MASSACHUSETTS
Eagle-Tribune
By Mike LaBella mlabella@eagletribune.com
HAVERHILL — One of his victims says it will be up to society to keep an eye on convicted pedophile and defrocked priest Ronald H. Paquin.
Mike Emerton, 49, a Haverhill native now living in Newburyport, told The Eagle-Tribune that he was one of Paquin’s victims and that he was hoping Paquin would be found sexually dangerous and continue to be held. At the time of the assaults, Emerton was an altar boy at St. John the Baptist in Haverhill.
“There is no cure for pedophilia,” Emerton said. “It was my hope that he would be found as a sexually dangerous person and be held indefinitely.”
The Essex District Attorney’s Office on Friday withdrew its petition to hold defrocked Haverhill priest 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.
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