Priest sentenced for sexual assault

BOSTON – A Jesuit priest who taught and coached at Boston College High School was sentenced Tuesday for molesting two teenage boys during wrestling drills.

The Rev. James Talbot was sentenced to five to seven years, plus three years of probation, during a hearing in Suffolk Superior Court. The 67-year-old priest pleaded guilty earlier this month just before he was to go on trial.

Prosecutors say he sexually assaulted two students in the late 1970s, when he was teaching history and coaching soccer and hockey at the all-male parochial school.

Talbot worked there from 1972 to 1980 before being transferred to Cheverus High School in Portland, Maine. He was removed from that school in 1998 after a lawsuit by a former student who accused Talbot of molesting him.