The New Jersey Clergy Abuse Task Force created under Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced on Monday its first conviction of a Roman Catholic priest. The charges were of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in the early 1990s.
The defendant, the Rev. Thomas P. Ganley, 63, of Phillipsburg, pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual assault before Superior Court Judge Diane Pincus in Middlesex County, according to a release. Ganley admitted that he engaged in sexual acts with the victim when she was 16 or 17 years old, when he had supervisory authority over her as a priest in charge of the youth ministry program at St. Cecelia Church in Woodbridge.
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