Harrisville

• Beaulieu admitted in 2002 to abusing a 15 year-old Sacred Heart student in 1971.

Beaulieu said he made the admission to then Principal Leo Labbe, SC and that Provincial Superior Brother Ronald Dupuis was informed. Labbe and Dupuis said they didn't remember the admission of sexual abuse by Beaulieu, or knowledge of abuse by Beaulieu.

Labbe was accused in 2002 of having sexually abused an 11 year-old boy in 1960-1961 at a Massachusetts school. Labbe denied the abuse.

Barnstead

• Three men came forward in May 2002 with accusations that Beaulieu sexually abused them when they were boys in the 1970s, at Camp Fatima. One of the men said Beaulieu abused him in the summer of 1973 at the camp, and that the abuse continued into his freshman year at Bishop Guertin High School that fall.

• Two brothers surfaced in May 2002 with accusations that Beaulieu molested them in 1972 at Camp Fatima, when they were 8 and 6 years old. They said that on two occasions Beaulieu had them take naps in his private cabin, after which he climbed into bed with them and fondled them.

• In a July 2002 lawsuit, Beaulieu was accused of sexually abusing a 10 year-old boy in 1975 or 1976 at Camp Fatima.

Nashua

• Beaulieu was investigated in 2002, along with another Guertin teacher, after accusations surfaced that they had sexually assaulted students during the late 1970s. Beaulieu admitted in a deposition that he had sexually abused 15-20 students, and approached 50-75 others.

• A former administrative assistant said she used to see Beaulieu slide up to students, press his hips against them and rub their thighs.

• A man who taught with Guertin said publicly in 1997 that he was concerned in the 1970s when he happened upon Guertin and a student in the back of a school bus, and thought he was "interrupting something". The student later said Guertin had been fondling him. The boy's parents were said to have alerted school officials, who did nothing.

• Beaulieu was accused in an Oct. 2003 lawsuit of sexually abusing a Guertin student in 1974, the spring of the boy's freshman year.

• Several former students said Beulieu touched students during and after class, and would caress students' thighs in the classroom as he checked their work.

• One man said in 2003 that Beulieu sexually abused him beginning when he was 12 years-old at Camp Fatima, and ending when he was a sixteen year-old Guertin student. The man said he dropped out of school abruptly the day Guertin tried to force oral sex on him, and he never completed high school. The abuse is said to have occurred from 1972-1975.

Sacred Heart leaders were accused in a 2003 lawsuit of knowing of but doing nothing about allegations against Beaulier in 1971.

Beaulieau was said to have been removed from Bishop Guertin High due to allegations that he had sexually abused students there.

Sources:

• Teacher Backed Despite His Past, Portland Press Herald (Maine), November 13, 1997
• Teachers at Catholic High School Investigated, Associated Press State & Local Wire, March 26, 2002
• Bishop: Time for Peace, Love, Pardon. Alleged Nashua Victim to Sue Guertin, By Kathryn Marchocki, Union Leader (Manchester NH), March 29, 2002
• Four Men Allege Sex Abuse at Camp Fatima, Manchester Union Leader, May 29, 2002
• List of Accusers from Camp Fatima Continues to Grow. Friends Honor Memory of Priest, By Kathryn Marchocki, Union Leader, (Manchester NH), May 30, 2002
• In New Lawsuits, 11 Men Allege Sexual Abuse by Clergy, By Kathryn Marchocki, Manchester Union Leader, July 30, 2002
• Bishop Guertin's Labbe Accused, on Leave, By J.M. Hirsch, Union Leader (Manchester NH), November 22, 2002
• Settlement Reached in Abuse Claims, By Albert McKeon, Nashua (NH) Telegraph, November 27, 2002
• Religious Order Seeks Names of Other Alleged Victims, By J.M. Hirsch, Associated Press, carried in the Foster's Daily Democrat [Concord NH], February 6, 2003
• Religious Order That Owns Nashua School Sued, Associated Press State & Local Wire, February 12, 2003
• AG's Report Names 35 NH Priests, Union Leader [Manchester NH], March 4, 2003
• Church Abuse Victim Seeks Redemption, By Jonathan Van Fleet, Telegraph, Downloaded March 14, 2003
• Catholic School Says Students Responsible for Alleged Abuse, Associated Press, carried in Portsmouth Herald [Nashua NH], Downloaded May 17, 2003
• Attorney: Deposition Ties Bishop Christian to Abuse Cases, Memo Mentions Bishop's Involvement with Bishop Guertin High School,TheChamplainChannel.com [Manchester NH], July 8, 2003
• Bishop Christian to Be Deposed in Sex Abuse Suit, By Katharine McQuaid, Union Leader [Manchester NH], Downloaded July 9, 2003
• Bishop Guertin, Brothers Settle Sexual Abuse Lawsuit, Union Leader (Manchester NH), August 30, 2003
• Hudson Man Sues, Claiming Abuse at Bishop Guertin HS, By Kathryn Marchocki , Manchester Union Leader, October 2, 2003
• Ex-Students Seek $10 Million against Bishop Guertin, Union Leader (Manchester NH), February 5, 2004
• Bishop Guertin Settles Molestation Suits, Union Leader (Manchester NH), June 3, 2004
• NH AG Audit Records, March 26, 2009

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