St. Cecelia’s sex assault priest gets 4 years in prison

NEW JERSEY
NJToday

September 4, 2019

A Roman Catholic priest was sentenced to four years in state prison for sexually assaulting a teenage girl while he was a youth group adviser at a church in Woodbridge Township, during the early 1990s.

Father Thomas P. Ganley, 64, of Phillipsburg, N.J., was sentenced to four years in state prison by Superior Court Judge Diane Pincus in Middlesex County on August 26, 2019 .

He pleaded guilty on April 8 to second-degree sexual assault, admitting that he engaged in sexual acts with the victim when she was 16 or 17 years old, at a time when he had supervisory authority over her.

From 1990 through 1994, Ganley was a priest at St. Cecelia Church in the Iselin section of the township where the criminal acts occurred.

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