Ex-priest convicted of sex assault

Green Bay, Wisconsin --

It took a Brown County jury 39 minutes to decide that former priest Donald Buzanowski was not praying with the 10-year-old boy he was counseling at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in 1988.

They decided he was preying on the fifth-grader and convicted him Wednesday of two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child. Buzanowski now faces up to 40 years in prison.

For 27-year-old David Schauer, who has been telling people of the molestation for 15 years, the guilty verdict was a sweet sound.

“For so long I’ve gone without feeling believed, thinking that I was the only one this has ever happened to,” Schauer said. “Knowing they heard what happened and they believed me, it gives me a lot of strength.

“Being believed is unbelievable to me,” he said. “I’m no longer an alleged victim. There’s something to having the title victim and not be someone who is alleging these incidents happened.

“Finally he’s guilty. He’s been through the system and had a fair trial.”

Read the article at Green Bay Press-Gazette Dated July 28, 2005

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