Former Cape Priest Convicted of Serial Child Rapes, Cape Cod Today, July 23, 2008

Former Cape Priest Convicted of Serial Child Rapes

Cape Cod Today

July 23, 2008

http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/2008/07/23/former-cape-priest-convicted-of-serial-c?blog=109

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Franciscan's sentence suspended, served at St. Margaret's Parish in Buzzard's Bay

"It ruined my life. I haven't been in a church since it happened." Mark LymanA New York priest has pleaded guilty to four counts of rape and another count of rape and assault while on field trips with children in the Bay State in the late 1970s. The Rev. Frank Genevieve, 51, who now lives in a Franciscan retreat in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., was charged with taking children from his Troy, N.Y., parish on field trips to Massachusetts during a period of several years.

Priest Pleads Guilty To Abuse Charges

The convicted priest, Frank Genevieve shown here at his sentencing yesterday, served as an assistant priest at a Cape Cod parish from 1998 to 2000.

Once there, according to the victims, he would abuse them."It ruined my life. I haven't been in a church since it happened, and I don't think I'll ever go to a church again," said victim Mark Lyman, of Troy, N.Y. The boys were between 13 and 16 years old at the time. One boy was raped three times and another boy once at an unnamed rectory in the North End or in Genevieve's car in downtown Boston, said a spokesman for the Suffolk County district attorney... Genevieve taught at the former Christopher Columbus High School in Boston's North End and was an assistant priest at St. Margaret's Parish in Buzzard's Bay in the late 1990s...