Paul Tracy was 13 years old in 1980 when he decided he wanted to be a paperboy. The job represented the chance to earn his own money and having the corresponding freedom that comes with it. The Democrat and Chronicle…
Ex-D&C employee accused in Child Victims Act lawsuit once arrested for touching paperboys
As horror stories about sexually abusive priests began to dot the Democrat and Chronicle front page, two readers contacted the newspaper out of the blue. They challenged reporters to turn the same scrutiny on their own house. Look into a…
Accused ex-D&C newspaper carrier supervisor once arrested for groping paperboys
A late supervisor of Democrat and Chronicle newspaper delivery carriers, who was accused in a recent lawsuit of sexually abusing a paperboy in the 1980s, was arrested in 1987 on suspicion that he was groping paperboys in a Greece doughnut…
Under NYS Child Victims Act, 54-year-old man sues Diocese of Ogdensburg for childhood abuse
PLATTSBURGH — The day M.G. turned 23, he lost the chance to sue his childhood abuser. Now, nearly three decades later, the Child Victims Act has returned his voice. In his lawsuit against what was once St. John’s Church and…
A former paperboy’s story of sexual abuse
Bates recounted a series of forced sexual acts he said he endured in 1983, when he was 11 and 12 years old, and a paperboy for the Democrat and Chronicle. Now, he is suing the newspaper and its parent company,…
