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	Cardinal Arrives Tomorrow at Parish Rocked by Abuse Scandal By Jill Harmacinski Salem News May 26, 2006 http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/05/snstory.pl?-sec-News+1k589gO+fn-stagnes-20060526- [partial text from Abuse Tracker] MIDDLETON — The Rev. Michael Hobson remembers the stranger-danger classes of his youth, lessons in which a child molester was described as a dirty man, unshaven, lurking in the bushes at night, planning his next attack on an unsuspecting boy or girl. No one ever suggested the molester might be the parish priest — or, as in the case of St. Agnes Church, the parish youth director. But now Hobson, 43, finds himself pastor of a church that has endured shock, bitter heartache and scandal since Christopher Reardon, St. Agnes' youth director and a Middleton Boy Scout leader, was arrested six years ago for raping and molesting more than 20 local boys, many of them right in the church rectory.
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