Priest gets 4 years for raping minor in the 90s in first conviction after AG’s clergy abuse task force

NEWARK (NJ)
Star Ledger

August 26, 2019

By Sophie Nieto-Munoz

Disgraced Roman Catholic priest Thomas Ganley was sentenced to four years in prison Monday afternoon after pleading guilty to raping and sexually assaulting a minor under the age of 16 in the 1990s.

Ganley, 64, will also register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law, is forbidden to contact the victim or her family and cannot be with anyone under the age of 18 unsupervised. He reached a plea agreement with the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office after he was arrested in January.

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