Priest Assignment Records and Case Details Released

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Detailed information on the assignment records and claim history of these abusers, together with sources, can be accessed by reading below as well as in the pdfs lnked above.

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Father Thomas J. Crum – Diocese of Youngstown

Assignment Record:

YearsAssignment
1975 Ordained in the Diocese of Youngstown
1975 St. Mary’s Church, Massillon, OH (indexed as “Rev. Mr. Thomas Crum”)
1976 – 1977 Cardinal Mooney High School, Youngstown, OH
1978 St. John’s Church, Campbell, OH
1979 St. John the Baptist Church, Campbell, OH
1980 – 1985 St. Christine’s Church, Youngstown, OH
1986 – 1988 Immaculate Conception Church, Ravenna, OH
1989 – 1991 St. Mary’s Church, Canton, OH
1992 Not indexed
1993 – 1994 St. Anthony’s Church, Canton, OH
1995 – 1997 1995 – 1997
1998 – 1999 St. Charles Borromeo Church, Boardman, OH
2000 – 2005 St. Peter of the Fields Church, Rootstown, OH
2006 – 2009 Our Lady of Peace Church, Canton, OH
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 Crum is not indexed after the 2009 Official Catholic Directory.
Summary:
  • Father Thomas J. Crum was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on one occasion in approximately 1981 when the boy was approximately 12 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Crum was assigned to St. Christine’s Church in Youngstown, Ohio. The sexual abuse took place in a hotel in Colorado during a trip Father Crum took with the boy.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Crum included the following: Father Crum gave the boy alcohol to drink, and the boy felt the effects of the alcohol. Father Crum then removed all of his clothing and instructed the boy to remove his own clothing. Father Crum then placed the boy’s hand on Father Crum’s erect penis, skin-on-skin.
  • The claim settled in 2020 in the low five figures.

Father Alphonse Dallinger – Diocese of Brooklyn

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1938—1940 St. Mary’s Church in Flushing, NY
1941—1943 St. Robert Bellarmine Church in Bayside Hills, NY
1944—1967 St. Teresa’s Church in Brooklyn, NY
1968—1978 St. Mark’s Church in Brooklyn, NY
1979 St. Mark’s Church (Retired) in Brooklyn, NY
1980—1983 St. Mark’s Church (Pastor Emeritus) in Brooklyn, NY
1984—1989 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 Dallinger died April 7, 1989.
  • Father Dallinger was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least 100 occasions from approximately 1970 until approximately 1973 when the boy was approximately 10 to 13 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Dallinger was assigned to St. Mark’s Church in Brooklyn, New York.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Dallinger included the following: Father Dallinger fondling the boy’s genitals over the boy’s clothing, Father Dallinger having the boy fondle Father Dallinger’s genitals over Father Dallinger’s clothing, Father Dallinger pulling down the boy’s pants and underwear and fondling the boy’s genitals skin-on-skin, Father Dallinger exposing his genitals to the boy, Father Dallinger having the boy fondle Father Dallinger’s genitals skin on skin, and Father Dallinger inserting his finger into the boy’s anus.
  • The Diocese of Brooklyn agreed to settle the claim in the high five figures in 2021.

Father Arthur Devlin, S.M. – Marist Fathers of Boston, a/k/a Society of Mary of the U.S.A.

Partial Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1945 Ordained by the Marist Fathers
1947 – 1949 St. Michael’s Church, Wheeling, WV (Diocese of Wheeling)
1950 – 1955 “Marist Missionaries” (no location provided)
1956 – 1957 South Solomon Island T.N.G. (listed as serving within the Archdiocese of Washington D.C.)
1958 All Hallows Church, San Francisco, CA (Archdiocese of San Francisco)
1959 St. Peter Chanel Seminary, San Rafael, CA (Archdiocese of San Francisco)
1960 – 1962 Marist College & Seminary, Framingham, MA (Archdiocese of Boston)
1963 – 1966 Marist Mission House, Staten Island, NY (Archdiocese of New York)
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 Arthur Devlin, S.M. was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least three occasions in approximately 1959 when the male child was approximately thirteen years old. The boy came to know Father Devlin because Father Devlin was apparently the nephew of Father Charles McInnis, the pastor of Our Lady of Presentation Church in Brighton, Massachusetts, the boy’s parish.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Devlin took place in multiple locations when Father Devlin took the boy on trips. The abuse included the following: Father Devlin fondled the boy’s penis and testicles, skin-on-skin, and Father Devlin inserted his finger into the boy’s anus.
  • The claim settled in April 2020 in the mid five figures.

