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	Sex Abuse Suit Filed against Bishop, Former Priest WMTW September 24, 2007 http://www.wmtw.com/news/14189927/detail.html Augusta, Maine — A former altar boy from Windham who said he was sexually abused by a Roman Catholic priest in the mid-1980s has filed suit against the priest and Bishop Richard Malone. Steven Boyden, 37, who now lives in Georgia, filed the suit last week in Kennebec County Superior Court against Malone and Ronald Michaud, of Augusta. The suit alleged that Michaud — one of four priests identified by the diocese as having been accused of sexually abusing minors — molested Boyden while serving as the parish priest at St. Hyacinth's Church in Westbrook. The suit said the abuse began in early 1985, when Boyden was 16 years old. Boyden said that the diocese knew that others had accused Michaud of misconduct but continued to reassign him to new parishes. The suit seeks unspecified damages. A representative of the diocese could not be reached for comment.
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