Fr. Francis T. Brennan
In 1962 a 12-year-old altar boy at St. Therese’s in Kingston Township alleged that in 1961 Brennan sexually abused him, including sodomy. He said he told a priest at his school, Fr. Michael Rafferty; Brennan was reassigned to a convent, then assigned in 1970 to a parish. A civil lawsuit was filed in 2005; the court ruled in 2006 that the plaintiff waited too long to file suit. In 4/2010 a 65-year-old man told the Diocese that Brennan molested him at age 15 or 16. Brennan died 7/28/1974. Included in the 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report. Included on the Diocese’s list 8/19/2018.
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