MASSACHUSETTS
Dorchester Reporter
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By
Tom Mulvoy and Bill Forry, Reporter Staff
Apr. 12, 2012
Fr. James Lane: Longtime pastor at St. Brendan parishA story in Wednesday’s Boston Globe reported that a settlement had been reached between the archdiocese of Boston and an individual who claimed he had been sexually abused by the late Rev. James H. Lane, the longtime pastor of St. Brendan’s Parish who was for many years a chaplain with the Boston Police Department. Lane died in 2007.
The newspaper pointed out that “as is standard,” none of a dozen settlements mentioned in the story “involved an admission of guilt.”
Terence Donilon, the spokesman for the archdiocese, confirmed the settlement in the Lane case and in another claim while telling the Globe that the church’s investigations “were inconclusive because both involved a single victim who professed to have been abused more than 40 years ago by a priest who died before he could answer the allegations.”
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