NEWARK (NJ)
1010 WINS
Aug 18, 2005 4:25 pm US/Eastern
(1010 WINS) (NEWARK) The Episcopal Diocese has agreed to pay $80,000 to two female employees who claimed the diocese failed to address their complaints that they were repeatedly sexually harassed by a priest.
The diocese did not admit any wrongdoing, but agreed to create policies on discrimination and retaliation, as well as complaint procedures, under a settlement announced Thursday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The agreement resolves a lawsuit filed in March by the EEOC on behalf of Michelle Wilson and Maxine Gooden charging that the Rev. Dana Rose regularly made ``sexually explicit, insulting and derogatory'' comments to the women.
The suit also charged that Rose, who was a vicar of Trinity Church in Irvington at the time, would attempt to grab the women by their arms, waists or breasts.