Br. Vincent Cavanaugh
Worked in the 1950s at LaSalle Academy in Providence. Died in 1966. Named publicly as accused in the 3/4/2026 RI Attorney General’s Report. In 2004 a man reported to the Diocese that Cavanaugh sexually abuse him at age 13, as well as his 11-year-old brother, on multiple occasions in the summer of 1956. Cavanaugh allegedly reached into the boys’ shorts and touched their genitals while applying sunscreen, and had them do the same to him. The abuse occurred when Cavanaugh took the boys swimming.
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