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}}}>Begin Feb 8, 2002 Church Turns Over Names of Accused Priests; More Former Altar Boys Claim They Were Abused By Jay Lindsay Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) - The Roman Catholic Church's Boston Archdiocese, complying with its promise to report past abuse accusations, revealed the names of six more priests who have been suspended amid charges they molested children. The six were among at least 22 more accused priests whose names were forwarded to prosecutors Thursday. In all, the archdiocese has now turned over the names of at least 60 priests accused of sexually abusing children over the past 40 years. Also Thursday, the archdiocese was hit by two new lawsuits alleging the church knew of the abuse but failed to stop it. A lawsuit filed in Middlesex Superior Court accused Cardinal Bernard Law personally of failing to protect a 13-year-old boy from abuse by now-defrocked priest John Geoghan in 1989. In the suit, Christopher Fulchino, now 2 5 and living in Maine, alleges Law knew or should have known about the abuse and relied on "a veil of silence." Geoghan, who was recently convicted of sexual abuse, faces 80 civil lawsuits and two more criminal cases. In all, 130 people claim he abused them. Last month, Law apologized for moving Geoghan to a church in Weston even t hough he knew of allegations of abuse against the priest. Meanwhile, a lawsuit filed in Suffolk Superior Court on behalf of four former altar boys accuses the archdiocese of failing to protect them and accuses the Rev. Paul Desilets of molesting them when he was assigned to Assu mption Parish in Bellingham the mid-1980s. Earlier this week, two other former altar boys filed a separate lawsuit against Desilets, now 78, with similar allegations. Bellingham police, who have been investigating the allegations against Desilets for the past two weeks, said they expect the list of people accusing him of abuse to grow to 15 to 20. Police have not yet interviewed Desile ts, who lives in a nursing home in Quebec. On Wednesday, Desilets told The Associated Press the charges against him in the first lawsuit were exaggerated. The archdiocese is facing other lawsuits by people alleging abuse by Geoghan and by the victims of former church worker Christopher Reardon, who was sentenced to 40 to 50 years after pleading guilty last year to molesting 24 boys. Last month, the archdiocese announced a new policy of reporting even past allegations of abuse by priests after documents in the Geoghan case showed at least some officials knew of the accusations. 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