MASSACHUSETTS
Courthouse News Service
By CHRISTINE STUART
(CN) – An Episcopal priest sexually assaulted a child parishioner for 10 years, the child, now a man, claims in court.
John Doe claims in Suffolk County Court that the late Rev. Paul A.L. LaCharite sexually abused him from 1995 until 2005.
LaCharite died on Sept. 26, 2012, apparently of suicide, two weeks after he was accused of indecent assault, according to reports in Boston newspapers and an Anglican Church website.
LaCharite was rector and priest at the defendant St. James Episcopal Church in Somerville. From 2005 until his death in 2012 he was pastor at Old North Church in Boston, which is not a party to the lawsuit.
Doe also sued the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and LaCharite’s estate.
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