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http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...4/11/priest_reinstated_by_boston_archdiocese/
A priest accused of sexually abusing a child at a school for the deaf in the 1970s has been reinstated after an investigation found the claims to be unsubstantiated, the Boston Archdiocese said Tuesday.
The Rev. Charles J. Murphy was placed on administrative leave in August 2004 after he was accused in a lawsuit of fondling a 12-year-old female student at the school and, two years later, walking into her dormitory room while she was undressing.
The archdiocese said that after investigating the claim, its review board found it to be unfounded.
Cardinal Sean O'Malley has lifted all restriction on Murphy and said he will return to his assignment as a priest at St. Francis Xavier Church in Weymouth.
Murphy was among a group of nuns, priests and administrators named as defendants in a lawsuit brought by former students of the Randolph school, which closed a decade ago.
Murphy, who was ordained in 1960 as a priest, served as a chaplain at the school. When he was placed on leave in 2004, he served as a part-time chaplain at the state prison at Norfolk and part-time chaplain to the archdiocesan deaf apostolate.
The archdiocese was not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, which was dismissed by a judge in December.
A priest accused of sexually abusing a child at a school for the deaf in the 1970s has been reinstated after an investigation found the claims to be unsubstantiated, the Boston Archdiocese said Tuesday.
The Rev. Charles J. Murphy was placed on administrative leave in August 2004 after he was accused in a lawsuit of fondling a 12-year-old female student at the school and, two years later, walking into her dormitory room while she was undressing.
The archdiocese said that after investigating the claim, its review board found it to be unfounded.
Cardinal Sean O'Malley has lifted all restriction on Murphy and said he will return to his assignment as a priest at St. Francis Xavier Church in Weymouth.
Murphy was among a group of nuns, priests and administrators named as defendants in a lawsuit brought by former students of the Randolph school, which closed a decade ago.
Murphy, who was ordained in 1960 as a priest, served as a chaplain at the school. When he was placed on leave in 2004, he served as a part-time chaplain at the state prison at Norfolk and part-time chaplain to the archdiocesan deaf apostolate.
The archdiocese was not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, which was dismissed by a judge in December.
