April 06, 2005

Ex-priest accosted after arraignment

BOSTON (MA)
Boston Herald

By David Weber
Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - Updated: 03:58 AM EST

As a defrocked priest was led out of a courtroom yesterday in handcuffs, a young man glared at him and said loud enough for him to hear, ``You'll get yours.''

Robert Burns, 56, was arraigned yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court on six charges of rape and seven charges of indecent assault and battery on a child.

It could not be confirmed whether the burly redhead was one of the five men that Burns is accused of raping and molesting when they were youngsters in the 1980s and early 1990s at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Jamaica Plain and St. Mary's Church in Charlestown.

Posted by kshaw at April 6, 2005 09:11 AM