BOSTON (MA)
Milford Daily News
Friday, June 10, 2005
BOSTON -- The Vatican has defrocked six priests from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston who were accused of sexually abusing children, the archdiocese announced yesterday.
The defrocked men are John Connell, Denis Conte, Peter Frost, John Hanlon, Richard Matte and Paul David White.
The men may no longer act as priests, except to offer absolution to the dying. They are no longer part of the archdiocese, and are cut off from any financial support from the archdiocese, the archdiocese said in a statement.
Connell was accused in a civil lawsuit of molesting a 12-year-old boy while spending a week with him in Sarasota, Fla., hotel during the mid-1970s. In 1994, the archdiocese removed him as chaplain at St. John's Preparatory School in Danvers after he was accused of sexual misconduct.