FORDHAM PREP SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT DEMONSTRATION

Road to Recovery
May 24, 2016

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

Neal E. Gumpel is a childhood clergy sexual abuse victim of Fr. Roy Alan Drake, SJ, a deceased Jesuit priest who taught at Fordham Prep in the Bronx, New York, and Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, Maine

At Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine, Fr. Roy Alan Drake presented himself as a Jesuit priest while teaching science courses there. He sexually abused Neal E. Gumpel, a Port Chester, New York, a minor child, who was visiting his brother, a student at Maine Maritime Academy at that time

The Northeast Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) which supervises Jesuit priests at Fordham Prep School and Maine Maritime Academy where Fr. Roy Alan Drake, SJ, was teaching at the time that he sexually abused Neal E. Gumpel, has acknowledged that Neal E. Gumpel was sexually abused by Fr. Roy Alan Drake, SJ, in Maine but, refuse to bear responsibility for Fr. Roy Alan Drake’s actions, will not settle and validate Neal Gumpel’s claim, and help Neal Gumpel heal

What A demonstration and leafleting alerting the Fordham Prep community, the general public, and the media that the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and Fordham Prep School refuse to assist a clergy sexual abuse victim of one its priests, Fr. Roy Alan Drake, SJ, a deceased Fordham Prep School teacher

When Wednesday afternoon, May 25, 2016 from 2:30 PM until 4:30 PM, at the commencement exercises of Fordham Prep School at the Rose Hill Gymnasium on the Fordham University campus

Where On the public median outside the main gates of Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus, Bronx, NY, near 400 Southern Boulevard (across from the New York Botanical Garden entrance)

Who Advocates and supporters of Neal E. Gumpel, including Robert M. Hoatson, Ph.D., co-founder and President of Road to Recovery, Inc., a non-profit charity based in New Jersey that assists victims of sexual abuse and their families

Why Neal E. Gumpel is a childhood sexual abuse victim of deceased Jesuit priest, Fr. Roy Alan Drake, SJ at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine, where Fr. Roy Alan Drake, SJ, was teaching and presenting himself as a priest at all times. Fordham Prep School and the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), who have found Neal E. Gumpel’s story of childhood sexual abuse credible, refuse to validate and settle his claim and help him heal. Demonstrators will distribute copies of a Portland Press Herald article about the sexual abuse allegations of Neal E. Gumpel and demand that Fordham Prep School and the Society of Jesus help Neal E. Gumpel heal by settling his claim responsibly, fairly, and justly.

Contacts Robert M. Hoatson, Ph.D., Road to Recovery, Inc. – 862-368-2800 – roberthoatson@gmail.com Attorney Mitchell Garabedian, Boston, MA – 617-523-6250