BROOKLINE (MA)
Wicked Local Brookline
By Teddy Applebaum/tapplebaum@wickedlocal.com
Wicked Local Brookline
Posted Apr 18, 2012
Brookline —
A deceased cleric who ended his career at a friary in Brookline nearly 60 years ago was one of six church leaders accused of sexual abuse last week.
Attorney Mitchell Garabedian said the Rev. Leonard Walsh, who worked at the friary on Rawson Road from 1950-54, abused his client, a 9-year-old Brookline boy, for four months in 1953.
Garabedian said the Franciscans agreed to pay an unspecified six-figure settlement to the man, who still lives in Massachusetts.
Before he came to Brookline, Walsh worked in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. He died in 1954.
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