Retired priest from Plymouth charged with rape of boy, 8
http://enterprise.southofboston.com/articles/2005/04/26/news/news/news03.txt
A suspended priest was to be arraigned today in a Brockton court on
charges he raped a boy in Plymouth in 1991, authorities said.
The Rev. Anthony J. Laurano, 80, was indicted earlier this month on two
counts of child rape, according to Bridget Norton Middleton, a
spokeswoman for Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz.
Laurano, who retired from St. Mary's Church in Plymouth in 1995 and has
been living in Hull, was placed on administrative leave in 2002 after
abuse allegations surfaced.
Middleton wouldn't provide any additional information about the
allegations. Laurano's attorney, Santina Gerber, didn't immediately
return a phone call.
Laurano has been free pending his arraignment today in Plymouth Superior
Court in Brockton.
According to Enterprise files, Laurano was ordained a priest in May 1950
and was assigned to St. Mary's parish in north Plymouth at that time. He
left the Plymouth parish in February 1956 to serve at St. Catherine of
Genoa Church in Somerville. His assignments between the Somerville
parish and his return to St. Mary's in Plymouth at a later date could
not be immediately determined.
In January, Laurano was among 17 priests and three lay employees of the
Archdiocese of Boston named in a sex abuse suit filed on behalf of 25
plaintiffs by attorney Carmen Durso of Weymouth, the Patriot Ledger of
Quincy reported.
William Gately, a leader of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused
by Priests, said the victim was 8 when the alleged rapes took place and
is now 22.
Meanwhile, a retired priest extradited from Canada to face sex abuse
charges pleaded innocent Monday to molesting 18 altar boys at a
Bellingham parish in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Rev. Paul M. Desilets, 81, was returned to Massachusetts last week
after he dropped an appeal of his extradition before Canada's highest
court.
Desilets, who is diabetic and suffers from an illness caused by
childhood polio, participated in the arraignment by videoconference from
the Worcester County Jail. He did not speak and his lawyer entered
innocent pleas to 16 counts of indecent assault and battery on a child
under 14, 10 counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14
and six counts of assault and battery.
The judge ordered him held on $100,000 bail and scheduled a court
appearance for May 13.
Desilets was indicted in April 2002 on charges of molesting 18 altar
boys between 1978 and 1984 at Our Lady of Assumption Parish in Bellingham.
Desilets had been living in Canada since 1984, when he moved there to
live at a retirement home for the clergy in Joliette, Quebec.
He was arrested there in October 2002 at the request of U.S.
authorities, and a Canadian judge's extradition order was upheld by the
Quebec Court of Appeal in February. The case moved on appeal to the
Supreme Court of Canada, but Desilets abandoned the appeal on April 7.
His attorney, Paul Mastrocola, declined to comment after the arraignment.
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