Fr. Joseph A. Davies
Monsignor. Parish priest, prep school chaplain, prison chaplain, archdiocesan Director of Catholic Boy Scouts, active in Volunteers for America, where he worked at two facilities for children. Died 2/3/1992. In 1993 the Archdiocese received multiple allegations of child sexual abuse against Davies. Resigned in 1990 due to his misuse of funds at St. Joseph Parish. One man alleged sexual abuse by Davies in the 1960s at St. Joseph’s in Hagerstown. The allegations were not announced publicly until 8/13/2015, in an archdiocesan press release, which stated a man alleged abuse by Davies as a child in the 1950s. The statement acknowledged there were other allegations, without elaborating. Included on the Archdiocese’s 12/14/2018 list, which shows numerous allegations of child sex abuse received against Davies. Included in the 4/5/2023 MD Attorney General’s Report, which notes that Davies sexually abused, including rape, at least eight boys in the 1950s and 1960s.
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