Fr. Francis Joseph McNelis
In 12/1992 a man told the diocese that McNelis sexually abused him 1966-1968, when he was a 10 -to 13-year-old altar boy. McNelis was sent in 1993 to Paracletes in NM for treatment. Reassigned in 1/1994 to St. Ignatius parish in Sinking Spring PA, where he remained until his removal in 3/2002. In 2004 a man reported to the diocese that when he was age 16 in 1968, McNelis forcibly orally copulated him on two occasions. Two lawsuits in 2004. McNelis died 3/24/2005. Named in the 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report. Included on the Allentown diocese’s 8/19/18 list of credibly accused.
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