NEW JERSEY
Observer-Tribune
Former Mendham priest allegedly committed sex assault while passing through Randolph
MENDHAM — A Catholic priest who retired from St. Joseph Church under a cloud and who now lives in El Paso, Texas, has been charged with committing an act of criminal sexual contact while on a bus passing through Randolph Township.
Acting Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp and Randolph Township Police Chief David Stokoe said in a joint statement Friday that the Rev. Philip Briganti, 67 years old, of El Paso, Texas, has been charged with one count of criminal sexual contact, a crime of the fourth degree, for acts involving an adult male.
Briganti is a retired Paterson Diocesan priest presently living in El Paso, according to police.
He had briefly returned to officiate a wedding at St. Paul’s Church in Prospect Park, on Nov. 9, police said.
Briganti had been the former pastor at St. Joseph Church in Mendham, before his resignation in 2005.
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