Fr. John H. Flanagan
Named publicly as accused in the 3/4/2026 RI Attorney General’s Report. A woman reported to the Diocese in 2016 that she was sexually abused by Flanagan in the 1960s, beginning in 1963 when she was 6-years-old and he was newly assigned to St. Patrick’s in Cumberland. He had recently resided for 13 months at the Servants of the Paraclete’s Via Coeli in Jemez Springs NM. The woman said the abuse occurred several times per week until she was about 13. Flanagan died in 1973.
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