Father Michael H. Hansen – Archdiocese of Newark

Assignment Record:

YearsAssignment
1967 Ordained in the Archdiocese of Newark
1968 – 1979 Sacred Heart Church, Bloomfield, NJ
1980 – 1999 Our Lady of Lourdes Church, West Orange, NJ
Source:
  • 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 Hansen was not indexed after the 2000 Official Catholic Directory.
Summary:
  • Father Hansen died in August 2012.
  • Father Michael H. Hansen was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on approximately ten occasions from approximately 1980 to 1981 when the child was approximately 14 to 15 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Hansen was serving at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in West Orange, New Jersey.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Hansen consisted of Father Hansen repeatedly fondling the boy’s penis and testicles, both over the boy’s clothing and inside the boy’s clothing, skin-on-skin.
  • The claimant passed away prior to the resolution of his claim.
  • The claim settled on behalf of the claimant’s estate in 2020 in the high five figures. .