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== Career == |
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==Abuse affairs== |
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Edward Paquette | |
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| Born | 1928 (age 95–96) |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | Priest |
| Years active | 1957 - 1990s |
| Known for | Clerical child sexual abuse scandals |
Edward Paquette (born 1928) is an American former Roman Catholic priest who was laicized for the numerous clerical child sexual abuse affairs he was involved in within several dioceses of the United States.
Career
He was ordained in 1957.[citation needed]
Abuse affairs
Abuse in Fall River
Father Edward Paquette, who was kicked out of the Diocese of Fall River and stripped of his priestly faculties in 1963 after accusations of "improper behavior" with young boys, only to resurface a year later as a priest in Indiana and then in Vermont.[1]
Abuse in Springfield in Massachusetts
Although he established the Diocesan Misconduct Commission in response to sexual abuse among the clergy,[2] bishop John Aloysius Marshall accepted Rev. Edward Paquette despite the repeated allegations of child molestation against him.[3] Marshall even said that he was "determined to take the risk of leaving [Paquette] in his present assignment" despite "the demands of...irate parents that 'something be done about this.'"[citation needed]
Abuse in Fort Wayne-South Bend
A lawsuit filed in 2006 alleged that Paquette molested boys in Indiana parishes affiliated to the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend.[4]
Abuse in Burlington
Paquette was accused in 23 lawsuits of molesting altar boys in Vermont during the 1970s. He abused several children there while John Aloysius Marshall was bishop.[5]
Laicization and retirement
Paquette was later removed from the priesthood several decades later on the order of Pope Benedict XVI. He apologized in 2009 for the crimes he had committed against his victims and their families.[6]
References
- ^ Ex-Fall River priest, alleged pedophile, defrocked
- ^ Cullen, Kevin (2002-03-23). "Priest cites cost for speaking out". The Boston Globe.
- ^ Hemingway, Sam (2008-05-06). "New Revelations in Priest-Abuse Case". The Burlington Free Press.
- ^ Burlington Free Press April 5, 2006
- ^ Former diocese priest faces sex abuse trial
- ^ Ex-priest apologizes for abuse