Father Donald Hickey – Diocese of Trenton

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1939 Ordained in the Diocese of Trenton
1940 – 1941 St. Joseph’s Church, Keyport, NJ
1942 – 1947 Ss. Philip and James Church, Phillipsburg, NJ
1942 – 1947 “Trenton Diocese Youth Coordinated, Warren and Hunterdon”
1948 – 1954 Immaculate Conception Church, Clinton, NJ
1949 – 1952 “Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Hunterdon Co.”
1951 – 1952 “Holy Name Society”
1951 – 1952 New Jersey State Farm for Girls, Clinton, NJ
1955 – 1983 Nativity Church, Fair Haven, NJ
1984 – 1993 “Retired”
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.)

Summary:
  • Father Hickey died in 1993.
  • Father Donald Hickey was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least two occasions in approximately 1975 when the male child was approximately nine years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Hickey was assigned to Nativity Church in Fair Haven, New Jersey, and the male child was a parishioner of the church and attended CCD classes through the church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Hickey included the following: Father Hickey fondled the boy’s penis and testicles, skin-on-skin. Father Hickey forced the boy to perform oral sex on Father Hickey. On at least one occasion, Father Hickey sodomized the boy.
  • The claim settled in December 2019 in the low six figures.