The DayKaren FlorinBusinessman Bruce J. Bemer and Robert King exchanged photos and text messages about the young men King was providing to Bemer for sexual encounters, according to testimony Thursday at Bemer's sex trafficking trial in Danbury Superior Court."Boyfriends? Are you bringing them to the races?" Bemer asked in one...
Suit: Signs were there – Attorney claims former Waterbury priest preyed on children
Republican-AmericanMichael PufferWATERBURY — An attorney suing the Archdiocese of Hartford claims former priest Louis Paturzo allowed children from troubled homes to sleep in the rectory of Hartford's Sacred Heart Parish.This should have been a red flag for Archdiocese of Hartford officials before his client was abused in the mid-1980s, said attorney Joel...
The rise and fall of Rev. Daniel McSheffery, the ‘sickest, sociopathic monster ever to wear a Roman Catholic collar in Connecticut’
Hartford CourantDave AltimariA grainy photograph from 1964 shows a collar-wearing Rev. Daniel McSheffery receiving his badge from Hartford’s city manager and fire chief – the young priest towering over the city officials appointing him fire chaplain.It was the beginning of the ascendancy of Hartford-born McSheffery: over the next eight years...