PROVIDENCE (RI)
Providence Journal
August 4, 2019
By Brian Amaral
Kevin R. Fisette, who appears on the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence’s list of clergy who’d been “credibly accused” of sexually abusing a minor, visited schools and worked in the presence of children after he got a new job at Goodwill, according to social media postings and school officials.
A man on the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence’s list of clergy who’d been “credibly accused” of sexually abusing a minor visited schools and worked in the presence of children after he got a new job at Goodwill, according to social media postings and school officials.
Kevin R. Fisette, 64, was removed from ministry and resigned from his post as pastor of St. Leo the Great Church in Pawtucket in 2009 after a sexual-abuse allegation from the early 1980s — which the Diocese of Providence deemed credible but that his supporters say was unfounded — surfaced. By October 2010, he had a new job at Goodwill Industries of Rhode Island. From 2014 to 2018, social media posts showed him visiting Goodwill’s donation bins at Rhode Island schools.
Photos show Fisette posing with children at Burrillville Middle School, Leo Savoie Elementary School in Woonsocket, and St. Mary Academy-Bay View, an all-girls independent Catholic school in Riverside, while expressing appreciation to them for collecting donations for Goodwill.
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