OHIO
The Columbus Dispatch
By Rita Price
The Columbus Dispatch
Monday February 11, 2013
A former central Ohio priest who spent a year in prison for molesting a 12-year-old boy has died.
Thomas L. McLaughlin, known as “Father Mac,” died last Wednesday at the age of 82.
McLaughlin was removed from his duties as pastor at Church of the Resurrection in New Albany months before he pleaded guilty in 1989 to molesting the child at the priest’s cottage at Indian Lake in Logan County. In exchange for the plea, charges that he had molested six other boys were not pursued.
McLaughlin also was pastor at St. Mary Church in Marion and served at other parishes in the Columbus diocese.
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