Assignment Record– Rev. Eugene Bailot

Summary of Case: Ordained a priest for Boston in 1939, Bailot assisted for years in a number of parishes across the archdiocese. He was assigned 1943-44 to Harvard Chaplain School; he is noted in the Directories to have been in the U.S. Army during those same years. In 1964 Bailot was made pastor of a Pembroke parish, was retired 1967-68, then pastored several parishes and assisted at another before he retired permanently in 1975. He died in 1983. In January 2003 a woman stated publicly that Bailot sexually abused her and her brother some 50 years previously, after establishing himself as a "darling" of their family. Also in January 2003, Bailot was accused of sexual abuse in a lawsuit.

Ordained: 1937
Died: July 23, 1983

Sources: Official Catholic Directory (New York: Kenedy & Sons, 1940-1983).

• Victims Talk about Sexual Abuse, By Francis X. Fay Jr., Connecticut, Downloaded January 18, 2003
• 16 Priests Named for First Time in Sexual Abuse Lawsuits, By Michael Rezendes and Matt Carroll, Boston Globe, January 30, 2003
• Boston Archdiocese Posts Sex-Abuse Database Online, By Joan Frawley Desmond, National Catholic Register, August 25, 2011
• North Shore Priests on List, Salem News, August 26, 2011
• Greater Taunton Clerics Included in List of Clergy Accused of Sexual Abuse, By Gerry Tuoti, Taunton Daily Gazette, August 26, 2011
• Seven Clergy with Peabody Ties on List of Accused Priests, By John Castelluccio, The Patch, August 29, 2011
• 14 JP Priests on Sex Abuser List, By John Ruch, Jamaica Plain Gazette, September 9, 2011

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This assignment record was last updated on August 25, 2015.