ALBANY (NY)
Canadian Press
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany told a lay minister to stop any public duties in one of its parishes after investigating a news report that he was convicted of sex charges in Canada this year.
A Canadian judge allowed John Evangelist Murphy, 75, of Dolgeville, N.Y., to serve 20 months of house arrest in New York state, where no one has authority to supervise him, the Dallas Morning News newspaper reported Monday.
Murphy was convicted in May of fondling four boys in the 1950s while a teacher at Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, Nfld., run by the Christian Brothers of Ireland.
Murphy left the order decades ago and lived in New York state for years before he was extradited to Canada for trial, the newspaper reported.
Murphy, reached at home Friday, declined comment on Bishop Howard Hubbard's decision.
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