NEW JERSEY
Morris News Bee
Posted: Tuesday, June 10, 2014
By PHIL GARBER
It took 30 years but William P. Wolfe can finally speak openly about the time he was sexually abused by a priest at the Delbarton School.
“I feel like I’m walking on air,” Wolfe, 44, said on Friday after the school agreed to lift a gag order on Wolfe stemming from a 1988 settlement with the school.
“I’m absolutely thrilled to have the ability not to live secretly about what happened to me,” said Wolfe, an information technology specialist who is married with no children and lives in Boulder, Color. “Nobody who has gone through abuse should be prevented from talking about it.”
The agreement was announced on Friday in Superior Court in Morristown. Wolfe, who was raised in Morristown, spoke about his reactions in the office of his lawyer, Gregory Gianforcaro of Phillipsburg.
Wolfe was 14 when he was sexually abused by the Rev. Timothy Brennan, who pleaded guilty in 1987 to criminal sexual contact. Brennan was given a six month sentence at a facility for clergy sex offenders.
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