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From Allegations Revealed in Lawsuit Settled vs. Manchester Diocese, By Pat Grossmith,Manchester Union Leader,October 12, 2002. Rev. Leo Shea,was convicted in 1994 of felonious sexual assault on a 14-year-old altar boy at the Immaculate Conception Church in Troy. ;Shea was sentenced to 3 to 6 years in state prison and was paroled on Feb. 27, 1997.The Rev. Leo Shea: Six of the 16 men accuse Shea of molesting them as children when he was assigned to St. Anthony's Church in Manchester in the 1970s, at Sacred Heart Church in Manchester from 1966-70, at a parish in Nashua in the early 1970s and at Immaculate Conception Church in Manchester in 1973-74. He has been out of the ministry since 1993.The lawsuit alleged that the Roman Catholic Bishop of Manchester and the Diocese of Manchester knew Shea was sexually molesting children but allowed him to continue to serve as a priest and transferred him from parish to parish.In one case, Shea is accused of sexually molesting John Doe #1 in St. Anthony Church while the altar boy was preparing for another priest's funeral, in the presence of the open casket. Shea, according to court documents, instructed the child that the incidents of abuse needed to be "kept quiet."In one case, Shea allegedly befriended a child parishioner in Nashua when his "mother was beginning to wither in the grip of lung cancer at the time," Douglas wrote.According to a parish directory, Shea lives in Danbury, The Associated Press reported. He has not responded to efforts to reach him at home or through the diocese.Tags:Child Sex Abuse by Father Leo Shea, Rev Leo Shea,Catholic Church Sex Abuse,Conception Church in Troy, Leo Shea,Child Sex Abuse Catholic Church Troy NH,Altar boys sex abuse,All Saints Church Lancaster NH,Saint Anes Church Jefferson NH,Troy NH,Pelham NH,Chaplain for the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts,Home in Danbury NH,Cottage in Cape Cod MA,Cottage in Sandwich MA,TRANSCRIPT
