MASSACHUSETTS
The Patriot-Ledger
GateHouse News Service
Posted Sep 14, 2012 @ 10:00 AM
CANTON —
A man who said a local priest groped him while they were in the Blue Hills Reservation two years ago has refused to testify and the case has been dropped, Norfolk County prosecutors confirmed Friday.
Prosecutors decided not to proceed with charges of indecent assault and battery against the Rev. Emile R. Boutin Jr., 48, of Walpole.
Boutin was a priest at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Walpole and before that, at Immaculate Conception Church in Stoughton. Parishioners knew him as Father Mike.
In June 2010, a 21-year-old man told State Police that he had been touched inappropriately in a wooded area behind the Route 138 Park and Ride lot on the Canton-Milton line. The lot is bordered on three sides by the Blue Hills Reservation, parts of which are a wildlife conservation area.
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