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Summary of Case: After completing seminary training in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Francis McGrath was ordained for the Diocese of Trenton NJ in 1978. He assisted parishes in Redbank, Trenton and Tom’s River, and he served for a time as chaplain at McCorriston High School. In 1995 a man reported to the Archdiocese of Baltimore that McGrath had sexually abused him as a minor in the early 1970s, when McGrath was a seminarian. The archdiocese informed the Diocese of Trenton; McGrath admitted to the sexual abuse of “three or four victims” during his time in Trenton, and went on leave. The Official Catholic Directory shows McGrath as “Absent on Leave” through 2002, the year another individual alleged abuse by McGrath, in the mid-1970s.

Ordained: 1978