When a woman complained to the Archdiocese of Boston
in 1994 that the Rev. Lionel P. Ouellette had molested her as
a schoolgirl in Lynn, the church ruled he could keep his job. When the Rev. Paul G. McPartland was accused by
a woman, who said he had tried to sexually molest her in a car
at Castle Island when she was 16, the church took no action.
Records made public yesterday detailing alleged
sexual misconduct by six priests suggest that women who complained
that they had been assaulted as girls often received dismissive
treatment by a church review board. ''Victims, male and female, were discounted, but
it was even more pronounced with respect to women,'' said David
Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of Those
Abused by Priests.