ROCKVILLE CENTRE (NY)
News 12 Long Island
February 19, 2019
Two women have come forward with claims they were sexually abused by late Bishop John McGann and other clergy members on Long Island.
News 12 has learned both of the women grew up in the St. Agnes Parish in Rockville Centre and are now in their 60s.
Both women declined to speak to reporters on Tuesday. Their attorney, Mitchell Garabedian, says one woman was repeatedly sexually abused by then-Msgr. John McGann, Msgr. Edward Melton and Father Robert L. Brown. The second woman alleges she was sexually abused once by McGann and Melton and repeatedly by the parish janitor, John Hanlon.
In particular, the women allege that in 1967, when they were both 11 years old, they attended a Christmas party in the St. Agnes rectory. According to their attorney, the women remember being passed around to the laps of multiple priests who were in the room.
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