SHELBURNE FALLS A year before shocking charges of child molestation were levied against Richard Lavigne in 1991, I had two chances to meet with the then-admired priest of St. Joseph’s Parish.First, a parish member recommended I see him for.
One day after a prosecutor in western Massachusetts publicly accused a recently deceased former priest of murdering an altar boy a half-century ago, there
SHELBURNE FALLS A year before shocking charges of child molestation were levied against Richard Lavigne in 1991, I had two chances to meet with the then-admired priest of St. Joseph’s Parish.First, a parish member recommended I see him for.
Former Recorder reporter reflects on Lavigne case
The Rev. Richard Lavigne, a Roman Catholic priest, pleads guilty in Superior Court to two counts of indecently assaulting two adolescent boys, in this June 25, 1992, photo, in Newburyport. Investigators were preparing to seek an arrest warrant for the defrocked priest long considered a suspect in the 1972 killing of a Western Massachusetts altar boy shortly before his death on Friday. AP FILE PHOTO/SCOTT MAGUIRE
A photo of former Roman Catholic priest Richard Lavigne, who Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni announced Monday was responsible for the murder of 13-year-old Danny Croteau in 1972. Lavigne, a convicted sex offender, had died days prior on May 21 at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
SPRINGFIELD A day after Hampden County’s top prosecutor publicly concluded that former Catholic priest Richard Lavigne killed 13-year-old Danny Croteau in 1972, advocates for survivors of clergy sexual abuse called on the Diocese of Springfield to.