SOMERVILLE (MA)
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SOMERVILLE, Mass. —
An Episcopal priest, formerly of St. James Episcopal Church in Somerville, has been arrested and accused of abusing a child.
The Rev. Paul A. LaCharite, 65, of Boston, was arrested Friday on one count of assault to rape a child and three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child.
“We allege that this defendant, holding a trusted position within the Episcopal Church, indecently assaulted and touched the victim over several years, only ending his 10-year-long predatory abuse of the victim when the defendant left the church,” Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said.
The victim and his family were longtime parishioners at St. James Episcopal Church. In the 1990s, beginning when the victim was in elementary school, LaCharite began inappropriately touching the victim in his office, police said.
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