[NYer]

The 87-year-old Broderick, who is retired and living on Park Avenue in New York City

From the Poynter Abuse Tracker

Friday, September 12, 2003
ALBANY - A busy day in the ongoing clergy sexual abuse scandal saw a $500,000 settlement, another suit being dropped, an appeal of a previously dismissed suit and an attorney making a motion to get a new judge.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, after "extensive mediation," agreed to pay the victim of former priest Rev. Dozia Wilson for abuse that occurred in the Boston Archdiocese. The victim initially asked for $2 million. The settlement is not part of the recent $85 million settlement between hundreds of victims and the Boston Archdiocese.

Wilson, who was ordained by the Albany Diocese in 1972, was sent to Boston by then Bishop Edwin Broderick in 1976 after the diocese received complaints of sexual impropriety.
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Wednesday, July 9, 2003
ALBANY (NY)
Albany Times Union

By ANDREW TILGHMAN, Staff writer

The 52-year-old Capital Region man referred to in court papers only as John Doe accuses the late Rev. John Mea of raping him repeatedly in the rectory of St. Joseph's Church in Fort Edward. For three years the priest allegedly forced the altar boy to engage in oral and anal sex and told him "that he would go to hell if he were to tell anyone about the sexual misconduct," according to the lawsuit.

The diocese -- led at the time by Bishop Edwin Broderick -- also "used moral arguments to manipulate the plaintiff and his family to convince them not to press criminal charges or pursue any civil causes of action," the lawsuit alleges, without providing details.
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[american colleen]

I think, if I remember correctly, that Bishop B. just happened not to mention the abuse history of this priest to the archdiocese of Boston. He let this priest move - with the young boy in tow - although he knew of the priest's um... propensity for perversion.

It is very painful to see all the Irish names attached to so many involved in some way in the sexual perversion scandals. When I think of my very traditionally and humbly devout Irish born grandparents and wonder about the very traditional and very humbly devout parents of some of these perverted priests and bishops, my heart breaks.

[dsc]

"The 87-year-old Broderick, who is retired and living on Park Avenue in New York City"

How come a retired bishop has enough money to live on Park Avenue in New York City?

"Wilson, who was ordained by the Albany Diocese in 1972, was sent to Boston by then Bishop Edwin Broderick in 1976 after the diocese received complaints of sexual impropriety."

Maybe that sort of moral turpitude answers my question.