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	Former Chaplain Defrocked from Priesthood WBAL May 20, 2008 http://www.wbaltv.com/news/16336654/detail.html BALTIMORE — The Archdiocese of Baltimore said a former Calvert Hall College high school chaplain who abused a student in the 1980s has been officially dismissed from the priesthood, or defrocked. 11 News Reporter Jennifer Franciotti Pope Benedict XVI, at the request of the archdiocese, dismissed 62-year-old Jerome "Jeff" Toohey, of Lutherville, from the clerical state three years after he pleaded guilty in Baltimore County Circuit Court to abusing a minor. 11 News Reporter Jennifer Franciotti He was sentenced to 18 months in prison and served 10 months before being placed on home detention. A statement from the church said Toohey was removed from the ministry and had his faculties to function as a priest removed in 1993, when the archdiocese received a credible allegation that he had molested a John Carroll High School student in the 1980s.
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