Fordham University Alumni Weekend

Road to Recovery
June 5, 2015

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AbuseTracker/road-to-recovery.org

MEDIA RELEASE

Hollywood screenwriter Neal E. Gumpel, who was sexually abused as a minor child by known Jesuit priest pedophile Roy Alan Drake, SJ, will be joined by his wife, Helen Gumpel, retired successful fashion model and actress, who thwarted a sexual attack in Bill Cosby’s dressing room on the set of “The Cosby Show,” at Alumni Weekend at Fordham University to draw attention to the lack of appropriate response by Fordham University, Fordham Prep School, and the Northeast Province of the Jesuit Fathers and Brothers to the sexual abuse allegations of Neal E. Gumpel.

Rev. Joseph Mc Shane, SJ, President of Fordham University, will give a talk during Alumni Weekend entitled, “Fordham: Living the Mission” but will probably not include the hypocrisy of the Jesuit Fathers and Brothers in not acknowledging the sexual abuse of a minor boy by Fr. Roy Alan Drake, SJ, and not helping him heal. Alumni will be called upon to remind Fr. Mc Shane and the Jesuits of their mission to validate and help heal those harmed by their own members, especially Neal E. Gumpel.

What

A press conference and leafleting alerting the media, alumni and supporters of Fordham University, Fordham Prep, the Northeast Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and the general public of the refusal of these institutions and organizations to help a clergy sexual abuse victim of one of its priests and teachers, Fr. Roy Alan Drake, SJ, heal by validating his claim of sexual abuse as a minor child.

When

Saturday, June 6, 2015 from 10:00 am until 11:30 am – President Rev. Joseph Mc Shane’s address to alumni begins at 11:00 am in Duane Library.

Where

On the public sidewalk outside the motor vehicle entrance to Fordham University, Bronx, New York, across from the New York Botanical Gardens on Southern Boulevard.

Who

Hollywood screenwriter Neal E. Gumpel, a resident of Connecticut and son of two Fordham University alumni (Jane and Dr. Roy); Helen Gumpel, wife of Neal E. Gumpel, former successful fashion model and actress who appeared in an episode of “The Cosby Show”; and members of Road to Recovery, Inc., a non-profit charity that assists victims of sexual abuse and their families.

Why

Neal E. Gumpel was an unsuspecting high school minor teenager when his brother invited him to spend a weekend at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine. Rev. Roy Alan Drake, SJ, was a Jesuit priest from Fordham Prep School and the greater Fordham Jesuit community who was working at the time at Maine Maritime Academy and invited Neal E. Gumpel to his residence on or near the campus, served him alcohol and sexually abused him. Demonstrators will call on Fordham University, Fordham Prep School, and the Northeast Province of the Society of Jesus to do the right thing by validating the claim of Neal E. Gumpel and helping Neal E. Gumpel heal.

Contacts

Robert M. Hoatson, Ph.D., Road to Recovery, Inc. (Fordham Alumnus, Ph.D. 1988) – 862-368-2800

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