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(NECN: Jennifer Eagan, Boston) – The Boston Archdiocese has settled sexual abuse cases involving two Massachusetts priests, including a former Boston Police chaplain.
Both priests, Rev. James H. Lane and Rev. Rickard O’Donovan, are now dead. Lane died in 2007, and O’Donovan died in 2000.
One of the priests served at St. Brendan’s parish in Boston.
A victim’s advocacy group says Father James Lane served at the parish in the early 1980s alongside a key figure in the church’s sex abuse cases.
“He had the intention, he had the ability, he had the opportunity and he did it,” said Robert Perron, who says he was nine years old when Father Rickard O’Donovan, a priest at what was then St. Coleman’s Church, offered him private confirmation classes. “I never received anything about confirmation. What I did receive was sexual abuse, and I was molested over 20 times.”
Perron reached a settlement with the Boston Archdiocese for his claims of sexual abuse. Two years of torment, he says, changed his life forever.
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