WESTCHESTER (NY)
News12
October 15, 2019
A popular priest from the Hudson Valley is the latest to be accused of sexual abuse.
Monsignor Edward Weber, who preached at Saint Francis of Assisi in West Nyack, is facing charges for allegedly raping a boy at least 150 times while at a parish in Staten Island in the 1970s and 1980s.
Weber was the pastor in West Nyack between 1994 and 2012. Part of the West Nyack church is even named in his honor – an educational center for kids.
Terri McCullagh says she’s known Monsignor Weber for decades. She says he baptized all her three children and remains a close friend.
“I’ve known him for so long and I just can’t see him doing this. He is the most kind, gentle person you could ever meet,” she says.
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