Catholic Priest

Harold T. Cox

Ordained: 1944

Harold Cox was named as one of many priests accused of sexually abusing minors in a lawsuit filed in October 2003. The lawsuit specifically alleged that Father Cox, assigned to St. Gabriel Parish in New Lots in the late 1950s, sexually abused a minor boy. The lawsuit alleges that Cox abused the boy after confession on at least 30 occasions.  Cox died in 1971.

Father Cox's Assignments

PlacementCity/StateDate(s)
St. JosephRonkonkoma, NY
St. GabrielBrooklyn, NY
St. CamillusRockaway Beach, NY