Father Joseph F. McGarvey – Diocese of Camden

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1950 Ordained in the Diocese of Camden
1951 St. Joseph’s Church, Camden, NJ
1952 St. Cecilia’s Church, Pennsauken, NJ
1953 – 1962 St. Mary’s Church, Gloucester, NJ
1963 – 1967 St. Ann’s Church, Elmer, NJ
1968 – 1978 St. Mary Magdalen Church, Millville, NJ
1979 – 1993 St. Maria Goretti Church, Runnemede, NJ
1994 Not indexed
1995 – 2002 “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 McGarvey is not indexed in the Official Catholic Directory after 2002.
  • Father McGarvey died in 2010.
  • Father Joseph F. McGarvey was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child at least twenty-five times from approximately 1977 to 1978 when the boy was approximately 5 to 6 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father McGarvey was assigned to St. Mary Magdalen Church in Millville, New Jersey, and the boy was a student at the affiliated St. Mary Magdalen School.
  • The sexual abuse by Father McGarvey occurred inside St. Mary Magdalen Church and in the rectory affiliated with the church. The sexual abuse included the following: Father McGarvey fondled the boy’s penis and testicles, skin-on-skin, and Father McGarvey inserted his finger into the boy’s anus.
  • The claim settled in 2020 in the high five figures.