Fr. Patrick Desmond McMahon
Assigned to eight parishes from 1960 until placed on medical leave in 1990. Placed on administrative leave in 11/2002 after two accusers came forward. Permanently removed from active ministry by the Vatican in 2004. In 1/2005 seven claims settled as part of $810K settlement. Another suit filed in 7/2008 claimed abuse in the 1960s-1970s. A woman said McMahon and another priest abused her father as a child and their actions deprived her of a relationship with her dad. McMahon was living in a CA assisted-living facility in 2008. Included on archdiocese’s list 1/15/2016 of clergy and religious with established, admitted or credible allegations against them of the sexual abuse of a minor. Laicized. Settlement 3/6/2021 with a plaintiff claiming abuse in the mid-1970s, while McMahon was assigned to a Port Townsend parish.
- Seattle Archdiocesan Case Review Board Report 06.01.04
- Seattle Times 08.22.04
- Seattle Times 01.22.05
- Associated Press 07.12.05
- Spokesman Review 07.12.05
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer 07.24.08
- Archdiocese of Seattle List 01.15.16
- Seattle PI 01.15.16
- The Stranger 01.15.16
- National Catholic Reporter 01.27.16
- Northwest Catholic 04.16.21
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