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BOSTON – A Jesuit priest who taught and coached at Boston College High School pleaded guilty Tuesday to molesting two teenage boys during wrestling drills.
Prosecutors said the Rev. James Talbot, 67, sexually assaulted the two students in the late 1970s, when he was teaching history and coaching soccer and hockey at the all-male parochial school.
Talbot, 67, is the first member of the Jesuit order prosecuted in the Boston Archdiocese since the clergy sex abuse scandal erupted here in 2002.
He pleaded guilty to one count each of rape and assault with intent to rape, and three counts of assault and battery. Under a plea deal with prosecutors, he faces five to seven years in prison when he is sentenced on Jan. 24.
Assistant District Attorney Audrey Mark told the judge that Talbot held what he called “aggression drills” with students. In the case of the two victims, Talbot encouraged them to take most of their clothes off, then grabbed their genitals while they were wrestling with him. Talbot also orally raped one of the boys and tried to orally rape the other, but he broke free and ran out of the gymnasium, Mark said.
Talbot worked at BC High from 1972 to 1980 before being transferred to Cheverus High School in Portland, Maine. He was removed from the school in 1998 following a lawsuit by a former student who accused Talbot of molesting him.
Talbot and his attorney would not comment after the plea hearing in Suffolk Superior Court.
Neither of the victims spoke during the hearing, but Mark told Judge Patrick Brady that they support the plea deal.
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