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	Former Cape Priest Guilty of Raping Boys Cape Cod Times July 23, 2008 http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/NEWS/807230321 BOSTON — The Rev. Frank Genevieve, a Franciscan priest from New York, has pleaded guilty to charges of raping three teenage boys during overnight trips to Boston in the 1970s and 1980s. Genevieve served as an assistant priest at St. Margaret's Parish in Buzzards Bay in the late 1990s, according to WCVB-TV in Boston. He also had ties to Massachusetts as a former teacher at Christopher Columbus High School in Boston. Genevieve, 52, avoided prison time during sentencing at Suffolk Superior Court yesterday. A judge sentenced him to an eight- to 10-year suspended sentence, with five years of probation. Genevieve was ordered to have no contact with the victims or any minors, register as a sex offender and wear a GPS monitoring device. Prosecutors said Genevieve met the first victim in 1977 through St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Troy, N.Y., where he served as a Franciscan brother and was later ordained as a priest. During an overnight trip to Boston, prosecutors said Genevieve shared a bed with the boy at a rectory in the North End and sexually assaulted the boy as he tried to sleep. Genevieve was accused of attacking another teen in 1981 in the back room of a church during an overnight trip to Boston to celebrate the boy's confirmation. The third victim, prosecutors said, was attacked in Genevieve's car following a day trip to the New England Aquarium. The Franciscan Province of the Immaculate Conception, which oversees Franciscans, has said previously that Genevieve was removed from active ministry in June 2002.
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