Fr. Bernard J. Keenan
Died in 1966 at age 43. Accused in 2002 of digitally raping an 8-year-old altar boy in 1961 at St. John’s Parish in Wellesley. Allegation quotes “another child” as saying that “all the altar boys were molested” by Keenan. The 8/2011 Boston archdiocese list reported no formal determination of guilt either because Keenan died prior to a canonical investigation or it was not complete at his death.
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