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Diocese: Diocese of Springfield MA
Retired in 2006. Suspended in 1/20 due to an allegation of abuse of a boy, age 16, in 1971. His accuser said he met Byington through a weekend retreat for Christian teenagers and that the abuse occurred after the priest offered him a ride home. Byington allegedly took the boy to a convent and upstairs to his room, despite nuns trying to prevent the priest from taking the boy there by blocking the stairs. Byington denied the allegation. Included on the diocese's list of accused 1/7/21, under "cases in process." Reportedly in 11/21 a second alleged victim had recently come forward. On 12/13/21 the diocese announced that the allegations against Byington were deemed credible and that he would not be returned to ministry.
Diocese: Diocese of Worcester MA
Diocese: Diocese of Fall River MA
Died: 03/4/2018
Diocese: Archdiocese of Boston MA
Accused in a lawsuit settled in 6/21 in the high five figures of sexually abusing a boy, ages 8-13, over 100 times at St. William's in Tewskbury during 1973-1978. Prior to Boston, Emerson was a deacon in St. Louis, MO and Omaha, NE, where he worked at Boys Town U.S.A. In 2012 he admitted to smuggling drugs into the Middlesex County House of Correction in Billerica, where he was chaplain; he was sentenced to community service and ordered to stay away from jails. Emerson died in 2018.
Diocese: Diocese of Fall River MA
Diocese: Diocese of Springfield MA
Diocese: Archdiocese of Boston MA
Diocese: Archdiocese of Boston MA
In 2002 a woman reported to the diocese that, beginning on the day of her First Communion in the late 1960s when she was about age 8, and repeatedly until she was 12, Gill sexually abused her. Gill was the "family priest," assigned to St. Charles in Pittsfield. She alleged that the abuse involved groping and fondling and would take place at family gatherings such as picnics, trips to the beach and sleepovers. She received a settlement from the diocese in 2008. The diocese told her that another woman had come forward in 1992 claiming that she was abused by Gill at age 15. Gill died in 1995. Reportedly in 8/21 a parishioner confronted Gill in 1977 after a 14-year-old girl told him that Gill was molesting her in his rectory bedroom at St. Charles. The parishioner informed the senior priest at the parish. Gill was soon transferred to a parish in Brimfield. In 8/21 the diocese stated that it had received three complaints of child sexual abuse by Gill.
Diocese: Archdiocese of Boston MA
Diocese: Archdiocese of Boston MA
Monsignor. Accused in a lawsuit settled in 6/21 in the high five figures of sexually abusing a boy, age 13-14, multiple times 1976-1977, while assigned to St. Eulalia's in Winchester. Haddad died in 2007.
Name appeared on a list of accused released by the Bristol County MA District Attorney in 9/02; one alleged victim with claims beyond the statute of limitations. Included on the Richmond diocese's list 2/13/19. Worked at parishes in Richmond and Hurt. Removed in 2004. Died in 2007. Included in 1/21 on the Fall River diocese's list of credibly accused. Worked at parishes in Westport, Provincetown and New Bedford. The list notes that his faculties had been removed. Also in residence in the 1980s at St. Thomas Apostle in Washington DC.
Diocese: Archdiocese of Boston MA
Ordained for the Benedictines. Became a Worcester diocesan priest. First known abuse was of minors in MA. Sent to the Paracletes in NM for treatment. Many victims in many states. After abusing in El Paso, transferred by Bishop Metzger to the San Angelo, TX diocese. Convicted in 1993 of abusing 8 boys during 1972-74 in Alamogordo NM; sentenced to 275 years. Died in prison 11/25/08, buried in NM. Accused in new federal suit of abusing, along with D. Barfield and W. Diamond, a boy in Alamogordo. He and Diamond also worked together earlier. A new suit was filed in Denver in 12/13. Included on the Santa Fe archdiocese's list of accused 9/12/17. On the Las Cruces diocese's list 11/8/18. On the Amarillo diocese's list 1/31/19. On El Paso's list 1/31/19. On San Angelo's list 2/13/19. A new suit was filed 3/31/20 against the Servants of the Paraclete, the Las Cruces, El Paso and Worcester dioceses, and two Alamogordo parishes for abuse of a boy in the 1970s. Trial set for 2/23.
Died in 2011. Named publicly by the diocese on its list of credibly accused in 3/22. Accused of sexually abusing a minor in 1974.
Diocese: Diocese of Worcester MA
Accused in a lawsuit that was settled in 7/21 in the high five figures of sexually abusing a boy, age 11-12, in 1989-90, while assigned to St. Catherine of Siena in Norwood. Per the archdiocese, "McCarthy has been AWOl since 2005."
Reportedly in 2003, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of a woman who alleged up to 200 incidences of sexual abuse by McInnis when she was 6-11 years old. He was working at St. Monica's parish in Boston at the time of the alleged abuse. He died in 1986. The suit settled as part of massive Boston $85M settlement in Fall, 2003. Omitted from 2011 Boston AD database. At least one other suit settled with a woman alleging abuse by McInnis at age 15 at St. James in Arlington, MA 1968-69. On the Jesuits Northeast Province list of credibly accused 1/15/19 (spelled McInnes). It notes allegations in the 2000s of abuse of multiple minors 1960s-80s.
