4 Accused in This Religious Order
- North Adams Transcript 11.29.63
- Hartford Courant 09.18.00
- Union Leader 11.27.02
- Documents from NH AGl Report 03.03.03
- Manchester Report by NH AG 03.03.03
- Union Leader 03.04.03
- Archdiocese of Santa Fe list 09.12.17
- Albuquerque Journal 01.29.18
- Albuquerque Journal 11.08.18
- Archdiocese of Santa Fe List 03.08.19
- Diocese of Manchester List 07.31.19
- Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament Newsletter May/June 2005
- Spokesman-Review 05.17.94
- Statement of Investigating Officer–Affidavit of Facts 05.18.94
- Spokesman-Review 05.19.94
- Spokesman-Review 05.20.94
- Release Conditions 05.20.94
- Information–State of Washington 05.20.94
- Warrant 05.20.94
- Spokesman-Review 05.23.94
- Spokesman-Review 05.30.94
- Order of Dismissal returning Bail to Order after Death 06.01.94
Fr. Wilfrid F. Bombardier
Ordained for the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers in Cleveland OH. Did much missionary work. Joined the Manchester diocese in 1970. Was working in Albuquerque NM when accused in 1993 of sexually abusing two boys at St. Charles parish 1966-1970. Also accused of abuse in Manchester in 1975. Admitted to a short-term relationship with a male in the Philippines. First listed as retired in the 1986 Directory. Died 9/16/2000. Included on the Santa Fe archdiocese's list 9/12/2017. Lawsuits in Albuquerque by two men in 1/2018 claim abuse as boys by Bombardier. Accused in an 11/2018 suit of the sexual abuse beginning in 1967 of a boy, age 13, while teaching him to swim and during an overnight in a cabin in the Sandia Mountains. Included on the Manchester diocese's list 7/31/2019.
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Fr. Richard Hennessy
Named publicly as accused by the Santa Fe archdiocese on its list 3/8/2019 (name spelled Hennessey; Catholic Directories show spelling as Hennessy). Assigned to Blessed Sacrament in Albuquerque 1961-1963. Previously assigned in the Diocese of Green Bay WI and the Diocese Cleveland OH. Last indexed in the 1969 Official Catholic Directory.
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Br. James Walter Lent
On sabbatical from his job as an elementary school teacher for the Diocese of Cleveland, studying at Gonzaga University, when arrested in Spokane in 5/94. Allegedly showed a 13-year-old boy a $20 bill in a mall bathroom, then had the boy perform oral sex on him. Released on bail posted by his Order. Died by suicide 5/29/94 before he could be arraigned. In the 1970s and early 1980s Lent taught at St. Charles Borromeo School in Albuquerque,NM.
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Fr. Louis H. Prefontaine
First identified publicly as accused by the Santa Fe archdiocese on its list 9/12/2017. Assigned in 1968 to St. Charles Borromeo in Albuquerque. Last appears in the 1977 Official Catholic Directory. Died in 5/1978 in Hurst TX where, per his obituary, he had been "engaged in counseling services."