Fr. Bernard L. Doheny
Monsignor. Diocesan Boy Scouts Chaplain; Director of Youth for the diocese for 15 years; ward representative of Springfield’s Juvenile Delinquency Commission; appointed in 1950 to the White House Conference on Children and Youth. Accused in a 3/05 civil suit of sexually abusing a boy for four years, beginning when the boy was age 10. The same suit alleges that the boy was abused by his uncle (Msgr. Page), other priests and two separate bishops. Plaintiff was in a Texas prison for an unrelated murder when the suit was filed. Worcester diocese said the allegations not credible. Doheny died in 1965.
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