BOSTON (MA)
TheBostonChannel.com
POSTED: 3:48 pm EDT June 5, 2005
UPDATED: 3:58 pm EDT June 5, 2005
BOSTON -- A priest accused of sexual abuse will return to active ministry at a Merrimac parish after the Boston Archdiocese found that the allegation could not be substantiated.
The Rev. Edward Sherry was put on administrative leave in 2003 after a lawsuit was filed accusing him of sexually abusing a child three decades earlier.
Archdiocese spokesman Terry Donilon said a review board could not verify the allegations following a "careful review of the information available."
The archdiocese's board recently recommended that Sherry be allowed to return to his old job as pastor at the Church of the Nativity in Merrimac.
Posted by kshaw at June 5, 2005 05:11 PM