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The Rev. Gerard W. Chambers
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Doylestown: May 1944 until Dec. 1945.
Allegations/outcome: Abused six boys - five of them altar servers - in the late 1950s while stationed at Seven Dolors in Springfield, Montgomery County, and at St. Gregory's Parish in Philadelphia. The Archdiocese was notified of one case in 1994 and paid that victim $6,890 for past therapy in exchanged for a signed release form. The other complaints were lodged in 2002 and 2004. Chambers died in 1974.
The Rev. James J. Coonan
Nativity of Our Lord, Warminster: June 1973 until Jan. 1975; Holy Redeemer Health System, Huntingdon Valley: June 1999 until Feb. 2001.
Allegations/outcome: Abused two boys - one 14 years old and the other 15 years old - in 1966 or 1967 while stationed at Queen of the Universe Parish in Levittown. The Archdiocese was notified in Jan. 2002, and his duties were restricted to private Mass. He retired in Feb. 2002 and in Oct. 2004 he agreed to the "removal of his priestly faculties."