Charges Dropped Against Former Northeast Priest
Accuser died of drug overdose.
One month ago, former Northeast Philadelphia priest Robert Brennan, 75, was charged with raping an alter boy when he was eleven. Last week, the now-26-year-old accuser died of a drug overdose, leading D.A. Seth Williams to drop the charge. Brennan served as the pastor at Resurrection of Our Lord parish in Rhawnhurst. Brennan was also named in a 2005 grand jury report on sex abuse in the Philadelphia archdiocese. [NBC 10]
