Fr. James F. Farry
First named publicly as accused in the 8/14/18 PA Grand Jury Report. Died 1990. Sent to live at St. Michael’s School for Boys in Hoban Heights in 1/54 after suffering an aneurism. Bishop Hannan moved Farry in 5/60 due to the priest’s “intolerable” relations with the guests there. Farry was transferred to Cure of Ars Hospice. He later assisted at St. Mary’s in Old Forge, was chaplain at St. Mary’s Vialla in Elmhurst, then resided at St. Boniface in Willaimsport 11/76-6/90. He died in 1990. In 2006 a man reported to the diocese that when he was a resident as a child of St. Michael’s 1953-54, he was sexually abused by a priest, later identified as Farry. The diocese agreed to take care of the man’s counseling co-payments. On diocese’s list 8/19/18 (as James E.).
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