Father Alphonse Dallinger – Diocese of Brooklyn

• The Official Catholic Directory, Kenedy & Sons

(The years listed above are the publication years of the Official Catholic Directory. According to the Directory, the assignments provided for a given year are effective as of January 1 of that year. This means that a priest listed in the Directory for a given year at a parish or school was likely at the same assignment for at least part of the previous year as well.)

• Father Dallinger died April 7, 1989.
• Father Dallinger was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least 100 occasions from approximately 1970 until approximately 1973 when the boy was approximately 10 to 13 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Dallinger was assigned to St. Mark’s Church in Brooklyn, New York.
• The sexual abuse by Father Dallinger included the following: Father Dallinger fondling the boy’s genitals over the boy’s clothing, Father Dallinger having the boy fondle Father Dallinger’s genitals over Father Dallinger’s clothing, Father Dallinger pulling down the boy’s pants and underwear and fondling the boy’s genitals skin-on-skin, Father Dallinger exposing his genitals to the boy, Father Dallinger having the boy fondle Father Dallinger’s genitals skin on skin, and Father Dallinger inserting his finger into the boy’s anus.
• The Diocese of Brooklyn agreed to settle the claim in the high five figures in 2021.