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Ex-Morris County Priest, Admitted Child Sex Abuser Dies In Nursing Home Ex-Morris County Priest, Admitted Child Sex Abuser Dies In Nursing Home
Ex-Morris County Priest, Admitted Child Sex Abuser Dies In Nursing Home Former Morris County priest James T. Hanley, who admitted to abusing at least a dozen children in Pompton Plains and Mendham throughout a 14-year period, died in a nursing home last week. Hanley, 83, previously served a decade as a pastor at St. Joseph’s Church in Mendham before he was defrocked in 2003, Paterson Diocese attorney Kenneth Mullaney said. The Diocese of Paterson then gave out nearly $5 million in settlements to 21 of Hanley’s accusers in 2004, reports say. Mullaney did not say which nursing home Hanley died at, or whether he died of COVID-19 -- complications like many other N…

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