Death of an Altar Boy

The Unsolved Murder of Danny Croteau and the Culture of Abuse in the Catholic Church

By: E. J. Fleming

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

The tragic death of 13-year-old Danny Croteau in 1972 faded from headlines and memories for 20 years until the Boston abuse scandal - a string of assaults taking place within the Catholic Church - exploded in the early 2000s. Despite numerous indications, including 40 claims of sexual misconduct with minors, pointing to him as Croteau's killer, Reverend Richard R. Lavigne remains "innocent."

Drawing on more than ten thousand pages of police and court findings and interviews with Danny's friends and family, fellow abuse victims, and church officials, the author uncovers the truth - church complicity in the cover-up and masking of priests' involvement in a ring of abusive clergy - behind Croteau's death and those who had a hand in it.

©2018 E. J. Fleming (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

excellent account of church pedaphiles. the murder

narrator is excellent. book very detailed and appalling. the murder is made more tragic by the cover up of church and police.

Priest gets away with murder.......

Why do people not educate their children about how these slime bags operate? Why didn't the parents understand what conditioning is? I would never let someone from the outside of the family get that close to my kids.....COMMON SENSE goes a long way too helping ýour children achieve boundaries that will save their lives.....also...quit living in fantasy land......teach them to always ĺisten to their inner voice that yells DANGER!!!!! RUN!!!!!! and be conscious of your kids actions......murder 101 folks......

Catholic Abuse & Cover Up

Story was told very well about an injustice serve on Danny & his loved ones

The Catholic Church is morally bankrupt!!

This book is extremely disturbing. I was raised Catholic, gave up on organized religion when I became old enough to learn what this religion is really all about. I could never support a religion that has protected child molesters for decades!! It actually makes me angry how they protected these monsters. I had a child molester priest in the church I belonged to. He died as a registered sex offender. This is a problem worldwide. There are thousands of men and women whose lives were ruined by the Catholic Church. The men who ignored and dismissed these crimes should rot in hell with the child molesters!!

Struggled to finish!

I struggled with this one! It angered me, broke my heart. A very good read!

Intriguing overall story

I thought this book would be only about the boy’s case but it goes into details about the Catholic Church corruption. There are topics in here I had not known prior. Very interesting.

Recycling Information

The reader was fantastic. The book however recycled a lot of the same facts over and over, which was annoying at times.

The author is obviously very educated on this crime and the individuals involved, he truly seemed to do extensive research. For a very long, detailed book, repeating information multiple times seemed unnecessary.

Wow!

Lots of statistics in this story. Not just about one altar boy. I was raised Catholic but I am sure not practicing now. Worth a read for sure.

Christianity right

I was raised Catholic with my father and since my mother and father were divorced when I was with my mother I was either a Baptist or Presbyterian however during my youth years I did keep or try to keep the Catholic but this story is a good example of why I am now pagan Christians are confused I worship God be our Father not Jesus the all father the creator of heaven and Earth and as for a Bible that the Catholics are so set on and so are all the Christians God did not come down and write a book sorry for the rant however priest someone you're supposed to look up to sexually harassing children odin we pray

Weird Naration.

The story is informative and one that needs to be told. No doubt. The Catholic Church's crimes are the world's worst. With that said. The narrator's tone and cadence while story telling is almost inappropriate for the story. He sounds like he's giving commentary on a sports game. Ugh. It was so distracting. I barely made it through it.