ALBANY (NY)
Albany Times Union
| By <!– document.write('‘); // –> BRIAN NEARING, Staff writer |
| The Albany Roman Catholic Diocese on Wednesday said it has cleared a priest of a decades-old allegation of soliciting sex from teenage boys. The announcement came just hours after the alleged victims’ lawyer accused the diocese of dragging out its investigation. In a written statement, the diocese said it twice found no reasonable grounds to substantiate allegations against the Rev. Robert LeFevre, pastor of St. Peter’s Church in Saratoga Springs. LeFevre “remains a priest in good standing in the Albany Diocese and will remain at his current assignment,” the diocese said. The diocese’s Sexual Misconduct Review Board rejected allegations by two brothers who said LeFevre unsuccessfully propositioned them for sex on separate occasions in 1969, while he was a priest at St. Margaret’s parish in Rotterdam Junction. The brothers, who asked to remain anonymous, were 15 and 17 at the time. |
