NEW JERSEY
The Star-Ledger
By Ben Horowitz/The Star-Ledger
on June 05, 2014
MORRISTOWN — William P. Wolfe — who was sexually abused by a priest at the Delbarton School when he was a 14-year-old student there — had waited 30 years to tell his story.
Today the Morris Township prep school settled a lawsuit filed by the 44-year-old Wolfe, and released him from a confidentiality agreement he signed in 1988.
“I’m exceedingly happy,” Wolfe said. “I feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders.”
The agreement, announced in Superior Court in Morristown, means Wolfe, who filed the suit as “John Doe,” can use his own name and speak about the abuse at the hands of the Rev. Timothy Brennan. The cleric pleaded guilty to criminal sexual contact in 1987.
The agreement still bars Wolfe from discussing the amount of the settlement, and a lawsuit filed by Delbarton against his lawyer is remains unresolved. The school sued the lawyer, Gregory Gianforcaro, for violating the confidentiality agreement in 2012, after he said publicly the settlement was in the seven figures.
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