Jury convicts former priest of sex assault
Green Bay, Wisconsin --
A Brown County jury took 39 minutes Wednesday to convict a former priest on two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child.
Donald Buzanowski, 62, was accused of molesting 10-year-old David Schauer, a student at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in the fall of 1988. Schauer, now 27, testified Tuesday that Buzanowski fondled him during two counseling sessions at the school.
Schauer reported the abuse in 1990 after his mother found material in his journal indicating her son was being abused. Schauer told a counselor about the attacks, who then informed police. At the time, prosecutors decided not to pursue the case, citing a lack of evidence. Since then, another person came forward with allegations against Buzanowski and the state’s statute of limitations was tweaked to allow the current case to go forward.
Buzanowski stopped acting in the role of priest in May 1989 when he requested and was granted a one-year leave of absence from the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, according to a timeline provided by the diocese.
Buzanowski was denied a request for another leave of absence in 1990. He did not return to the priesthood and was officially suspended from the priesthood in July 1990, according to the diocese.
In January 1992, Buzanowski tendered his resignation from the priesthood, but he was not officially defrocked until officials at the Vatican took action in March 2005.
Read the article at Green Bay Press-Gazette Dated July 27, 2005
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A Brown County jury took 39 minutes Wednesday to convict a former priest on two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child.
Donald Buzanowski, 62, was accused of molesting 10-year-old David Schauer, a student at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in the fall of 1988. Schauer, now 27, testified Tuesday that Buzanowski fondled him during two counseling sessions at the school.
Schauer reported the abuse in 1990 after his mother found material in his journal indicating her son was being abused. Schauer told a counselor about the attacks, who then informed police. At the time, prosecutors decided not to pursue the case, citing a lack of evidence. Since then, another person came forward with allegations against Buzanowski and the state’s statute of limitations was tweaked to allow the current case to go forward.
Buzanowski stopped acting in the role of priest in May 1989 when he requested and was granted a one-year leave of absence from the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, according to a timeline provided by the diocese.
Buzanowski was denied a request for another leave of absence in 1990. He did not return to the priesthood and was officially suspended from the priesthood in July 1990, according to the diocese.
In January 1992, Buzanowski tendered his resignation from the priesthood, but he was not officially defrocked until officials at the Vatican took action in March 2005.
Read the article at Green Bay Press-Gazette Dated July 27, 2005
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