Fr. John F. Doran
Died 6/1/1992. Named publicly as accused in the 3/4/2026 RI Attorney General’s Report. In 2002 a man reported to the Diocese that Doran sexually abused him multiple times as an 11- or 12-year-old altar boy at St. Patrick’s in Cranston. Doran’s accuser said that he suspected that Doran had also abused other altar boys. The man was told, when he asked if there had been other complaints about Doran, that this could not be determined because Doran’s confidential file would have been destroyed upon his death in 1992.
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