Fr. Eugene D. Corbesero
Worked as a priest in five states. Left his order in 1979 or 1981. Laicized in 1983. Married. Pleaded guilty in 6/2007 to sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy in 8/2006 in New Jersey. Sentenced in 10/2007 to five years in prison. Prosecutors tried to obtain Corbesero’s personnel records from his time as a priest, alleging that he may have had similar troubles in the 1970s; the court denied the motion. Included on the Charlotte diocese’s list 12/29/2019, which notes a report in 1995 of the sexual abuse of a teenage boy sometime between 1973 and 1975 while assigned to Our Lady of Consolation in Charlotte. Corbesero died in 2016. Included in 5/2024 on the Archdiocese of Hartford’s list of credibly accused, where he resided in 1973, in Milford. Included in the 3/4/2026 RI Attorney General’s Report. In 2025 a man told RI State Police that “Fr. Eugene” sexually abused him when he was was an altar boy, age 9 or 10 in the late 1970s, at St. Lawrence Parish in North Providence. He said that the priest picked him up, put him on a table, tickled him, then unbuttoned his (the boy’s) pants then tried to fondle him.
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