Fr. Richard T. Donahue
Parish priest in the archdiocese for 23 years. Missionary in Honduras from about 1991-2015. Named publicly as accused by Attorney Mitchell Garabedian 5/17/2019. Donahue was retired at the time of the release of his name. The Archdiocese deemed the allegations unsubstantiated. Ministry restricted since 2015, when a first accuser came forward; applied for compensation from the Archdiocese, awaiting decision in 2/2020. In 2017 another man filed suit, claiming he was molested by Donahue at age 12 in 1976, when Donahue was assigned to Sacred Heart parish in East Boston. Claim settled in 2/2019 for $73K. Donahue denied all allegations. His status on the Archdiocese’s list in 8/2022 is the same, although Donahue died 9/9/2020.
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