A Diocese may be vicariously liable for sexual abuse committed by an assistant priest, even though the priest is not an employee, where the relationship between the Diocese and the priest is akin to employment and the abuse is sufficiently connected with the priest's pastoral role and functions. Home visits to parishioners, being an integral part of pastoral duties, provide a sufficient connection between the role and the abuse for vicarious liability purposes. A trial judge's finding that compensable psychiatric injury did not commence until memories of abuse were reawakened decades later is not glaringly improbable where the plaintiff failed to disclose the abuse to treating professionals and contemporaneous clinical records attributed symptoms to other causes.
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