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Summary of Case: Edmund Netter was a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, ordained in 1951. He assisted in Haverstraw, Yonkers and Manhattan parishes through the 1950s, with the exception of two years as an Army chaplain. In 1960 he was assigned to a Bronx parish, transferring in 1963 to Garnersville. There is an unexplained gap in his career trajectory 1967-1968. Netter was named pastor in of a Nanuet parish in 1968, a role he held for eighteen years. He served during 1986-1987 on the “Parish Mission Team” in Suffern, achieving ‘monsignor’ status the same year. For the following eleven years Netter lead a parish in Nyack. He died in April 1998.
Netter was accused in a 2004 lawsuit of having sexually abused a girl from approximately 1973 to 1979, when the girl was nine to sixteen years-old. The abuse was said to have taken place weekly or bi-weekly in the rectory of St. Anthony’s in Nanuet, and at a house during vacations with the girl’s family when all but the two of them were at the beach.
Born: November 4, 1925
Ordained: 1951
Died: April 11, 1998
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