Long Island diocese’s exit from bankruptcy may signal future path for Buffalo Diocese

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Long Island diocese’s exit from bankruptcy may signal future path for Buffalo Diocese

Richard Tollner knows firsthand what the people who have sex abuse claims against the Buffalo Catholic Diocese are going through as the diocese’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case plods unresolved toward its fifth year. Tollner filed a Child Victims Act lawsuit in 2019 accusing the Rev. Alan Placa of sexually assaulting him in 1975 when he was a 16-year-old student at St. Pius X Preparatory Seminary in Uniondale, which is part of the Town of Hempstead,…