Bishop Richard Malone identified these priests, who all were removed from the ministry before June 2002 because of sex allegations, though their names had not been made public previously:
George Beaudet, 77, who served in nine parishes, including St. Mary’s in Westbrook before being removed from the ministry in 2000; Michael Plourde, 56, who served at parishes in Sanford, Biddeford and Westbrook before being removed by the ministry in 1994; Ronald Michaud, 60, who served in parishes in Portland, Biddeford and Cape Elizabeth before he was removed in 1989; and Fredrick Carrigan, 70, who served at parishes in Bath and Bangor before he was removed in 2002.
Malone also announced the results of two cases that had been decided by the Vatican.
Francis Kane, 79, who served in parishes in Biddeford, Cape Elizabeth and Portland before being removed from the ministry in 1997, and Peter Gorham, 79, who served in parishes in Portland and Bangor before his retirement in 1996, have been assigned what the bishop termed “a life of prayer and penance.”
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