Fr. Denis P. Downey
Between 2005 and 2007 three individuals reported to the Diocese that they had been molested by Downey at Our Lady of Mercy in Merrimack in the 1950s and 1960s, between the ages of 9 and 16. Downey retired in 6/1968 and died 11/24/1992.
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