CONCORD (NH)
Concord Monitor
August 3, 2019
By Ray Duckler
David Ouellette was fooled once, as a 15-year-old victim growing up in Rochester.
He wasn’t fooled last Wednesday, though. He read the list, released by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester, the one documenting priests who had been accused of sexually abusing children for decades. He noticed names, parish assignments, punishments handed out.
Ouellette wanted more details, though. He says he won’t get fooled again.
“Personally,” Ouellette told me by phone, “I think of it as a smokescreen and a public-relations campaign.”
Where, for example, was the information about specific crimes committed, and how many victims stepped forward with accusations, and why were many of these suspected predators merely shifted from church to church in a cover-up that impacted the entire world? Most importantly, where are they now?
“It really doesn’t tell you anything,” Ouellette said, referring to the list.
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