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Former high-ranking LI priest cleared of abuse allegations

Quick ReadMsgr. Alan Placa, a former high-ranking LI priest, has been cleared by the Vatican of a decades-old sex abuse charge.

Msgr. Alan Placa has been cleared by the

Photo credit: Newsday/David L. Pokress | Msgr. Alan Placa has been cleared by the Vatican of a sex abuse allegation.

A former high-ranking Roman Catholic priest in the Diocese of Rockville Centre who was at the center of controversy over an alleged cover-up of priest sex abuse has been cleared by the Vatican of a claim he sexually molested a teenage boy decades ago, the diocese said Friday.

Msgr. Alan Placa, a former vice chancellor in the diocese in charge of investigating priest sex-abuse complaints, was...

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