Fr. Joseph P. Byrns
Placed on leave in 7/2002. One of 12 priests accused of abuse in a civil suit filed in Brooklyn in 10/2002. In the suit, two brothers (one of them a priest) claimed Byrns sexually abused them for years as children in the late-1960s and early-1970s. Byrns was criminally charged in 8/2004 with the abuse of a third youth, beginning in 2000. He pleaded guilty in 1/2006 and was sentenced to three years’ probation in 3/2006. Laicized 5/18/2013. Included on the Diocese’s list in 2/2019.
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