CONNECTICUT
News Times
By Jim Shay
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
DANBURY – A Roman Catholic priest in Maine – who served at Danbury’s St. Anthony Maronite Church for eight years – has been removed following allegations of sexual abuse against a minor.
The allegations say the sex abuse of the minor happened 15 years ago while the Rev. Larry Jensen served at St. Anthony Maronite Church in Danbury.
The Morning Sentinel of Maine reported that Jensen, 62, was removed amid a “substantiated” allegation of sexual abuse of a minor.
“He has been permanently relieved of priestly ministry and he can not present himself as a priest anymore,” Michael Thomas, vicar general of the Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn, New York, told the The Morning Sentinel on Monday.
Thomas said the alleged abuse victim, a male, “was close to 18, but not 18” when the alleged abuse occurred at the time Jensen was a priest at St. Anthony Maronite.
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