BERGEN (NJ)
Bergen Record
Dec. 6, 2019
By Abbott Koloff
Timothy Brennan, a former Delbarton School teacher and priest who has been the subject of at least 10 sex abuse settlements, died Wednesday at a Missouri treatment center for clerics, where he had been living for years, according to authorities.
Police responded to a call Wednesday morning about a “deceased person” at the center, which is in the community of Dittmer in the eastern part of the state, said Capt. Charles Subke of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office.
Brennan, 79, died of “natural causes,” he said.
The priest was sentenced to probation in 1987 after pleading guilty to aggravated sexual contact with a 15-year-old Delbarton student. St. Mary’s Abbey and the Order of St. Benedict in New Jersey, which runs the Morris Township school, paid more than $1 million to settle a claim by the student’s family.
Over the past few years, the order has settled nine lawsuits related to additional claims against Brennan, according to court records. Details of the settlements have not been disclosed.
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