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 Joseph McHugh – Diocese of Trenton

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1973 Ordained in the Diocese of Trenton
1974 – 1978 St. Mary’s Church, New Monmouth, NJ
1975 – 1983 Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Maple Shade, NJ; Note: from 1975 to 1978, Father McHugh is assigned at both St. Mary’s Church and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church
1984 – 1985 St. Gregory the Great Church, Trenton, NJ
1986 St. Raphael’s Church, Trenton, NJ
1987 – 1990 St. Joseph’s Church, Beverly, NJ
1991 – 1996 St. Thomas More Church, Manalapan, NJ
1997 – 2002 “Leave of Absence”
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 Joseph McHugh was accused of sexually abusing a female minor child on at least ten occasions from approximately 1974 to 1975 when the female child was approximately six to seven years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father McHugh was assigned to Our Lady of Perpetual Church in Maple Shade, New Jersey, and the female child was a parishioner of the church and a student at the parochial school affiliated with the church. The sexual abuse took place at the girl’s family home in Maple Shade.
  • The sexual abuse by Father McHugh included the following: Father McHugh fondled the girl’s chest, buttocks and genitals over the girl’s clothing.
  • The claim settled in February 2020 in the low five figures.

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.

Father Francis G. McInerney - Archdiocese of Boston

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1936 Ordained
1937-1945 St. Brendan’s Church, Dorchester, Boston, MA
1946-1951 St. Thomas of Villanova Church, Wilmington, MA
1952-1958 St. Margaret’s Church, Brockton, MA
1959 St. Clement’s Church, Somerville, MA
1960 Died April 6, 1959
Source:
  • The Official Catholic Directory, Kenedy & Sons
Summary:
  • Father Francis G. McInerney was accused of sexually abusing two female minor children; one girl was sexually abused by Father McInerney on one occasion in approximately 1948 when the girl was approximately fourteen years old; another girl was sexually abused in approximately 1948 when the girl was approximately nine years old. At the time of the sexual sexual abuse, Father McInerney was assigned to St. Thomas of Villanova Church in Wilmington, Massachusetts. One girl was sexually abused in the sun room just outside the rectory of St. Thomas of Villanova Church and the other girl was sexually abused in the vestibule of St. Thomas of Villanova Church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father McInerney included the following: Father McInerney fondled one girl’s breasts over her clothes and the other girl was digitally penetrated by Father
    McInerney.
  • Both claims settled in June 2023 in the mid-to-high five figures.

Father Thomas McKenna – Diocese of Pittsburgh

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1972 Ordained in the Diocese of Pittsburgh
1972 – 1973 St. Anselm Church, Swissvale, PA
1973 – 1978 Immaculate Conception Church, Washington, PA
1978 – 1979 St. Maurice Church, Forest Hills, PA
1979 “Leave of Absence”
1979 – 1982 St. Kieran Church, Lawrenceville, PA
1982 – 1984 St. John Fisher Church, Churchill, PA
1984 – 1986 Holy Innocents Church, Sheraden, PA
1986 – 1987 Sewickley Valley Hospital (chaplain), Sewickley, PA
1987 – 1988 Forbes Regional Hospital (chaplain), Monroeville, PA
1988 – 1994 St. Edward Church, Blawnox, PA
1994 – 1998 Our Lady of Fatima Church, Hopewell, PA
1998 State Correctional Institution – Pittsburgh (chaplain), Pittsburgh, PA
1998 Allegheny University Medical Center (chaplain)
1998 – 2004 St. Patrick – St. Stanislaus Church, Pittsburgh, PA
Sources:
  • Report I of the 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury, released by the Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General, dated July 27, 2018; and
  • The Official Catholic Directory, Kenedy & Sons

 

Summary:
  • Per the Grand Jury report, Father McKenna received treatment at the St. Luke Institute in 2004 and “withdrew from active ministry” that same year.
  • Father Thomas McKenna was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least ten occasions from approximately 1979 to 1981 when the male child was approximately thirteen to fifteen years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father McKenna was assigned to St. Kieran’s Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the boy served as an altar boy at the church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father McKenna included the following: Father McKenna reached into the front of the boy’s pants and underwear and grabbed and fondled the boy’s penis and testicles, skin-on-skin. Father McKenna also fondled the boy’s buttocks, skin-on-skin. Father McKenna sometimes forced the boy to fondle Father McKenna’s genitals.
  • The claim settled in May 2020 in the low five figures.
  1. Father William McKeone – Diocese of Trenton
  2. Father Paul J. McLaughlin – Archdiocese of Boston
  3. Father F. Dominic Menna – Archdiocese of Boston (at times indexed as “Fiori D. Menna”)
  4. Father John L. Murray – Diocese of Erie
  5. Monsignor John O’Donnell – Archdiocese of Los Angeles
  6. Father Francis E. O’Brien, Jr. – Archdiocese of Boston
  7. Father Denis O’Driscoll, S.M.A. – Society of African Missions
  8. Father Martin O’Hara – Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  9. Father George Parme – Diocese of Pittsburgh
  10. Father Gabriel Patil, c.r.s.p. – Diocese of Allentown / The Barnabites
  11. Father Robert Patterson – Archdiocese of Newark
  12. Father John P. Paul – Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  13. Father Michael Pecharich – Diocese of Orange
  14. Father John Piatkowski – Diocese of Erie
  15. Father William Presley – Diocese of Erie
  16. Father Joseph J. Pucci, O.M.I.
  17. Father Paul V. Rattigan – Archdiocese of Boston
  18. Father Michael J. Regan
  19. Brother Remigius, C.F.X., a/k/a Francis O’Lone – Xaverian Brothers
  20. Father Joseph P. Rice – Archdiocese of Newark
  21. Brother Donald Richard, F.M.S. - Archdiocese of Newark - Marist Brothers of the Schools
  22. Father Edward Richard – Diocese of Manchester
  23. Father Thomas A. Riley – Archdiocese of Boston
  24. Father Eugene Riordan, S.M.A. – Society of African Missions
  25. Father James J. Rosch – Diocese of Albany
  26. Father Sylvio Ruest – Archdiocese of Boston
  27. Father Robert F. Ryan – Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  28. Father John Salvucci – Archdiocese of Boston
  29. Father William I. Shinnick - Archdiocese of Boston
  30. Father Edward Shoback – Diocese of Scranton
  31. Father David Soderlund – Diocese of Allentown
  32. Father Leonard P. Spanburgh – Archdiocese of Newark
  33. Father Francis Stinner – Archdiocese of New York
  34. Father John Stonebridge – Diocese of Brooklyn
  35. Father Gerard Sudol – Archdiocese of Newark
  36. Father Bernard L. Sullivan – Archdiocese of Boston
  37. Father John T. Sullivan – Diocese of Manchester, Diocese of Grand Rapids, Diocese of Gallup, Diocese of Phoenix
  38. Father T. Raymond Sullivan – Archdiocese of Boston
  39. Father Patrick J. Tague – Archdiocese of Boston
  40. Father Arthur Taraborelli – Archdiocese of Philadelphia