday morning by the Jesuit province that covers the northeastern United States.
A list of the accused abusers and their tenure at McQuaid:
Cornelius Carr, 1960-1964
Thomas Denny, 1978-1979
Roy Drake, 1957-1960
John Farrand, 1955-1957
Leonard Riforgiato, 1964-1966
William Scanlon, 1964-1967
Robert Voelkle, 1962-1969
Two of the priests, Carr and Drake, had been previously identified as having been accused of abuse at other schools. Carr was principal of the school. Drake was a math and science teacher.
But the Jesuit list Tuesday included five more names of priests who spent time at McQuaid and engaged in abusive behavior. None of the five appear to have been publicly identified as abusers before Tuesday.
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