NEW JERSEY
The Record
JUNE 21, 2014
BY AARON MORRISON
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
WOODCLIFF LAKE – The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and the Archdiocese of Newark united Saturday for a daylong series of child-safety workshops, presented to adults who work with children within and outside of the parish.
More than 100 church-affiliated leaders, parents involved with scouting and coaches were registered for the programs — held in the recreation room of Our Lady of the Mother Church — on child sex abuse prevention, Internet safety and drug-abuse prevention.
Karen Clark, the archdiocese’s child-safety director, said the partnership with County Prosecutor John Molinelli, who’s a member of the parish, proves each other’s commitment to keeping the area’s children safe.
Last year, Molinelli had criticized the archdiocese over its follow-up monitoring of Michael Fugee, a now defrocked priest who had been accused of groping boys. But Molinelli and an archdiocese spokesman said last week that that the workshop partnership had nothing to do with the Fugee matter.
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