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Summary of Case: Thomas J. Naughton was ordained a priest of the Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus in 1965. He went on to work in high schools, parishes and retreat houses across the South, as part of the Jesuit’s New Orleans Province, with a two-year stint in St. Louis, MO and a year in Berkeley, CA. In the mid-1990s he relocated to southern California where he worked as a visiting priest in a a Mission Viejo parish. He was removed in April 2002 after a man reported to the Jesuits that Naughton sexually abused him in 1978 at Jesuit College Preparatory School in Dallas, TX, when Naughton was the school’s president. Naughton, as it was reported in 2002, was removed from Dallas’ Jesuit Prep. in 1979 after he attempted to grope a young faculty member in a locker room whirlpool and was seen in the same one-person tub with someone else. Naughton was recalled to the New Orleans Province after his 2002 removal, and at some point returned to southern California. He died in August 2012.
Ordained: 1965
Died: Aug. 6, 2012
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