LONG ISLAND (NY)
Newday
February 19, 2019
By Chau Lam and Craig Schneider
A lawyer representing two women who allege they were sexually abused as girls by the late Bishop John R. McGann and others in the Rockville Centre diocese is expected to make their stories public Tuesday.
The news conference is scheduled for Tuesday morning in Rockville Centre, according to a news release issued by a nonprofit group that aids victims of clergy sexual abuse. The women are not scheduled to appear, according to the co-founder of the New Jersey-based group, Road to Recovery.
A spokesman for the diocese did not have an immediate comment on Tuesday morning.
One woman claims to have been sexually abused by McGann, then monsignor and auxiliary bishop, Msgr. Edward L. Melton and the Rev. Robert L. Brown while they were assigned to St. Agnes parish in Rockville Centre, according to the news release. All the men are deceased.
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