Lawyers for the alleged victims call Monsignor Otto Garcia a 'fixer' for pedophile priests and 'the Michael Cohen of the Brooklyn Diocese.'
A popular Catholic priest has been named in two sex abuse lawsuits filed this week in New York City.
The abuse allegedly occurred between 1971 and 1973, when Davis was an altar boy at St. Michael's Church in Flushing, Queens. His family was fully enmeshed in church life—his mother was a teacher in the parish school and his father was the parish basketball coach. Davis got a job answering phones in the rectory and Garcia would allegedly come by to visit alone.
Getting a job at a local grocery store, Davis finally quit working at the rectory. But he still couldn't bring himself to come forward with the abuse because his parents—and his community—held Father Garcia in such high regard. Later, as an adult working as head plumber at Shea Stadium, he feared speaking out would damage his career.
This is the first time Garcia's been accused of abuse himself, but he's long been criticized for covering up for other priests: A 2003 lawsuit claimed Garcia"was part of the concerted effort to fraudulently conceal their acts from the plaintiffs and parishioners.", Garcia met with alleged victims in the early 2000s, when dozens of sex abuse cases were first uncovered, and"helped to wash the cases away.
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