Posted on 09/19/2019 6:05:53 PM PDT by marshmallow
Hubbard named in new Child Victims Act lawsuit
ALBANY — Former Catholic Bishop Howard J. Hubbard has been accused of sexual abuse in a second civil complaint — this one alleging he and two other Albany priests sexually assaulted a teenage girl repeatedly in the rectory of Immaculate Conception Church in Schenectady in the late 1970s.
In a statement released Monday, Hubbard denied the new claim and reiterated his earlier assertion that he has never sexually abused anyone.
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“I saw another of my heroes last night at St. Patrick’s: the great and kind emeritus Bishop of Albany Howard Hubbard.” - Fr Jim Martin, SJ, 9/25/15.
https://twitter.com/jamesmartinsj/status/647366109084155904?lang=en
If Hubbard is one of Fr Jim’s “heroes,” I’m kinda doubting that he went after a teenaged girl.
When I lived in New York, that bishop was referred to as “Howard the Homo Hubbard”.
Not a girl. I’d bet on that.
I thought they only did little boys in the rectory....
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