Fr. Richard J. Carelli
Diocesan chancellor 1985-1987. Made Monsignor in 1992. Died 12/9/2000. Accused in a 4/2003 lawsuit of sexually abusing a boy in 1964 while headmaster of Sacred Heart Academy in Worcester. Carelli’s accuser said Carelli would call him into the principal’s office and abuse him there. Further, he said that he failed only one subject that year but that Carelli kept him back, because he had refused Carelli’s advances. Retired in 1993 and died in 2000. Three suits were settled out of court by 2/2006.
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