Fr. Joseph L. Sredzinski
First named publicly as accused in the 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report. Included on the Diocese’s list of credibly accused in 8/2018. Died in 2015. Found in 5/1991 by police with a young boy in a car parked at night in a cemetery. The mayor of Everson met with Fr. Roger Statnick about the incident, and relayed concerns from the community about Sredzinski spending too much time with boys. Allegation in 6/1991 of misconduct while swimming with a boy, and of inappropriate touch with the boy on a drive to Cleveland. The boy’s father forbade Sredzinski’s contact with his son. In 4/2002 a woman told the Diocese that Sredzinski sexually abused her relative in 1985 in Brownsville, PA. Accused in a 6/2020 lawsuit of raping and sexually abusing a boy 1991-1997, beginning when the boy was age 11. Per the suit, Sredzinski invited other priests to the rectory to rape the boy during orgies, and the abuse also occurred at church-sponsored events in Washington DC. The suit was filed in DC.
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