PENNSYLVANIA
The Reporter
JACOB FENTON, Staff Writer 09/27/2005
The Philadelphia Archdiocese on Sunday ended the assignment of a priest accused of molesting at least six seventh-grade boys at St. Mary Elementary School in Schwenksville between 1989 and 1990.
Robert L. Brennan‚ accused of molesting a total of more than 20 boys from four different parishes‚ was relieved of his assignment as chaplain at a retirement home for nuns‚ the archdiocese said in a brief statement Monday.
Citing the “extraordinary attention” Brennan and another priest had received‚ the archdiocese said the two would remain without assignments until “such time as a permanent‚ long-term plan can be determined.”
The other priest‚ John H. Mulholland‚ was described in the Philadelphia grand jury’s report released last week on the clergy sex scandal as “sick and dangerous” and accused of having “strung up” a young boy and “piercing him or at least jabbing him with some instrument all over his body.”