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After doctors labeled them as pedophiles, priests were put back in ministry

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Clergy proceed down the aisle at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Harrisburg during a Mass for the Forgiveness August 17, 2018. (Brett Sholtis/WITF)

(Undated) — In July 1985, Father Edmond A. Parrakow was sent to a treatment facility in New Mexico after child sexual abuse allegations were made against him while serving as a priest in the Archdiocese of New York.

At the time, Parrakow was waiting to be accepted into the Diocese of Greensburg, according to a

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