James Williams, Ex-chaminade President, Investigated for Sex Abuse

By Bart Jones
Newsday
May 14, 2016

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/former-chaminade-president-investigated-for-sexual-abuse-of-minor-1.11799041

Father James Williams, a former longtime president of Chaminade High School, has been suspended as a priest after allegations of sexual abuse of a student were found "credible," his order, the Marianists, said Friday, May 13, 2016. Father Williams gives communion on Nov. 7, 2001 at the high school. (Credit: Newsday / Jim Peppler)

The Marianist order has suspended a former longtime president of Chaminade High School from functioning as a priest after allegations of sexual abuse involving a former student were found to be “credible,” the order said.

The Rev. James Williams, who resigned in 2011 after 12 years as as president of the prestigious all-boys Catholic institution in Mineola , has denied the allegations, but...

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