ALBANY (NY)
Albany Times Union
ALBANY — The Albany Roman Catholic Diocese has placed a Greene County priest on administrative leave pending the outcome of investigations into allegations of sexual abuse of a minor. The Diocese has referred the allegations to the Greene County District Attorney’s Office.
Rev. Jeremiah Nunan, 74, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Cairo and Our Lady of Knock Mission in East Durham, is temporarily barred from officiating at any sacraments, wearing clerical garb, or presenting himself as a priest, according to a statement from the diocese. The action is being announced at weekend Masses at the two parishes.
The diocese acted after a civil lawsuit was filed claiming that Nunan sexually abused an individual between 1996 and 2003 when the individual was a minor and between 2007 and 2011 when the individual was an adult. The lawsuit named as defendants Nunan, one of the parishes and the diocese. Nunan has denied the allegations.
This is the second time Nunan has been placed on administrative leave by the diocese during an investigation of an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor. The previous allegation, received in 2006 and involving alleged abuse in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Hudson, was investigated by the diocese’s Independent Mediation Assistance Program, and could not be substantiated, the diocese stated. As a result, the diocese restored Nunan to ministry.
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