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Ex-Priest Serving Sentence for Child Sex Abuse Dies at Maine Correctional Facility
He was serving a 20-year sentence for gross sexual misconduct after convictions for abusing a boy during trips to Maine in the 1980s.
- Ronald Paquin, 83, a defrocked Roman Catholic priest imprisoned for child sex abuse, died Friday afternoon at Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston.
- Paquin began serving a 16-year sentence in Maine in 2019 for abusing an altar boy after previously serving more than 10 years in Massachusetts for a similar crime.
- One of the priests exposed in the Boston Globe's investigation, Paquin was portrayed in the movie Spotlight and previously worked in parishes in Methuen and Haverhill.
- Medical personnel responded following the death, and The Attorney General and Medical Examiner were notified consistent with Maine Department and Corrections policy.
- The Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld convictions on 10 of 11 counts against Paquin in April 2020. Officials did not provide a cause of death.
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Ronald Paquin, priest convicted of sex crimes, dies in Maine prison
CHARLESTON, Maine — Ronald Paquin, the defrocked Catholic priest who served parishes in Methuen, Mass., and Haverhill, Mass., before being convicted of sexually abusing an altar boy, has died in prison in Maine.
·Manchester, United States
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Ex-priest serving sentence for child sex abuse dies at Maine correctional facility
Ronald Paquin, a defrocked priest exposed in the Boston Globe's "Spotlight," died Friday.
·Lewiston, United States
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