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, MA (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.