May 08, 2008
New Revelations in Homosexual Priest-Abuse Case
The Rev. Edward Paquette was suspended from parish work by the Fall River, Mass., diocese early in his career after police found him parked in a car with a boy, a jury at a clergy sex abuse trial was told today. "He had been picked up by the police while parked with a teen-age boy," the Rev. Timothy O'Connor of Westfield, Mass., wrote in a letter to an Indiana bishop in 1963 who was thinking of hiring Paquette. "He was held at the station until the arrival of his pastor, but was not booked." The letter was among a number of confidential documents made public for the first time today during questioning of Vermont diocesan officials by Jerome O’Neill, the attorney for a former Burlington altar boy who has sued the diocese on claims he was molested by Paquette between 1976 and 1978.Click Here For The Full Story......
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