NEW JERSEY
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
May 6, 2019
By Kelly Heyboer and Sophie Nieto-Munoz
More than 300 New Jersey priests, nuns, monks and other clergy accused of sexual misconduct — including many not included in the Catholic Church’s official list — were named in a report released Monday by lawyers representing an alleged victim suing the state’s dioceses.
The report by a Minnesota-based law firm is related to a lawsuit filed by Edward Hanratty, a sexual abuse victim from New Jersey that says New Jersey’s five Catholic dioceses created a “public hazard” by not naming all clergy members accused of sexually abusing children.
The 311 names in the report come from lawsuits, legal settlements, news reports and other public accounts of alleged abuse, the attorneys said.
In February, the Archdiocese of Newark and the state’s four other dioceses — Camden, Metuchen, Trenton and Paterson — released the names of 188 priests and deacons “credibly accused” of sexual abuse of children.
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