Priest Convicted of Sex Abuse Is Defrocked
The Vatican has defrocked the priest who was the first in Massachusetts convicted of sexual abuse more than two decades ago, the Boston Archdiocese said.
In 1984, Eugene O’Sullivan was sentenced to probation after he admitted sodomizing a 13-year-old altar boy.
A condition of O’Sullivan’s sentence was that he not be allowed to work with children.
But he was assigned to four New Jersey parishes, then recalled to Boston in 1992 after church officials learned of another allegation against him dating to his time in Massachusetts.
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