Fr. Richard J. Barry

Order: OMI
Ordained: 1978
Status: Settled

Diocese: Archdiocese of Boston MA

Worked in MA, PA, DC, MI. Personnel file review in 2002 showed Barry allegedly raped and assaulted a youth at St. William’s in Tewksbury, MA, where he was assigned 1978-1981. Transferred to Dallastown, PA. Included in 3/2003 NH A.G. report. Per documents, the same man claimed Barry raped and sexually abused him beginning at age 16 or 17 in NH. Name omitted from 2011 Boston AD database because he was an Order priest. Included on Harrisburg PA diocese list released 8/1/2018. Per attorney Mitchell Garabedian, there was a settlement in 2021 in the mid-five figures of a claim of abuse of a boy, age 14, while on a camping trip in NH in 1981.


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