WOODLAND PARK (NJ)
North Jersey Record
May 6, 2019
By Monsy Alvarado and Jean Rimbach
Attorneys at a Monday press conference released a list of names of more than 300 priests and others connected to the church, including nuns and deacons, who have been accused of sexual misconduct who have served in New Jersey.
At a press conference, held in Elizabeth, advocates and attorneys from law firm Jeff Anderson & Associate also announced that Edward Hanratty, a Ridgefield Park native, has filed a lawsuit against all of the New Jersey Catholic Bishops and the New Jersey Catholic Conference for “maintaining a public hazard by keeping secret the names of all clergy accused of sexual misconduct in New Jersey.”
“We release this report, the Anderson Report, and what it is is an identification all the clerics who have been publicly accused across the state of New Jersey,” said Jeff Anderson, the law firm’s founder. “We have also included the history, the assignment history of each of those clerics that have been publicly accused because we believe it’s something that needs to be done.
They are demanding that New Jersey Bishops release the identities, background information, and histories on all clergy accused of sexual misconduct with minors, which they say has largely been concealed.
The report, released Monday, contains the names of diocesan priests, religious order priests, deacons, nuns, and religious brothers and sisters accused of sexual misconduct and associated with the Catholic Dioceses in New Jersey.
Those listed worked at churches in the Archdiocese of Newark, the Diocese of Trenton, Camden, Paterson and Metuchen. The information is derived from publicly available sources, claims made by survivors to the diocese and religious orders responsible for the offenders, as well as legal settlements made as a result of claims for sexual abuse, according to the report
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