PHILADELPHIA (PA)
New York Daily News
By Rheana Murray / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Friday, May 25, 2012
A Catholic priest removed from the ministry ten years ago for sexually abusing young girls has found another job — with the TSA.
Thomas Harkins, once a priest at churches throughout South Jersey, now works as a TSA supervisor at the Philadelphia International Airport, CBS Philly reports.
He was forced to leave the church in 2002, when the Diocese of Camden found him guilty of sexually abusing two young girls.
Now, a third alleged victim has come forward, according to the station.
In a new lawsuit, Harkins is accused of sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl as many as 15 times between 1980 and 1981. One of the alleged incidents occurred in Harkins’ bedroom at the rectory of Saint Anthony of Padua parish in Hammonton, N.J, where Harkins worked at the time.
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