Fr. Robert A. Titone – Diocese of Brooklyn

| Apr 19, 2020 | Abuser Profiles, Catholic Church

Father Robert A. Titone  

Diocese of Brooklyn

Ordained: 1971

Died: 2001

Assigned as follows:

  • 1972-1976: St. Barbara’s (Brooklyn, NY)
  • 1977-1978: St. Joan of Arc (Jackson Heights, NY)
  • 1979-1981: St. Leo’s (Corona, NY)
  • 1982-1983: St. Francis of Assisi-St. Blaise (Queens, NY)  
  • 1984-1985: Holy Cross (Brooklyn, NY) 
  • 1987-1995: St. Anthony of Padua-St. Alphonsus (Brooklyn, NY)
  • 1996: Absent on Sick Leave 
  • 1997-2001: St. Gabriel (Queens, NY) 

Summary of Abuse Allegations against Father Robert A Titone:

According to media reports, in November 2017, a man alleged that Fr. Robert A Titone sexually abused him in the late 1980s, beginning when he was 11 years old, at St. Anthony-St. Alphonsus. He received a settlement. “He was the greatest thing since sliced bread,” the man said, “and then the sickness came out in him.”

In February 2019, his name appeared publicly on the Diocese of Brooklyn’s list of clergy credibly accused of sex abuse of minors.

Titone died in August 2001.

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