Sexual abuse allegation sidelines Short Hills pastor

NJ Today
October 06, 2014

http://njtoday.net/2014/10/06/sexual-abuse-allegation-sidelines-short-hills-pastor/

Monsignor George Trabold has stepped down from St. Rose of Lima in Millburn, where he has been pastor for the past 16 years, while the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark investigates an allegation of child sexual abuse in a Bergenfield parish 40 years ago.

A spokesperson for the archdiocese, Jim Goodness, said the report was forwarded to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and is being examined by an archdiocesan review board but he declined to provide details about the complaint, except that it was received “recently” and involved alleged abuse that happened “many years ago.”

Goodness said a review board will make a recommendation to Archbishop John J. Myers about whether Trabold should be permanently removed from ministry after it determines the credibility of the allegation.

Reverend Thomas Nydegger, the archdiocese’s vicar general and second-in-command to Myers, read a statement about the allegation during Sunday services.

Trabold was born on August 11, 1947 in Newark, and he was ordained in 1973.