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BOSTON (AP) – A Boston College trustee has resigned after criticism of his supervision of a former Jesuit priest convicted of child sexual abuse in the Midwest.

The Rev. Bradley Schaeffer resigned on Thursday. His term was to end in June. The Boston Globe reports Schaeffer said in a letter to the board he didn’t want to harm the college “or be a distraction.”

The Globe reported Sunday that Schaeffer allowed Donald McGuire to continue ministry despite complaints about McGuire’s behavior with boys in the early 1990s when Schaeffer led the Chicago Jesuit province. He has expressed “deep regret” for failing to stop McGuire, who’s in prison on state and federal convictions.