Fr. Lawrence Pizzutti, O.F.M: Accused of Sexual Misconduct

Fr. Lawrence Pizzutti, O.F.M

Ordained: Unknown
Assignments:
  • 1930 St. Anthony’s Seraphic Seminary, Catskill, NY (NY)
  • 1931 -1934 St. Francis Seminary, Lowell, Massachusetts (BO)
  • 1935-1938 Franciscan Monastery and Commissariat of the Holy Land, Brookland, D.C. (BAL)
  • 1939-1942 Unknown 1951-1979 St. Anthony of Padua (Italian), Troy, NY (ALB)
  • 1943 Immaculate Conception Monastery, Troy, NY (ALB)
  • 1944 St. Sebastian, Manhattan, New York, NY (NY)
  • 1945-1946 Mt. Alverinia Seminary, Wappingers Falls, NY (NY); Chapel of the Stigmata of St. Francis, Wappingers Falls, NY (NY)
  • 1947-1949 St. Sebastian, Manhattan, New York, NY (NY)
  • 1950 Immaculate Conception Monastery, Troy, NY (ALB)
  • 1979 Died

 

Fr. Lawrence Pizzutti was ordained a Franciscan priest. In 2001, a man notified the Diocese of Albany that Fr. Pizzutti had sexually abused him multiple times beginning when he was 15 years old in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Later that year, a second survivor reported that Fr. Pizzutti had sexually abused him once when he was 15 years old.