BOSTON (AP) – A former member of a Roman Catholic religious order accused of sexually abusing two boys at a Boston children’s home in the 1970s was ordered held on $15,000 cash bail after pleading innocent at his arraignment on Thursday.

Edward Anthony Holmes, 64, pleaded innocent to six counts of rape of a child; five counts of indecent assault and battery on a person under 14; five counts of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older; and one count of posing a child in a state of nudity.

He was ordered to surrender his passport and have no unsupervised contact with children under 16.

The alleged incidents took place in the mid- to late 1970s at the now-closed Nazareth Child Care Center in the city’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, where Holmes worked as a supervisor, and started when the alleged victims were about 9 or 10 years old.

The two alleged victims came forward in 2003.

Holmes was a member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. He has since been expelled from the order.

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