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...