Fr. Daniel A. Calabrese

Pleaded guilty in 4/1992 to sodomizing a 16-year-old boy on 3/7/1992. Calabrese plied the boy with alcohol before the abusing him in the rectory of St. Mary Parish in Poughkeepsie. In 10/1992 he was sentenced to 90 days in jail, five years probation, and one year of treatment. He had previously been transferred twice because of allegations involving youths, and was nonetheless put in charge of youth programs at St. Mary’s. A civil lawsuit was filed in 1993. Calabrese was living in New Mexico as of 2003, listed in Official Catholic Directory as on “leave of absence.” He was laicized in 2005. Included on the Archdiocese’s 4/26/2019 list of credibly accused. Accused in a lawsuit filed in 8/2019 under the NY Child Victims Act of sexually abusing child, age 13-14, at Blessed Sacrament in West Brighton in 1989-1990. Accused in a 12/2019 lawsuit of the sexual abuse of a boy, age 13, prior to ordination, in the showers at St. Joseph’s Seminary; another person allegedly attempted a sex act on the boy at the same time.