Church files include allegations priests abused girls, drugs

Wednesday, December 4, 2002

BOSTON -- Priests sexually abused teenage girls, used cocaine and other drugs, and one had an affair with a female parishioner, according to allegations contained in personnel files maintained by the Boston Archdiocese.

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