CONNECTICUT
CT Post
By Neil Vigdor Thursday, January 7, 2016
A Catholic priest who fought to clear his name from being associated with a $12 million sexual abuse settlement against the Diocese of Bridgeport and was a cousin of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has died.
The Rev. Joseph J. Malloy, 71, who was assigned to parishes in Bridgeport, Trumbull, Stratford and the gov ernor’s home city of Stamford , died Saturday at Stamford Hospital. He was laid to rest Wednesday.
The clergyman went to his grave maintaining that he never fondled a former altar boy at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Trumbull, as he was accused of doing by the unidentified parishioner and the man’s attorney.
But the diocese, beset by 26 claims of sexual abuse, agreed to include Malloy in the 2001 settlement that named five other priests. All but two of them were defrocked.
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