MASSACHUSETTS/MAINE
Boston Globe
By Evan Allen and Travis Anderson GLOBE STAFF FEBRUARY 09, 2017
Boston Police and U.S. Marshals arrested a former Catholic priest, who served more than 10 years in prison for raping an altar boy, on Morton Street in Jamaica Plain Wednesday, following his indictment Tuesday in Maine on 29 new counts of sexual misconduct.
Ronald H. Paquin, 74, was taken into custody without incident in the area of Lemuel Shattuck Hospital at about 3:40 p.m. Wednesday at the request of the Kennebunkport Police Department in Maine, which had issued an arrest warrant for him the same day, according to Boston Police.
Before Paquin was defrocked in 2004, he served in the Boston archdiocese at parishes in Haverhill and Methuen, and the new charges stem from his alleged abuse of two boys dating back to when he was a priest in Massachusetts.
He is accused of abusing the two boys in Kennebunkport between 1985 and 1989, according to York County District Attorney Kathryn Slattery. One of the boys was younger than 14, according to court documents; the age of the other boy was not immediately available.
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