THE ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD, CT, HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT FR. TORIBIO VILLACASTIN, A FILIPINO VISITING PRIEST WHO WAS STATIONED AT ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI PARISH IN NAUGATUCK, CT, SEXUALLY ABUSED A MINOR FEMALE CHILD BY SETTLING A FINANCIAL CLAIM IN THE LOW SIX-FIGURES

PARISHIONERS OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NAUGATUCK, CT MUST BE MADE AWARE THAT FR. TORIBIO VILLACASTIN, AN INTERNATIONAL VISITING PRIEST, WAS A PREDATOR OF CHILDREN.

HOW MANY MORE CHILDREN WERE SEXUALLY ABUSED BY FR. TORIBIO VILLACASTIN?

FR. TORIBIO VILLACASTIN WAS ALSO ASSIGNED BY THE ARCHBISHOP AT THE TIME TO SERVE AT ST. ISAAC JOGUES PARISH IN EAST HARTFORD, CT.

THE VICTIM INVOLVED IN THE FINANCIAL SETTLEMENT WAS REPEATEDLY SEXUALLY ABUSED BY FR. TORIBIO VILLACASTIN WHEN HE WAS ASSIGNED TO ST. ISAAC JOGUES PARISH, EAST HARTFORD, CT AND JUST BEFORE HE WENT TO ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI PARISH, NAUGATUCK, CT

WHAT

A demonstration alerting the parishioners of St. Francis Parish, Naugatuck, CT, that a predator priest, Fr. Toribio Villacastin, visiting from the Philippines, was allowed to work in the Hartford Archdiocese for years, and that the Archdiocese recently settled a clergy sexual abuse case of Fr. Villacastin with a woman who was sexually abused when she was 8-9 years old in approximately 1969-1970.

WHEN

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2023 from 8:30 am until Noon (8:00 am and 10:30 am Masses)

WHERE

On the public sidewalk outside St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church, 318 Church Street, Naugatuck, CT 06770

WHO
Robert M. Hoatson, Ph.D., advocate for the woman who was sexually abused by Fr. Toribio Villacastin; a former religious brother and Newark, NJ Archdiocesan priest (ordained by Theodore McCarrick in 1997)

WHY

See above

CONTACT

Road to Recovery, Inc. – P.O. Box 279, Livingston, New Jersey 07039 – 862-368-2800 – roberthoatson@gmail.com