Father Leon Dicks, O.F.M.Conv. - Diocese of Trenton - Conventual Franciscans, Province of the Immaculate Conception

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1957 Ordained by the Conventual Franciscans
1958 St. Francis Seminary, New York City, NY
1959 – 1967 St. Francis Hospital (chaplain), Trenton, NJ (Diocese of Trenton)
1968 – 1970 Catholic Information Center, Binghamton, NY
1971 – 1972 St. Peter’s Church, Riverside, NJ (Diocese of Trenton)
1973 – 1987 St. Francis Hospital (chaplain), Trenton, NJ (Diocese of Trenton); In approx. 1975, the hospital was renamed “St. Francis Medical Center”
1988 Assumption B.V.M. Church, Syracuse, NY
1988 Provincial House of the Immaculate Conception Province, Syracuse, NY
1989 – 1991 St. Bartholomew’s Church, Camden, NJ
1992 – 1993 San Damiano Friary, Holyoke, MA
1994 St. Peter’s Church, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ (Diocese of Trenton)
1995 Franciscan Mission House, Rensselaer, NY
1996 – 2002 Not indexed
2003 – 2005 St. Cecilia Church, Fonda, NY
2005 The National Shrine of Blessed Kateri Yekakwitha and Friary, Fonda, NY
2006 – 2009 Not indexed
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 Dicks died in 2009.
  • Father Leon Dicks, O.F.M.Conv. was accused of sexually abusing a female minor child on approximately thirty occasions from approximately 1958 to 1961 when the female child was approximately eleven to fourteen years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Dicks was assigned as a chaplain at St. Francis Hospital in Trenton, New Jersey, and the female child received treatment on multiple occasions at the hospital. The sexual abuse took place in the girl’s hospital room.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Dicks included the following: Father Dicks kissed the girl on the lips, inserting his tongue into her mouth. Father Dicks fondled the girl’s vagina and penetrated her vagina with his fingers. Father Dicks exposed his penis to the girl and forced the girl to touch his penis with her hand and kiss his penis.
  • The claim settled in May 2020 in the low six figures.
  1. Father Lawrence W. Donovan – Diocese of Trenton
  2. Father Robert Dunphy – Diocese of Camden
  3. Deacon William Emerson – Archdiocese of Boston
  4. Father Robert D. Fay - Archdiocese of Boston
  5. Monsignor J. Francis Feenan – Diocese of Paterson
  6. Father Romano J. Ferraro – Diocese of Brooklyn, Diocese of Methuen
  7. Father Merle Fisher - Marist Fathers
  8. Father Joseph L. Fitzharris – Archdiocese of Chicago
  9. Father Conran Free, C.P. - Congregation of the Passion (“Passionists”) - Diocese of Scranton
  10. Father Lawrence Gadek – Archdiocese of Newark
  11. Father Richard M. Galdon – Archdiocese of Newark
  12. Father Brian Gallagher, S.S.C.
  13. Father Vincent J. Gallo – Diocese of Brooklyn
  14. Father Michael Garry – Diocese of Trenton
  15. Father James M. Gibbons - Archdiocese of Boston
  16. Father Augustine M. Giella – Diocese of Harrisburg
  17. Father Denis Ginty – Archdiocese of Los Angeles
  18. Father J. Gerard Griffin– Diocese of Trenton, Diocese of Springfield
  19. Bishop Dinualdo Gutierrez
  20. Monsignor James J. Haddad - Archdiocese of Boston
  21. Father Michael H. Hansen – Archdiocese of Newark
  22. Father Patrick J. Healy – Diocese of Erie
  23. Monsignor Herman Heide – Archdiocese of New York
  24. Father Douglas U. Hermansen – Diocese of Trenton
  25. Father Charles Herr – Archdiocese of Newark
  26. Father Donald Hickey – Diocese of Trenton
  27. Father Daniel M. Holihan – Archdiocese of Chicago
  28. Father Ernest Karl Huller – Diocese of Springfield
  29. Monsignor Thomas M. Jordan – Diocese of Scranton
  30. Father Charles Kane – Archdiocese of Boston
  31. Father Thomas C. Kelley – Diocese of Erie
  32. Monsignor Joseph P. Kelly – Diocese of Scranton
  33. Father Robert J. Klem, C.S.B. – Congregation of St. Basil, a.k.a. the Basilians, and the Diocese of Rochester
  34. Father Eugene Kwapisz, O.F.M. Conv. - Order of Minors Friar Conventual, St. Anthony of Padua Province - Diocese of Trenton
  35. Serio “Charlie” La Penna - Archdiocese of Boston
  36. Father Victor C. LaVoie - Archdiocese of Boston
  37. Father Roger R. Leblanc - Archdiocese of Boston
  38. Father Theodore F. Llanos – Archdiocese of Los Angeles
  39. Father Salvatore Luzzi – Diocese of Erie
  40. Father Gerald F. Lyons – Diocese of Trenton