NEW JERSEY
NJ.com
BY JUSTIN ZAREMBA jzaremba@njadvancemedia.com,
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
LINDEN — A New Jersey man who attended the now-shuttered St. Elizabeth of Hungary School more than four decades ago has anonymously stepped forward and accused a Benedictine monk of abusing him on more than 100 occasions as a teenager.
In a lawsuit filed Friday morning, a plaintiff identified as John Doe III alleges he was sexually abused on numerous occasions by the Rev. Timothy Brennan between 1968 and 1971 while a student at St. Elizabeth’s School.
Doe also accused St. Elizabeth’s School, the Archdiocese of Newark and the Order of Saint Benedict, which operates St. Mary’s Abbey and Delbarton School, of misconduct, negligence, fraudulent concealment and other charges over their alleged failure to protect him from Brennan’s abuse. He is seeking compensatory and punitive damages.
Jim Goodness, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Newark, referred comment on Brennan to the Order of Saint Benedict. Anthony Cicatiello, a spokesman for St. Mary’s Abbey, the Benedictine monastic community in Morristown which operates the Delbarton School, declined comment due to active litigation involving Brennan.
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