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Summary of Case: Neil P. McLaughlin was ordained a Jesuit of the Maryland Province in 1959. He spent the bulk of his ministry in the Scranton, PA diocese, as a Scranton Preparatory School science teacher and later as a campus minister and alumni club administrator at the University of Scranton. He was sent to a Highland Park, NJ parish for a year or so in 1964, then returned to Scranton. From the mid-1960s to the early 1980s McLaughlin spent summers as a Georgetown University Hospital chaplain. He also helped out at Scranton area parishes throughout the years. In 2006 McLaughlin was removed from ministry by the Jesuits after a review of his personnel file revealed an allegation of child sexual abuse from “much earlier.” In 2008 a woman reported to the province what they deemed a credible allegation that McLaughlin sexually abused her in 1963 in Scranton, when she was a young girl. The allegations weren’t made public until 2010, after McLaughlin told his order that “there may be other victims” in Scranton. McLaughlin was known in 2010 to be living in a Jesuit Community in Baltimore.
Ordained: 1959
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