Fr. Dennis A. Rigney

Ordained: 1966
Status: Sued

Diocese: Diocese of Allentown PA

Director of Catholic Charities for over 36 years and other prominent chancery positions. Diocese received a report in 4/1987 that Rigney fondled a 12- or -13-year-old girl. Complaint in 1989 that Rigney fired a Holy Family Manor nurse’s aid because she resisted his sexual advances. In 4/2002 a woman told the diocese that Rigney molested her over one year, in 1966-1967, when she was age 9 or 10 and he was assigned to St. Peter’s in Reading. She said Rigney also molested her sister. Rigney requested early retirement in 4/2002 for ‘medical reasons.’ Sued in 1/2004 for the alleged abuse of a 9-year-old girl. Included in the 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report and on the diocese’s 8/19/208 list of credibly accused.


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