Cape Cod Times
A grand jury returned indictments against a former Cape pastor last Friday, with multiple counts of rape and assault and battery.
The Rev. Mark Hession was indicted out of Barnstable Superior Court on two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault and battery on a child less than 14 and one count of intimidation of a witness, a superior court official confirmed Monday.
Hession was previously pastor of Our Lady of Victory Parish in Centerville from 2000 to 2014 and also served at St. Joan of Arc Church in Orleans. In 2009, he delivered the homily at the funeral for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
A grand jury returned indictments against a former Fall River and New Bedford pastor on Friday, with multiple counts of rape and assault and battery.
The Rev. Mark Hession was indicted out of Barnstable Superior Court on two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault and battery on a child less than 14 and one count of intimidation of a witness, a superior court official confirmed Monday.
Hession served as parochial vicar at Holy Name Church in Fall River after he was ordained in 1984 and in 1987 was transferred to St. Mary Church in New Bedford. He also has served at St. Joan of Arc Church in Orleans and at Charlton Memorial Hospital as a chaplain.
By Ethan Genter
Cape Cod Times
BARNSTABLE A Barnstable police officer filed a lawsuit against the town, police Chief Matthew Sonnabend, Deputy Chief Mark Cabral and Lt. John Murphy, saying he was pushed out of his job as a detective because of his age and for reporting Murphy for allegedly drinking on the job.
Brian Guiney, a 35-year-veteran on the force, filed the civil complaint in Barnstable Superior on Tuesday. The complaint claims his supervisors engaged in both age discrimination and retaliation against him for raising complaints about Murphy, another longtime member of the department.
Murphy said he wasn’t comfortable commenting for this story because he hadn’t yet been formally served in the case. Sonnabend and Cabral did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday.