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Oops, Bellevelle MA Catholic Priest In Trouble for Molesting Own Brother |
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/local/14359707.htm
Defrocked priest could be charged
Statute of limitations on hold for abuse
BY GEORGE PAWLACZYK
News-Democrat
A defrocked priest living in Belleville, who admitted he sexually
molested boys in Massachusetts decades ago, could be prosecuted if a
victim comes forth and statute-of-limitation requirements are met.
And if a prosecution is brought against the Rev. Real Bourque, 78, a
resident of the St. Henry Oblate Retirement home on North 60th Street,
a potential witness could be another priest who told church officials
in Massachusetts that Bourque abused that priest's brother.
That priests' brother wrote a 1994 letter to Cardinal Bernard Law,
former archbishop of Boston, stating that in 1979 Bourque had abused
him in South Natick, Mass., where Bourque was then assigned. The
letter also referred to Bourque sexually molesting members of a local
boys choir.
"For any time the alleged perpetrator is not in the State of
Massachusetts, the time on the statute of limitations stops..." said
Emily LaGrassa, spokesman for the Middlesex County district attorney's
office, which has jurisdiction over South Natick.
Furnished with copies of two News-Democrat articles from last week
about Bourque and with copies of the alleged victim's letter to
Cardinal Law and Law's sympathetic response, LaGrassa said Friday,
"I'm not really in a position to make an opinion as to whether or not
this case, if there is a case, could be prosecuted."
LaGrassa said that two requirements to prosecute a sexual assault in
her county are that the crime falls within the statute of limitations
and that a victim is willing to come forward and testify.
The copy of the 1994 letter to Law obtained by the News-Democrat came
from a civil court file and had the alleged victim's name and address
redacted. However, the complete letter including the name of the
alleged victim would be available to Massachusetts police and
prosecutors.
Last week, current and former Diocese of Belleville officials
including former Bishop Wilton Gregory, now the Archbishop of Atlanta,
stated they had no knowledge that Bourque had been transferred to the
retirement home in 2002. Gregory said through a spokesman that had he
known about Bourque's child molesting past, he would not have allowed
the priest to reside in the diocese.
The retirement home's supervisor, the Rev. James Taylor, has said
Bourque had confessed his sexual abuse to other retired priests during
a meeting about six months after his arrival. Bourque also told a
News-Democrat reporter that he sexually abused boys and had been
abused himself as a child, but declined further comment.
In 2004, the Middlesex County district attorney in Massachusetts
successfully prosecuted suspended priest Romano Ferraro for raping a
boy from 1970 until 1981. Ferraro, who had lived out of state, was
sentenced to life in prison.
And in nearby Norfolk County, a former Foxborough priest, who had also
lived out of state, was indicted on Thursday for allegedly raping a
girl younger than 14 nearly 40 years ago.
According to a time-table compiled by the Masschusetts-based,
non-profit Bishop Accountability Project, Bourque was assigned outside
of Massachusetts for at least 19 years during the 27 years since 1979,
the earliest reference in letters to church officials from the civil
case file of sexual abuse by Bourque.
The normal six-year statute of limitations in Massachusetts for sexual
abuse of a child is six years. If a rape occurred in 1979, the normal
statute of limitations would expire in 1985.
Deducting the 19 years that Bourque may have been out of Massachusetts
leaves a total of eight years that he could have remained in that
state after the alleged molestation mentioned in the letter to the
former archbishop. If victims are found from later years, Bourque
could conceivably be prosecuted in other cases, too.
In 1979, a letter from the Boston civil court file refers to a
"sabbatical" taken by Bourque to Washington, D.C., for "counseling."
The same letter refers to "incidents in Maine before Natick," where
Bourque allegedly molested children in that state.
But it was not until 1994, according to still another letter from the
same court file, that Bourque was sent to a Catholic Church-operated
center in Maryland that specializes in treatment of pedophilia. He
left after about a year.
When released, he was allowed to return to working for the Catholic
sponsored cable television station EWTN in Birmingham, Ala., but not
on camera as he had done before with his own show, "Let your light
shine."
However, in 2002, the year Bourque retired to Belleville, he was
listed on EWTN's Web site as a speaker at a national conclave for
teenagers.
