Media Release – April 16, 2015

Road to Recovery
April 16, 2015

http://www.road-to-recovery.org/

Rev. Roy Alan Drake, SJ is a known sexual offender of minor children and has been accused once again of having sexually abused a minor teenager

In 2014, Rev. Roy Alan Drake SJ, was accused of sexually abusing a minor child at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine, when Rev. Roy Alan Drake SJ was a professor there and acted as a Jesuit priest

The Northeast Jesuits, formerly the New York Province of the Society of Jesus, who staff Fordham University where Roy Alan Drake worked, refuse to acknowledge and bear responsibility for the allegation of sexual abuse against Fr. Roy Alan Drake, SJ in Maine and give any assistance to the victim, settle and validate his claim, and help him heal

What

A press conference and leafleting alerting the media and general public that the Northeast Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) refuses to assist a sexual abuse victim of one of its

members, Rev. Roy Alan Drake, SJ.

When

Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Noon until 2:00 PM

Where

On the public sidewalks outside the motor vehicle entrance to Fordham University, Rose Hill, the Bronx, NY across the street from the Bronx Botanical Gardens on Southern Boulevard

Who

Hollywood screenwriter Neal E. Gumpel, a resident of Connecticut, who has alleged that he was sexually abused as a minor teenager by Fr. Roy Alan Drake, SJ; and members of Road to Recovery, Inc., a non- profit charity that assists victims of sexual abuse and their families.

Why

Neal E. Gumpel, whose mother and father are both graduates of Fordham University, was an unsuspecting high school minor teenager when his brother invited him to spend a weekend with him at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine. Rev. Roy Alan Drake, SJ was a Jesuit priest who was working at Maine Maritime Academy at the time as a professor and acting as a Jesuit priest. At all times during the period of the sexual abuse, Fr. Roy Alan Drake, SJ invited Neal E. Gumpel as a minor teenager to his residence on or near the Maine Maritime Academy campus, served him alcohol, and sexually abused him. When Neal E. Gumpel reported these allegations to the superiors of the Northeast Province of the Jesuit Fathers and Brothers, the Jesuit leaders refused to acknowledge and validate his allegations and told him they were not going to help him. Fr. Roy Alan Drake, SJ, who died in 2008, was a repeat sexual abuser of young teenagers. Neal E. Gumpel will demand of the Northeast Province Jesuits that they acknowledge and validate Mr. Gumpel’s allegations, compensate him for his injuries, and assist in his healing.

Contacts

Robert M. Hoatson, Ph.D., Road to Recovery, Inc. – 862-368-2800

Attorney Mitchell Garabedian, Boston, MA – 617-523-6250