MASSACHUSETTS
The Sun Chronicle
BY GLORIA LaBOUNTY / SUN CHRONICLE STAFF
One of the most notorious cases of clergy sexual abuse came to a close earlier this year when former priest and convicted pedophile James Porter died of cancer in the midst of a court battle to prevent his release from prison.
But the end of his life did not end the anguish for his many victims who were Catholic school children when Porter assaulted them in the 1960s.
`` He's dead but he's still alive in memories,'' said Peter Calderone of Attleboro, who was a student at St. Mary's School in North Attleboro when Porter, a parish priest, molested him and dozens of his classmates.
`` Not one day in my life goes by that I don't think of that guy,'' said Calderone, one of many victims who began telling their stories publicly in the early 1990s after one of them tracked down Porter in Minnesota, where he was living with his wife and four children.