Father Bill O’Malley had become a Rochester, New York celebrity after a star turn in the supernatural film 'The Exorcist.'
Rochester Democrat and ChronicleFather Bill O’Malley, an outgoing Jesuit teacher who became a Rochester, New York celebrity after a star turn in the supernatural film"The Exorcist," has been accused of sexually abusing one of his students at McQuaid Jesuit High School three decades ago.
But on Wednesday, the first day for bringing old sex-abuse claims under New York’s Child Victims Act, O’Malley’s name appeared, buried deep within in a legal complaint listing a dozen local suspects.Rev. William J. O'Malley, 1984Like most of the complaints filed Wednesday, the language is purposefully vague. It accused O’Malley of sexually abusing a 17-year-old McQuaid student"multiple times" in 1985 and 1986.
O’Malley left McQuaid for Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx after the 1985-86 school year, when the abuse allegedly took place, suggesting a possible connection. It was not uncommon for church, religious orders and school officials, confronted with evidence of sexual misconduct, to shift the accused perpetrator to a new location rather than turning him in to police or dismissing him from the priesthood.
The newspaper found officials at both locations unable to provide basic information about those who had been accused and found the school denied knowing about accusations that earlier school leaders themselves had received and forwarded to police.O'Malley would have to be considered among McQuaid's most celebrated teachers.
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