When Niagara Falls attorney Paul K. Barr was sexually abused by the Rev. Michael Freeman in 1980, the Diocese of Buffalo quietly transferred the priest.
Diocesan leaders chose the Rev. Bernard M. Mach as his replacement -- but Mach was a pedophile, too. And when Barr confided in another church leader -- a youth minister at
Sacred Heart Church -- about the abuse, Barr had no idea of knowing he
was talking to someone who would also go on to be accused of sexually
abusing minors.
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