SPRINGFIELD (MA)
Republican
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
By BILL ZAJAC
wzajac@repub.com
SPRINGFIELD - A Westfield man who was barred from serving as a Catholic priest after being accused of sexually abusing minors in three dioceses has been accused of sexually abusing four minors in Vermont in the 1970s in suits filed recently in Chittenden County Superior Court in Burlington.
Edward O. Paquette Jr., of Belleview Drive, who was previously accused by two men of abusing them as minors in Vermont in suits filed in 2004, refused comment yesterday on the recently filed suits.
In all the suits, the plaintiffs have listed the Diocese of Burlington as defendants.