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	Another Priest Sex Abuse Trial Begins WCAX May 5, 2008 http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=8270457 Another trial begins today against the Roman Catholic Diocese over sex abuse by clergy. 40-year-old Perry Babel, a former altar boy at Christ the King parish in Burlington, claims Reverend Edward Paquette fondled him at the church in the late 1970s. But what makes this trial different is the priest is not one of the defendants. It is the church being held responsible for allegedly putting the priest in a position to molest the victim. The church says it shouldn't be held liable for the priest's actions. Of the 32 lawsuits, 19 involve Paquette and claim he molested altar boys during the six-years he spent as the parish priest in Rutland, Montpelier and Burlington.
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