Father William McKeone – Diocese of Trenton

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1972 Ordained in the Diocese of Trenton (some sources indicate 1969)
1973 – 1975 St. Dominic’s Church, Brick Town, NJ
1976 St. Denis Church, Manasquan, NJ
1977 – 1978 “On Duty Outside the Diocese (listed at Christ House in Lafayette, NJ)
1979 – 1983 St. Mary of the Lakes Church, Medford, NJ
1984 – 1989 Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, Hainesport, NJ
1990, 1992 Morris Hall Home for the Aged/Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel, Lawrenceville, NJ
1991 – 1992 St. Lawrence Rehabilitation Center (chaplain), Lawrenceville, NJ
1993 – 1995 “Leave of Absence" (no location provided)
1996 – 2001 “On Duty Outside the Diocese” (no location provided)
2002 – 2009 “On Duty Outside the Diocese” (listed as Voluntas Dei Society, Canada)
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 McKeone is not indexed after the 2009 Official Catholic Directory.
  • Father William McKeone was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least thirty occasions from approximately 1975 to 1976 when the male child was approximately thirteen to fourteen years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father McKeone was assigned to St. Denis Church in Manasquan, New Jersey, and the male child was a parishioner and an altar boy at the church. The sexual abuse took place in the sacristy of St. Denis Church and, on one occasion, at a house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • The sexual abuse by Father McKeone included the following: Father McKeone repeatedly hugged the boy from behind such that the boy could feel Father McKeone’s erect penis rubbing against the boy’s buttocks over their clothing. On the one occasion in Philadelphia, Father McKeone sodomized the boy.
  • The claim settled in December 2019 in the low six figures.