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Summary of Case: A California Province Jesuit ordained in 1946, Monaghan worked as a high school teacher and counselor, and as a parish priest. He was assigned to San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento and Santa Clara, CA, as well as to Phoenix, AZ. Monaghan was accused in the early 1990s of molesting a 7-year-old girl during a counseling session between 1988-1989 in Sacramento. He pleaded no contest to charges related to the accusation and was sentenced to 120 hours of community service and five years’ probation. Monaghan was sent to live at the Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, CA in 1992, where he remained until his death on October 18, 2004.
Ordained: 1946
Died: Oct. 18, 2004
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