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I-Team: Catholic Religious Orders Brace for New Wave of NY Lawsuits


Pfau is already planning to sue two religious orders   the Franciscan Friars and the Christian Brothers for alleged sex abuse cases in Albany and the Buffalo areas. 
In one of those cases, Fr. Luke Rutter, a Franciscan priest who worked at St. Francis High School in Athol Springs, New York, is accused of molesting Scott Heldwein a student in the 1980s who lived in the school’s freshman and sophomore dormitories. 
“He would take me to dinners at nice restaurants and all that,” Heldwein said. “The abuse always happened when – I don’t know if he slipped something in my drink or whatever – but it always happened when alcohol and marijuana was involved.”  ....

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