PHILADELPHIA (PA)
PhillyBurbs
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Defense lawyers for an accused predator-priest who had been stationed three times in Bucks County are challenging evidence that he once told church supervisors he had been sexually abused as a boy.
The Rev. James Brennan, 48, is charged with sexually assaulting a teen in 1996, when he was on leave from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Brennan was stationed at St. Andrew Parish in Newtown Township from 1989 to 1991 and later at parishes in Lower Southampton and Feasterville.
While serving there, the grand jury report alleges, the priest befriended a 9-year-old parishioner identified only as “Mark.”
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