NEW HAMPSHIRE
New Hampshire Union Leader
By MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
Defrocked monsignor Edward Arsenault shaved 60 days off his incarceration by participating in mental health counseling and is finishing out his prison sentence on house arrest somewhere in Rockingham County, according to state corrections officials.
Meanwhile, a top state prosecutor said no criminal charges will be brought in connection with a consulting contract that Arsenault had with Catholic Medical Center.
When Arsenault pleaded guilty to theft charges in 2014, he promised to work with police, who were looking into the $200-an-hour consulting contract he had signed with then-hospital President Alyson Pitman Giles.
Last week, Catholic Church officials announced that Arsenault — the face of the New Hampshire Catholic Church during the priest-sex abuse crisis of the early 2000s — had been formally stripped of his clerical duties and obligations.
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