A
former teacher at a Catholic school in Queens who said she had reported
the sexual abuse of seven female students by a priest in 1991 now
claims that the Diocese of Brooklyn covered it up for more than a
decade, allowing more girls to be abused.
The
teacher, Linda Porcaro, said on Wednesday that she is coming forward
now because the victims, on whose behalf she was speaking, are ready to
seek justice. Over the last two months, 23 women who said they were
abused by the former priest, Adam Prochaski, have become clients of the
lawyer, Mitchell Garabedian, who was portrayed in the Oscar-winning film
“Spotlight,” about clergy sex abuse. Most of the women’s claims have been referred to the policehttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/nyregion/adam-prochaski-accused-of-sex-abuse-queens.html
