NEW YORK (NY)
New York Daily News
October 31, 2018
By John Annese
Bishop John Jenik is accused of sexually abusing a minor in the 1980s. (Simone Weichselbaum)
A Bronx bishop — known as a tireless crusader against drug dealers who’d walk the streets in a bulletproof vest — has stepped down from his post after a “credible and substantiated” allegation of his sexual abuse of a child, the Archdiocese of New York announced Wednesday.
Bishop John Jenik, the longtime pastor of Our Lady of Refuge, has “stepped aside from public ministry and has moved out of his parish,” Timothy Cardinal Dolan wrote in a letter posted on the Archdiocese website.
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