Fr. John Joseph Keough Feeney
Named publicly as accused in the 3/4/2026 RI Attorney General’s Report. In 2004 the Diocese received a report that in 1965 Feeney sexually assaulted two teenage boys at a beach house in Narragansett. The beach house belonged to Fr. William O’Connell, who was later convicted of child sexual abuse. The boys had been playing cards and drinking with the priests. Feeney allegedly rubbed up against the boy; his accuser said he also saw him penetrate another boy. Feeney died in 1974.
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