Rev. Ronald Dorsey, c.s.s.

Summary of Case: Dorsey was accused in a 2004 lawsuit of having sexually abused a 12 year old boy in the 1950s in Massachusetts. He moved to Mexico in 1969, having apparently left the priesthood. He died in July 2008.

Ordained: 1956

   

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Boston archbishop was Richard James Cushing (1944-1970)

1956 Stigmatine Fathers Seminary

Waltham

• Dorsey was accused in a 2004 lawsuit of having sexually abused a boy, beginning when the boy was 12 years old in about 1955, at Camp Wyoma in Hinsdale, MA. (Troy Record
July 15, 2004)

MA seminarian  
1956 1969          
1969 1984 Escuela de Artesaniea Ajijic Jalisco, Mexico volunteer English teacher and principal Dorsey appears to have left the Stigmatines at some point. He moved in 1969 in the Chapala region of Jalisco, Mexico, where he lived until his death in 2008. (Guadalajara Reporter
August 2, 2008)
1969 2008 San Andreas Catholic Church Ajijic Jalisco, Mexico parishioner Dorsey published the parish bulletin and was involved in "other aspects of parish life".
1974 1999 or so Ninos de Chapala Ajijic and Chapala Jalisco, Mexico co-founder, director

Per its website (www.lakesideninos.org) in Nov. 2010, Ninos de Chapala is a charitable organization that "assists qualifying, needy children and young adults in the Lake Chapala area to achieve their maximum educational
potential... ."

Dorsey died July 19, 2008


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