BOSTON (MA)
The Daily Free Press
By Matt Negrin
Published: Friday, December 2, 2005
A pair of 20-year old twins are suing their father, Boston University professor Rev. Lucien Richard, for not acknowledging them as his children, negligence and sexual abuse, physically and emotionally, according to the complaint.
The defendant works in the University Professors Program and also serves as a priest in the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Lowell.
The lawsuit was filed in the Middlesex Superior Court Nov.14, the daughters' attorney Alan Cantor said.
Cantor said the expected end date for the case is Jan. 8, 2007.
"This is known as a one-year case under our time standards order," he said. "Some cases are one-year cases. Some cases are three-year cases. This is generally a one-year case."
According to the complaint filed by the daughters, "in or about 1978, defendant Rev. Richard initiated a sexual affair with Paulette Peterson," which resulted in an aborted pregnancy in 1980 and another pregnancy in 1984 in which Peterson gave birth to twin girls.