NEW JERSEY
North Jersey Record
March 7, 2019
An attorney representing victims of clergy abuse says he plans to file a “significant childhood sexual abuse” lawsuit Friday against the Archdiocese of Newark and a Union County Catholic parish.
The suit will allege that the Rev. Kevin Gugliotta sexually abused a child while Gugliotta served as the head of youth ministry at St. Bartholomew the Apostle parish in Scotch Plains, a position he retained after the Archdiocese was told that Gugliotta was a predator, according to attorney Greg Gianforcaro.
Gugliotta, who was named on a list of credibly accused priests released by the Newark Archdiocese in February, had been removed from ministry after being charged with possession of child pornography at his vacation home in Pennsylvania. Gugliotta told probation officers that he collected the pornography to get “revenge” on God for his poker losses, according to records.
Even before the child pornography case, Gugliotta had once stepped down from ministry after he was accused of sexually abusing a minor. The accusation, lodged in 2003, involved abuse that was alleged to have occurred in the 1980s, before Gugliotta was ordained as a priest.
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