NORTH ANDOVER (MA)
Eagle Tribune
March 30, 2019
By Mike LaBella
Sentencing planned for Friday for former Haverhill priest Ronald Paquin has been postponed.
According to officials with the York County Superior Court in Maine, sentencing originally scheduled for March 5 was continued to March 29 for a status conference, but Paquin’s defense lawyer requested another continuance, which was granted by Superior Court Justice Wayne Douglas.
Another status conference date is expected to be scheduled in about a week, court officials said.
Paquin continues to be held without bail, they said.
Last November, Paquin was found guilty of sexually abusing a boy from his Haverhill parish during trips to Maine in the 1980s.
Paquin, 76, was convicted of 11 of 24 counts of gross sexual misconduct. He was found not guilty of similar charges related to a second boy. Now grown men, both accusers testified in sometimes graphic detail during the three-day trial. The York County jury deliberated for nearly five fours over a two-day period.
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