NEW BEDFORD (MA)
The Sun Chronicle
NEW BEDFORD -- Decades after sexually abusing a young girl for seven years while he was a Catholic priest serving in Norton, Donald Bowen was taken from a courthouse in shackles Friday, sentenced to two years in jail.
The now 67-year-old bespectacled and balding man pleaded guilty in New Bedford Superior Court to two sexual molestation charges but not before first denying forcing the girl to perform a sex act and then minimizing the crime by saying he `` rarely'' had done so.