Fr. Joseph Gerard Raymond Lacasse
Assigned in the Philippines 1959-1973. Subsequently lived and/or worked in RI, CT, MA and CA. Named publicly as accused in the 3/4/2026 RI Attorney General’s Report. In 2010 the Diocese of Providence received a report that Lacasse sexually assaulted a girl sometime between 1968 and 1970, when the girl was between ages 8 and 11. The alleged victim said that she was staying at the Oblate Home overnight for a “teen program” and that Lacasse went into her room, locked the door, laid on top of her and “forcibly kissed her on the mouth.” The Oblates told the Diocese that since 1996 there were four other complaints about Lacasse, of the sexual assault of adult women. His faculties were revoked by the Diocese in 1997 after two complaints and he was sent in 1/1997 to St. John Vianney Center in PA for treatment. In late 1997 he went to live at the Oblate Foreign Mission House in Lowell MA. Lacasse was released from his vows, at his request, in 2012. He reportedly continued to live with the Oblates until his death 10/7/2018. (Per his brother’s obituary in 2009, Lacasse was living in San Fernando CA, home of Oblate-run parish, St. Ferdinand.)
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