NEW YORK
New York Post
By IKIMULISA LIVINGSTON and STEFANIE COHEN
October 31, 2005 -- Administrators at a private Manhattan school admitted yesterday they never checked with church officials before hiring a former priest who allegedly molested a student in Central Park last week.
Episcopal authorities said the ex-priest, Bruce Jacques, had been defrocked for allegedly propositioning a 13-year-old boy a decade ago.
The Robert Louis Stevenson School hired Jacques as a fund-raiser in 2003.
On Oct. 20, a 13-year-old Stevenson student accused Jacques of molesting him in the Park.
"Apparently, the school didn't do its due diligence. They didn't call the diocese," said Gail Keeney-Mulligan, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in New Milford, Conn., where the former priest once worked.