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  Accused Priest Who Fled Prosecution Reported Dead in Exile

Catholic Culture
January 7, 2011

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=8837

A former priest who fled the US after being accused of sexual abuse has been reported dead in Martinique, where he had lived in hiding to escape prosecution.

Laurence Brett, who had been accused of molesting more than 30 boys in Connecticut and Maryland, reportedly died after a domestic accident. Once a priest of the Bridgeport, Connecticut, diocese, he had been laicized after multiple charges of sexual abuse.

 
 

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