A Suffolk County woman is suing the Diocese of Rockville Centre and others for allegedly ignoring sexual abuse she said she endured for more than a year at the hands of a church music director, the second of two lawsuits filed against the diocese this week.
The now-18-year-old woman claims that when she was 15, Efrain Villafane, the former music director at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Patchogue, sexually assaulted her in the church's chapel and in a classroom. She said Villafane also raped her in his car and at a motel.
https://abc7ny.com/religion/2-lawsuits-accuse-li-diocese-of-turning-blind-eye-to-sex-abuse/4503529/
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