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the Catholic Church.

Dupre, 70, stepped down Feb. 11, citing health reasons. His retirement came a day after The Republican newspaper of Springfield confronted Dupre with the allegations.
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Dupre, who served nine years as leader of the Springfield Diocese and its 262,000 Catholics, is the highest-ranking member of the Catholic hierarchy in Massachusetts to be publicly accused since the clergy sex abuse scandal began in Boston in January 2002. Springfield is about 90 miles west of Boston.
Since his retirement, Dupre has been at St. Luke Institute, a private Catholic psychiatric hospital in Maryland where the Boston Archdiocese sent many priests for treatment after abuse allegations were made against them. The institute treats priests with emotional, behavioral and psychological problems.
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Dupre has been criticized for his handling of sex abuse allegations against defrocked priest Richard Lavigne, a convicted pedophile whom authorities have said is also a suspect in the murder of an altar boy. But the claims made by MacLeish’s clients were the first public accusations against the bishop himself.
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