PROVIDENCE (RI)
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) November 17,2005
The Diocese of Providence has withdrawn a priest accused of molesting a Maryland teenager from his duties at a Rhode Island parish.
The diocese says it withdrew the accused priest, Aaron Joseph Cote, from Saint Pius the Fifth Parish in Providence yesterday after learning that a lawsuit had been filed in a Washington D-C court accusing Cote of child sexual abuse.
The lawsuit was filed by Brandon Rains, an 18-year-old who has accused Cote of sexually molesting him in 2001 and 2002 while Cote was serving at Mother Seton Parish in Germantown, Maryland.