Father Michael O’Farrell
Diocese of Brooklyn
Ordained: 1943
Died: 2000
Assigned as follows:
- 1945-1956: St. Agnes (Rockville Centre, NY) (Diocese of Brooklyn)
- 1957-1966: St. Agnes (Rockville Centre, NY) (Diocese of Rockville Centre)
- 1967-1974: St. Anne’s (Brentwood, NY) (Diocese of Rockville Centre)
- 1975-1978: St. Lawrence the Martyr Church (Sayville, NY) (Diocese of Rockville Centre)
- 1990-1991: St. Philip Neri Church (Northport, NY) (Diocese of Rockville Centre)
- 1992-2000: Retired; St. Philip Neri Church (Northport, NY) (Diocese of Rockville Centre)
Summary of Abuse Allegations against Father Michael O’Farrell:
Fr. Michael O’Farrell was ordained a priest in 1943. According to media reports, in 2019, O’Farrell was accused in a civil lawsuit of repeatedly abusing an 8-year-old male student at St. Anne’s in Brentwood, New York, for two years from 1967 to 1969. O’Farrell retired in 1992 and died in 2000.
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