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Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
The Bush 'balanced' budget: 2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: 12.5 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -2375 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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"Ahhhhhh, yessssssss, ummmmmmm - Alito, Alito, Alito"
-duke (duckgumbo@cox.net), aka PedophilEarl J Weber, 59
year old mateless, heirless biological failure
of Afton Oaks Apartment, Baton Rouge,who pussied
out of the Vietnam draft, showing his gay side
despite his avowed anti-gay bigotry
Contact duke's priest and ask
him why duke is such a racist:
http://www.stpatrickbr.org/
Father Gerard "Jerry" Martin
stpatrickbr<AT>bellsouth<DOT>net
Saint Patrick Catholic Church
12424 Brogdon Lane
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816
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17 Apr 2006 11:11:56 AM |
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"Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's Cocaine Snorting *****"
<eacmole@/*AWOLBUSH*/mail.com> wrote in message
news:r7a7425tdvc19pnust03ci4neivgoqfr3q@4ax.com...
: http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/local/14359707.htm
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: Defrocked priest could be charged
: Statute of limitations on hold for abuse
: BY GEORGE PAWLACZYK
: News-Democrat
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: A defrocked priest living in Belleville, who admitted he sexually
: molested boys in Massachusetts decades ago, could be prosecuted if a
: victim comes forth and statute-of-limitation requirements are met.
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: And if a prosecution is brought against the Rev. Real Bourque, 78, a
: resident of the St. Henry Oblate Retirement home on North 60th
Street,
: a potential witness could be another priest who told church
officials
: in Massachusetts that Bourque abused that priest's brother.
Ummmm....I hate to tell you this, but your subject line is incorrect.
It was _another_ priest's brother, not his own.
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| User: "Yang, AthD h.c, Kicking AWOLs Cocaine Snorting Ass" |
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17 Apr 2006 10:26:38 PM |
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:11:56 GMT, "Prunefinger"
<misleart@ameritech.net> wrote:
"Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's Cocaine Snorting *****"
<eacmole@/*AWOLBUSH*/mail.com> wrote in message
news:r7a7425tdvc19pnust03ci4neivgoqfr3q@4ax.com...
: http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/local/14359707.htm
:
: Defrocked priest could be charged
: Statute of limitations on hold for abuse
: BY GEORGE PAWLACZYK
: News-Democrat
:
: A defrocked priest living in Belleville, who admitted he sexually
: molested boys in Massachusetts decades ago, could be prosecuted if a
: victim comes forth and statute-of-limitation requirements are met.
:
: And if a prosecution is brought against the Rev. Real Bourque, 78, a
: resident of the St. Henry Oblate Retirement home on North 60th
Street,
: a potential witness could be another priest who told church
officials
: in Massachusetts that Bourque abused that priest's brother.
Ummmm....I hate to tell you this, but your subject line is incorrect.
It was _another_ priest's brother, not his own.
Ummm... I think you're... right.
Doh!
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Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
The Bush 'balanced' budget: 2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: 12.5 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -2375 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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"Ahhhhhh, yessssssss, ummmmmmm - Alito, Alito, Alito"
-duke (duckgumbo@cox.net), aka PedophilEarl J Weber, 59
year old mateless, heirless biological failure
of Afton Oaks Apartment, Baton Rouge,who pussied
out of the Vietnam draft, showing his gay side
despite his avowed anti-gay bigotry
Contact duke's priest and ask
him why duke is such a racist:
http://www.stpatrickbr.org/
Father Gerard "Jerry" Martin
stpatrickbr<AT>bellsouth<DOT>net
Saint Patrick Catholic Church
12424 Brogdon Lane
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816
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| User: "Attila" |
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| Title: Re: Oops, Bellevelle MA Catholic Priest In Trouble for Molesting Own Brother |
17 Apr 2006 01:49:34 PM |
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:05:17 -0700, "Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's
Cocaine Snorting *****" <eacmole@/*AWOLBUSH*/mail.com> in alt.abortion
with message-id <r7a7425tdvc19pnust03ci4neivgoqfr3q@4ax.com> wrote:
Off topic spam.
What does this have to do with abortion or the Freedom of Choice?
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