Father Charles Kane – Archdiocese of Boston

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1953 Ordained in the Archdiocese of Boston
1954 – 1957 St. Cecilia’s Church, Ashland, MA
1958 St. Joseph’s Church, Medford, MA
1959 St. Theresa’s Church, Revere, MA
1960 – 1967 St. John Chrysostom Church, West Roxbury, MA
1968 – 1972 St. Brigid’s Church, South Boston, MA
1973 – 1975 St. Mary’s Church, Billerica, MA
1973 – 1974 Massachusetts Correctional Institute – Concord (chaplain), Concord, MA
1976 St. Mary’s Church, Georgetown, MA
1977 – 1979 St. Joseph’s Church, Ipswich, MA
1980 – 1981 St. Philip Neri Church, Newton, MA
1982 – 1986 1982 – 1986
Source:
  • The Official Catholic Directory, Kenedy & Sons

(The years listed above are the publication years of the Official Catholic Directory. According to the Directory, the assignments provided for a given year are effective as of January 1 of that year. This means that a priest listed in the Directory for a given year at a parish or school was likely at the same assignment for at least part of the previous year as well.)

Summary:
  • Father Kane died in 1986.
  • Father Charles Kane was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least three occasions from approximately 1973 to 1974 when the male child was approximately eleven to twelve years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Kane was assigned to St. Mary’s Church in Billerica, Massachusetts, and the male child was a parishioner and an altar boy at the church. The sexual abuse by Father Kane took place inside St. Mary’s Church and in the nearby rectory affiliated with the church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Kane included the following: Father Kane fondled the boy’s genitals, skin-on-skin, and fondled the boy’s buttocks, skin-on-skin.
  • The claim settled in February 2020 in the high five figures.