Archdiocese of Boston Archives

Victims’ lawyer: Ex-priest shouldn’t have been released from prison
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- July 29, 2017
A lawyer for victims sexually abused by Boston-area ex-priest Paul Shanley has said Shanley should not have been released from prison on Friday, arguing that he should “be in a hospital being treated, and not in the outside world where he can easily gain access to innocent children.” Shanley, a key figure in the sexual abuse scandals that erupted in Boston in 2002/2003, was laicized by the Vatican.
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Ex-priest at center of clergy sex abuse scandal to be released
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- July 26, 2017
Paul Shanley, one of the most infamous pedophile priests is about to be released from prison. He has served his sentence and has been found not to be a sexually dangerous person. He will be on probation for 10 years and can have no contact with anyone under the age of 16. However, his victims are not satisfied with these terms.
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Defrocked priest makes first court appearance in Maine
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- February 18, 2017
Ronald Paquin appeared before a judge via video conference from jail on Friday. The 74-year-old is now accused of assaulting two boys between 1985 and 1988 in Kennebunkport. He is back in jail after being ordered held on $50,000 bail.
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Ex-priest arrested for sexual misconduct, held without bail

A former Roman Catholic priest who was indicted in Maine on 29 counts of sexual misconduct dating to the 1980s has been arrested in Boston. Police and U.S. Marshals took 74-year-old Ronald Paquin into custody on Wednesday near a hospital in the city’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood.

Ex-priest imprisoned for decade indicted on new sex charges

Ronald Paquin, a former Roman Catholic priest who spent more than a decade in a Massachusetts prison for raping an altar boy, has been indicted in Maine on 29 counts of sexual misconduct dating to the 1980s. According to a York County District Attorney some counts involve a child under 14.