Fr. Michael Melendez
Requested personal leave in 2004. Laicized in 5/2008. Was a religion teacher at St. Francis Preparatory High School in Queens in 2024 when suspended during an investigation of three allegations of the sexual abuse of a minor, occurring in the 1990s. The allegations were deemed credible by the Diocesan Review Board, after which Melendez was fired from St. Francis Prep and from his position as Director of Religious Education at a Howard Beach parish.
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