PLYMOUTH (MA)
Boston Globe
By Matt Rocheleau
| Globe Correspondent
February 13, 2012
The longtime pastor of a Roman Catholic parish in Plymouth has been placed on leave after church leaders said they received an allegation that he sexually abused a child in the early 1980s when he was assigned to a different position.
The Archdiocese of Boston announced today that 62-year-old Rev. James E. Braley, pastor of the Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Parish since 2001, will remain on leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation by the archdiocese, which immediately informed law enforcement after receiving the allegation.
Nearly all of Braley’s assignments over the last 37 years have been in Massachusetts, and include chaplin to Archbishop Williams High School in Braintree from 1981 to 1986 and a six-year stint as associate pastor at St. Peter Parish in Cambridge that ended in 1981, according to Kellyanne Dignan, a spokeswoman for the archdiocese.
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