In October of 2019, an adult man sued the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island and its Bishop Lawrence Provenzano for underage sexual assault by a lay employee that took place at the former St. Paul’s Episcopal School in Garden City, Long Island. St. Paul’s school is the alma mater of
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Spotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest Albert Reginald Marshall
In August, 2021 an adult man sued the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York and Trinity Episcopal Church, Boonville, New York for underage sexual assault over the course of two years by Episcopal priest Albert Reginald Marshall. Marshall was ordained in 1932 by the Anglican Bishop of Saskatchewan and received
Continue readingSpotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest Heron Aloysius Sam
In September 2019, an adult woman sued the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Crown Heights, Brooklyn for sexual assault by Episcopal priest Heron Aloysius Sam when she was an infant. Heron Sam was ordained in the Anglican Church of Guyana and transferred to the Diocese
Continue readingEpiscopal lay organist Aurilla Gilman Planchock Gibbs
Episcopal lay organist Aurilla Gilman Planchock Gibbs served churches in the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem as a choir director, organist, and music teacher from 1970 to 2002. Gibbs was a case worker for the Children’s Bureau of Monroe County from 1960 to 1975, when she was dismissed following internal grievances
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