Father James H. Coffey - Archdiocese of Boston

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1945 Ordained
1946-1949 Sacred Heart Church, Lynn. MA
1950-1952 St. Joseph’s Church, Amesbury, MA
1953-1957 St Mary's Church, Wrentham, MA
1958-1961 St. Theresa's Church, Billerica, MA
1962-1965 Sacred Heart Church, Medford, MA
1966-1970 St. Aidan’s Church, Brookline, MA
1971-1987 St. Mary’s Church, Wrentham, MA
1988-1990 Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Stoughton, MA
1991-1999 St. Aidan’s Church, Brookline, MA
2000-2003 Indexed as a Senior Priest and Reverend Father in the Archdiocese of Boston (no church assignment is given)
2004 Retired
2005 Died August 4, 2004
Source:
  • The Official Catholic Directory, Kenedy & Sons
Summary:
  • Father James H. Coffey was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least three occasions in approximately 1949 when the male child was approximately ten years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Coffey was assigned to Sacred Heart Church in Lynn, Massachusetts and the male child belonged to Sacred Heart Parish. The sexual abuse took place inside Father Coffey’s Jeep in or around the Lynn Woods Reservation in Lynn, MA.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Coffey included the following: Father Coffey fondled the boy’s penis and testicles skin on skin and Father Coffey performed oral sex on the boy.
  • The claim settled in June 2023 in the high five figures.