‘We live with a big burden’: US sexual abuse survivor hopes priest’s death brings closure
Ronald Paquin arrives for sentencing in court in Maine in May 2019. Photograph: Robert F Bukaty/APView image in fullscreenRonald Paquin arrives for sentencing in court in Maine in May 2019. He was stripped of his clerical status and imprisoned in Massachusetts for that abuse, which was first publicly exposed in a Pulitzer-winning series of investigative articles by the Boston Globe newspaper’s Spotlight team.Paquin was freed in 2015.
- ▪Ronald Paquin arrives for sentencing in court in Maine in May 2019.
- ▪Photograph: Robert F Bukaty/APView image in fullscreenRonald Paquin arrives for sentencing in court in Maine in May 2019.
- ▪He was stripped of his clerical status and imprisoned in Massachusetts for that abuse, which was first publicly exposed in a Pulitzer-winning series of investigative articles by the Boston Globe newspaper’s Spotlight team.Paquin was freed i
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Ronald Paquin arrives for sentencing in court in Maine in May 2019. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Photograph: Robert F Bukaty/APView image in fullscreenRonald Paquin arrives for sentencing in court in Maine in May 2019. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Photograph: Robert F Bukaty/APCatholicism‘We live with a big burden’: US sexual abuse survivor hopes priest’s death brings closureKeith Townsend says he hopes death of Ronald Paquin in prison helps victims and families to ‘keep pressing forward’Ramon Antonio VargasThu 17 Sep 2026 06.00 EDTLast modified on Thu 17 Sep 2026 06.02 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleA survivor of childhood sexual abuse by a defrocked Boston Catholic priest who was portrayed admitting to molesting minors in the Oscar-winning Hollywood film…
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