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	Alton: Ex-Priest Gets Prison in Sex Abuse Case St. Louis Post-Dispatch [Alton MO] October 26, 2006 http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/laworder/story/FDB505726F21183A86257213 0010E289?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2C%22catholic%22+AND+%22priest%22 A former Catholic priest who briefly served in Alton was sentenced this week to five to 10 years in prison after pleading no contest in a sexual abuse case in Bay City, Mich., authorities said. John Steven Rabideau, 45, was accused of engaging in sexual conduct with children between the ages of 6 and 14 in the mid-1980s when he was a seminarian in Boston and visiting relatives in Michigan. The alleged offenses did not involve his duties as a priest, authorities have said. He was sentenced Monday in Bay County Court and will get credit for 261 days served behind bars. Rabideau served at St. Mary's Catholic Church and St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Alton in 1991 and 1992; St. Patrick's has since closed.
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