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“Ex-clergyman had finished prison time”
"**Boston ** Former preiest James Porter, whose wide-spread molestation of dozens of children fore-shadowed the clergy sex abuse scandal that swept the American Roman Catholic church, died Friday night.
Porter, 70, died at New England Medical Center in Boston, where he had been treated since being transferred from a Department of Correction medical facility on Jan. 26, department spokeswoman Diane Wiffin said. A cause of death was not immediately available, but Porter’s attorney had said the former priest had incurable cancer.
Porter was the first high-profile case involving allegations that a priest had molested children in his parish – and that the church had simply moved him from parish to parish to try to avoid scandal.
Porter had finished his prison sentence last year. But he was being held pending a civil commimtment." Source: the Associated Press
"Convictions
**** ***James Porter pleaded guilty in 1993 of molesting 28 children, but once told a television reporter that he molested as many as 100 children during his time as a priest in the 1960s and early 1970s in the Fall River Diocese." Source: the Associated Press
"**Boston ** Former preiest James Porter, whose wide-spread molestation of dozens of children fore-shadowed the clergy sex abuse scandal that swept the American Roman Catholic church, died Friday night.
Porter, 70, died at New England Medical Center in Boston, where he had been treated since being transferred from a Department of Correction medical facility on Jan. 26, department spokeswoman Diane Wiffin said. A cause of death was not immediately available, but Porter’s attorney had said the former priest had incurable cancer.
Porter was the first high-profile case involving allegations that a priest had molested children in his parish – and that the church had simply moved him from parish to parish to try to avoid scandal.
Porter had finished his prison sentence last year. But he was being held pending a civil commimtment." Source: the Associated Press
"Convictions
**** ***James Porter pleaded guilty in 1993 of molesting 28 children, but once told a television reporter that he molested as many as 100 children during his time as a priest in the 1960s and early 1970s in the Fall River Diocese." Source: the Associated Press