MASSACHUSETTS
Boston Herald
Friday, October 2, 2015
By: Joe Dwinell
A former Haverhill priest locked up amid the Catholic sexual abuse crisis has been ordered released, the Essex DA’s office announced today.
Ronald H. Paquin pleaded guilty in 2002 to raping a Haverhill altar boy between 1989 and 1992 and he was sent to the Massachusetts Treatment Center at the Bridgewater Correctional Complex for up to 15 years. He completed his sentence this summer and now the DA says he is being set free after he was deemed not to be sexually dangerous.
Here is the release:
“The Essex District Attorney’s Office today withdrew its petition to hold Ronald H. Paquin as a sexually dangerous person. Neither of the experts who examined him found him “sexually dangerous,” therefore, the District Attorney’s Office must, by law, withdraw its petition. “Our contention is that Mr. Paquin poses a danger to the community,” District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said.
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