Fr. James J. Cassidy
Assigned to parishes in Centredale, Hillsgrove, Providence, Narragansett, and Riverside. Retired in 1990. Died 2/3/1996. Accused in a lawsuit filed in 2026 of the sexual abuse of a boy, beginning when the boy was age 7, “on several occasions” between 1977 and 1981. Per the plaintiff, three other priests also sexually abused him. The abuse allegedly took place at St. Brendan’s in Riverside, including during confession in the church sacristy. Further, the priests threatened the boy with eternal damnation and said that no one would believe him if he told.
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