Fr. Michael Bucaro
A man sued in 2004 alleging he was sexually abused by Bucaro at St. Matthew’s Church in Corona and in San Diego in the 1980s, beginning when he was age 5. The suit names both dioceses, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and Bucaro’s former Order, the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. San Bernardino denied any record of past complaints of any kind. Bucaro had been working in prison ministry since 1983. He countersued for slander in 2005. The original suit settled in 2008. Included on the San Bernardino diocese’s list of accused 10/9/2018.
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