June 11, 2005

Clergy abuse victim finds vindication

MANCHESTER (NH)
The Union Leader

By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
Union Leader Staff

MANCHESTER — John A. Moody was 15 when he says a Manchester priest molested him, but kept silent for 20 years because he never thought anyone would believe him over an esteemed cleric and community leader.

Long-awaited vindication came yesterday when Moody learned Pope John Paul II defrocked the Roman Catholic priest, Ronald E. Corriveau, 60, on March 21.

“This is just completely huge that it was (the Pope). It was the Vatican. It’s the Catholic world . . . and this guy who is the head of it and they deemed it enough to defrock this guy,” said Moody, now 38.

Moody, a tractor-trailer driver who lives in greater Manchester, said he got goosebumps when his lawyer called him on the road yesterday to tell him about the Vatican’s decision.

Posted by kshaw at June 11, 2005 06:57 AM