Fr. Henry McGill
Monsignor. From Ireland. Became a U.S. citizen in 1945. Arrived in TX in 1950. Worked in parishes in Ft. Worth, Irving, Denton, Prichard AL, Abiline and Dallas. Also assigned to Dunne Memorial Home for Boys. Died in 1996. Per news in 2005, McGill was accused in civil suits of the sexual abuse of minors. Settled. On diocese’s list 1/31/2019. Accused in a 2/2023 lawsuit filed by two men of sexually abusing them as children at Dunne Memorial Home for Boys in the 1960s-early 1970s. The suit was filed against the Dallas diocese and the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, who staffed the facility. Both said a Sr. Mary Bridgette would take each boy to a basement room, give them a cup of alcohol, removed their clothes and leave them alone in the dark before the abuse by McGill. One said Sr. Mary Bridgette would wake him up at night to say he did something wrong and deserved to be punished before leading him to the basement. The suit also names a Mother Ann Catherine.
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