Retired Priest Indicted on Child Rape Charges
From Times Wire Reports
MASSACHUSETTS
A retired priest accused of repeatedly sexually abusing an altar boy from 1989 to 1992 was indicted in Boston on child rape charges.
Father Ronald H. Paquin, 59, who was arrested last week at his home in Malden, was being held on $100,000 bail pending his arraignment next week on three counts of child rape, said a spokesman for the Essex County district attorney’s office. The abuse allegedly started when the boy was 12.
The priest’s attorney didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment.
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