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 John H. Curley – Archdiocese of Boston

Assignment Record:

YearsAssignment
1966 Ordained in the Archdiocese of Boston
1967 – 1972 St. Francis of Assisi Church, Braintree, MA
1973 – 1976 St. Gerard Majella Church, Canton, MA
1977 – 1984 St. Augustine’s Church, Boston, MA
1985 – 1986 Not indexed
1987 “Awaiting assignment”
1988 – 1993 Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Concord, MA
1994 Not indexed
1995 – 1996 St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Brighton, MA
1997 – 1999 St. Mary’s Church, Dedham, MA
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 Curley died in 1999.
  • In addition to Father Curley’s assignments listed above from the Official Catholic Directory, Father Curley was known to be the director of the Pilgrim Center, a residence for troubled youth in Braintree, Massachusetts.
  • Father John Curley was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on one occasion in approximately 1981 when the boy was approximately 12 years old. The boy came to know Father Curley through the boy’s residence at the Pilgrim Center. The sexual abuse by Father Curley took place at a house which the boy believed to be Father Curley’s house.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Curley included the following: Father Curley fondled the boy’s penis and testicles, both over the boy’s clothing and skin-on-skin. Then Father Curley forced the boy to perform oral sex on him until Father Curley ejaculated.
  • The claim settled in 2020 in the high five figures.

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.
  1. Father Leon Dicks, O.F.M.Conv. - Diocese of Trenton - Conventual Franciscans, Province of the Immaculate Conception
  2. Father Lawrence W. Donovan – Diocese of Trenton
  3. Father Robert Dunphy – Diocese of Camden
  4. Deacon William Emerson – Archdiocese of Boston
  5. Father Robert D. Fay - Archdiocese of Boston
  6. Monsignor J. Francis Feenan – Diocese of Paterson
  7. Father Romano J. Ferraro – Diocese of Brooklyn, Diocese of Methuen
  8. Father Merle Fisher - Marist Fathers
  9. Father Joseph L. Fitzharris – Archdiocese of Chicago
  10. Father Conran Free, C.P. - Congregation of the Passion (“Passionists”) - Diocese of Scranton
  11. Father Lawrence Gadek – Archdiocese of Newark
  12. Father Richard M. Galdon – Archdiocese of Newark
  13. Father Brian Gallagher, S.S.C.
  14. Father Vincent J. Gallo – Diocese of Brooklyn
  15. Father Michael Garry – Diocese of Trenton
  16. Father James M. Gibbons - Archdiocese of Boston
  17. Father Augustine M. Giella – Diocese of Harrisburg
  18. Father Denis Ginty – Archdiocese of Los Angeles
  19. Father J. Gerard Griffin– Diocese of Trenton, Diocese of Springfield
  20. Bishop Dinualdo Gutierrez
  21. Monsignor James J. Haddad - Archdiocese of Boston
  22. Father Michael H. Hansen – Archdiocese of Newark
  23. Father Patrick J. Healy – Diocese of Erie
  24. Monsignor Herman Heide – Archdiocese of New York
  25. Father Douglas U. Hermansen – Diocese of Trenton
  26. Father Charles Herr – Archdiocese of Newark
  27. Father Donald Hickey – Diocese of Trenton
  28. Father Daniel M. Holihan – Archdiocese of Chicago
  29. Father Ernest Karl Huller – Diocese of Springfield
  30. Monsignor Thomas M. Jordan – Diocese of Scranton
  31. Father Charles Kane – Archdiocese of Boston
  32. Father Thomas C. Kelley – Diocese of Erie
  33. Monsignor Joseph P. Kelly – Diocese of Scranton
  34. Father Robert J. Klem, C.S.B. – Congregation of St. Basil, a.k.a. the Basilians, and the Diocese of Rochester
  35. Father Eugene Kwapisz, O.F.M. Conv. - Order of Minors Friar Conventual, St. Anthony of Padua Province - Diocese of Trenton
  36. Serio “Charlie” La Penna - Archdiocese of Boston
  37. Father Victor C. LaVoie - Archdiocese of Boston
  38. Father Roger R. Leblanc - Archdiocese of Boston
  39. Father Theodore F. Llanos – Archdiocese of Los Angeles
  40. Father Salvatore Luzzi – Diocese of Erie