Fr. Frederick J. Cartier, Jr.
Personnel file released in 1/03. Accused in a recent letter of repeatedly molesting a teenage boy at St. Barbara’s rectory in Woburn and on overnight camping trips to NH in about 1970. Name on list of MA priests revealed as abusers in the 3/03 report on the Manchester Diocese issued by the NH AG’s office. Also named in the NH AG Audit Report 3/7/09. Voluntary laicization announced 2/11/11. Per Boston archdiocese’s list in 8/11, case concluded canonically. Died in 2020. Per his obituary, Cartier “changed careers” in 1979, working in the computer industry then as a dog groomer.
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