NEW YORK (NY)
The New York Post

October 13, 2018

By Eileen AJ Connelly

A former Staten Island pastor and celebrated Irish musician is the latest priest with a “credible” child sex-abuse allegation levied, according to a report.

Monsignor Charles Coen, who led St. Joseph-St. Thomas R.C. Parish on Staten Island for about 10 years beginning in 1975, was among four monsignors and a priest named as having “an allegation of sexual abuse of minors brought against them in the Archdiocese’s Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program,” the Staten Island Advance reported, citing Catholic New York, the archdiocese’s newspaper.

Coen, who served at St. Paul’s R.C. Church on Staten Island prior to leading St. Joseph-St. Thomas, is a native of County Galway who came to the U.S. in 1955.