PITTSFIELD (MA)
Berkshire Eagle
Monday June 11, 2012
Berkshire Eagle Staff
PITTSFIELD — A former New York priest convicted of raping two altar boys in the Berkshires in the 1980s is being sued by one of his victims.
The victim, whose name is not being revealed, is suing former Pastor Gary W. Mercure and the Albany Roman Catholic diocese, according to a report in the Albany Times Union.
Mercure, 68, who served in Glens Falls and Queensbury, N.Y., was convicted in a Pittsfield court in 2011 on three counts of forcible rape and one count of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. He was sentenced to 20 to 25 years in prison.
Mercure has been accused of similar crimes in New York and Vermont, but those cases could not be prosecuted because the statute of limitations had run out in those states.
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