The Catholic Diocese of Buffalo quietly paid $1.5 million in 2016 to a
man who alleged a priest sexually abused him when he was a teenager
more than three decades ago.
It was the diocese's second financial settlement of a lawsuit
alleging abuse by James A. Spielman, a former diocesan priest who served
in at least six Western New York parishes and taught religion at
Archbishop Walsh High School in Olean.
The settlement is the largest that has come to light so far in the Buffalo Diocese for a clergy sex abuse case.
The News found the case in a recent search of federal court records from Hawaii, where the lawsuit was filed.
The massive settlement added to questions about whether diocesan
officials have disclosed the full extent of clergy sex abuse in Western
New York.
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