The Rev. Donald J. McGuire was a regular guest at the Trivium School in Lancaster.
(Mark Wilson for the Boston Globe)
School did not notify parents of abuse charges
Prominent priest convicted in 2009
The Rev. Donald J. McGuire was a regular guest at the Trivium School in Lancaster.
(Mark Wilson for the Boston Globe)
At least five former students at a small Catholic day school in Lancaster said they were abused by the same priest during the 1990s and early 2000s, but the couple who founded and ran the Trivium School stoutly defended the Rev. Donald J. McGuire until 2009, when he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for molesting a former eighth-grader. Now, founders John S. and Louise Schmitt admit the school never took steps to find out whether McGuire molested other students.
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