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Wicked Local Roslindale
By Julie M. Cohen/Wicked Local West Roxbury and Roslindale
Wicked Local West Roxbury
Posted Sep 05, 2013
West Roxbury —
Six Roman Catholic clerics and a choir director who taught at a West Roxbury church were named publicly as alleged abusers for the first time by a prominent lawyer for clergy sex abuse victims, according to our news partners at WCVB.
William Emmett O’Brien, who died in 2004 on Cape Cod at the age of 72, was a West Roxbury resident and the children’s choir director at St. John Chrysostom Church in West Roxbury at the time of the incidents, attorney Mitchell Garabedian said.
Garabedian released the names of the five priests, one nun and O’Brien on Wednesday.
Each of the alleged victims is a client of Garabedian’s and all their cases were settled within the last year for amounts ranging from the high five figures to the low six figures, he said.
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