NEW JERSEY
Asbury Park Press
Carol Gorga Williams, @APPCarol 4:11 p.m. EDT August 21, 2014
A priest with deep ties to to the Shore community was arrested today on a sexual abuse allegation filed by the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.
According to the Trenton diocese, Father Nilo S. Apura faces a charge involving a 16-year-old that is alleged to have taken place in Trenton.
Apura has served as pastor of St. Martha Parish in Point Pleasant since July of 2012, and formerly served in the parishes of St. Joachim, Trenton; St. Agnes, Atlantic Highlands; St. Maximilian Kolbe, Toms River; Our Lady of Good Counsel, Moorestown; St. Ann Parish, Keansburg, and St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral, Trenton.
Bishop David M. O’Connell has suspended Father Apura, effective immediately, pending the outcome of the investigation by law enforcement and recommendations from the Diocesan Review Board.
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