MASSACHUSETTS
Boston Globe
By Lauren Dezenski | GLOBE CORRESPONDENT MAY 23, 2013
Reverend Joseph F. Byrne has been reinstated in the ministry after the Archdiocese of Boston cleared the 69-year-old priest of sexual abuse allegations, the archdiocese said today.
Byrne was placed on administrative leave in May 2012 after someone contacted the archdiocese with an allegation that he had sexually abused a child in the 1970s. The allegation was found to be unsubtantiated, the archdiocese said.
According to Byrne’s assignment history, he served at St. Matthew’s parish in Dorchester from 1969 to 1975, then moved to St. John the Baptist Church in Quincy.
As a result of the investigation’s findings, Byrne is no longer on administrative leave and has been assigned the status of senior priest, the archdiocese said.
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