Fr. John J. Calnan

Ordained: 1964
Status: Guilty plea

Diocese: Diocese of Savannah GA

Priest of the Cork and Ross, Ireland, ordained in 1964. Assigned 1964-1966 to St. Joseph Parish in Augusta, GA. Appears to have left the U.S. in or around 1966. Returned to Ireland, where he spent the remainder of his priesthood. Pleaded guilty in 2012 at the Central Criminal Court to attempted rape and three counts of indecent assault of a girl and one count of indecent assault of a boy; sentenced to 8 years in prison with 3 years suspended. Pleaded guilty in 2/2015 at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to one count of indecent assault of a young girl. Pleaded guilty in 4/2015 to sexually assaulting a girl age 7 in West Cork in 1989, digitally penetrating her while he heard her first confession; sentenced to three years in jail, with the final year suspended. Pleaded guilty in 3/2018 to digitally penetrating a little girl in the late 1980s while hearing her first confession; received a suspended sentence because of his age. Received a suspended sentence in 4/2018 of 18 months for digitally penetrating three girls, 6 to 12 years of age, in 1974-1978, two of them during first confession.


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