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Ex-priest suspected in altar boy's 1972 killing dies hours before arrest: "He will face that higher power now"
CBS NEWS ^ | MAY 25, 2021 / 6:49 AM

Posted on 05/25/2021 6:07:11 AM PDT by deport

Investigators were preparing to seek an arrest warrant for a defrocked Roman Catholic priest long considered a suspect in the 1972 killing of a western Massachusetts altar boy shortly before his death last week, a prosecutor said Monday. Incriminating admissions Richard Lavigne made in a series of recent interviews while in a medical facility further implicated the longtime suspect in 13-year-old Danny Croteau's death, Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni told reporters.

Gulluni said his office was prepared to prosecute Lavigne for Croteau's killing, but he died Friday at the age of 80 before he could be arrested.

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TOPICS: History; Local News; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: anthonygulluni; dannycroteau; genderdysphoria; hampden; homosexualagenda; massachusetts; pedophile; richardlavigne; romancatholicism
The Man above is in control now.
1 posted on 05/25/2021 6:07:11 AM PDT by deport
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2 posted on 05/25/2021 6:07:49 AM PDT by deport ( )
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To: deport

Hopefully someone will see that he isn’t buried on hallowed ground.


3 posted on 05/25/2021 6:12:07 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: deport

He plead guilty in 92 to molesting young parishioners. Sentenced to 10 years probation and it took until 2003 to defrock the bastard. Pathetic


4 posted on 05/25/2021 6:16:08 AM PDT by albie
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To: deport

Looked like Billy Mummy......................


5 posted on 05/25/2021 6:20:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: deport

Sheesh. Good to see you posting, deport. Thanks for that one.


6 posted on 05/25/2021 6:27:50 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: deport

Satan is stoking the fires of HELL for one of his friends!


7 posted on 05/25/2021 6:47:17 AM PDT by high info voter
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To: albie

They always seem to get only 10 years probation.


8 posted on 05/25/2021 6:47:36 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: albie
He plead guilty in 92 to molesting young parishioners. Sentenced to 10 years probation

Unbelievable

9 posted on 05/25/2021 6:49:46 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: deport
"He will face that higher power now"
You people (organized religion) don't even know your own rules.

How do you know he hasn't already been to confession and forgiven for all of his sins?

Isn't that one of the phony benefits of belonging to the church?

10 posted on 05/25/2021 6:51:20 AM PDT by lewislynn ( How long before they replace Martin Luther King Blvd with George Floyd Blvd?)
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To: Slyfox
They always seem to get only 10 years probation.

Our society is at the opposite end of the spectrum from Jesus' admonition about little ones, millstones, and the depth of the sea.

11 posted on 05/25/2021 6:57:44 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: deport
The brother said Danny would come home sick to his stomach from alcohol after being with Lavigne.

Yet the parents allowed the visits to continue. The mind boggles.

12 posted on 05/25/2021 7:49:58 AM PDT by KevinB (''... and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: albie

I read elsewhere that he was removed from ministry by his bishop in 1991. The final decision from the Vatican only came in 2003. He was not working as a priest all that time. The Vatican moves slowly but his bishop did the right thing in the meantime.


13 posted on 05/25/2021 7:50:55 AM PDT by Flying Circus (God help us )
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“Yet the parents allowed the visits to continue. The mind boggles.”

...having such a strong belief in the Church that they can do no harm, is how my Catholic friends are.


14 posted on 05/25/2021 7:55:05 AM PDT by albie
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To: lewislynn

Jesus sets the rules, we don’t. He alone knows our hearts and He loves the repentant sinner, even the rapist and murderer. If he made a good and full confession then he is in the grace of God. I don’t know the state of Lavigne’s soul at death any better than you do but whether he is forgiven or condemned he has now faced God’s judgement.

None of us should wish Hell on anyone, no matter how evil their actions. We need to see to our own sinfulness and deal with that.


15 posted on 05/25/2021 7:59:41 AM PDT by Flying Circus (God help us )
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To: lewislynn
Ultimate salvation and giving an account of yourself before God are two separate things. The former doesn't erase the latter. Start with Romans 14:12, 2 Corinthians 5:10, 1 Peter 4:5, and Matthew 16:27.


16 posted on 05/25/2021 8:03:24 AM PDT by Cinnamontea
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To: Slyfox

There was no lifetime probation at the time of their crimes. There is now.


17 posted on 05/25/2021 9:48:30 AM PDT by Az Joe (FREE CHAUVIN!)
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To: albie

Not any more


18 posted on 05/25/2021 9:49:03 AM PDT by Az Joe (FREE CHAUVIN!)
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To: Az Joe

Too bad they have to even have probation on the table.


19 posted on 05/25/2021 10:18:22 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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