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New York, NY — The Archdiocese of New York has announced the removal of Fr. Richard Gorman from ministry after an investigation was launched into allegations he sexually abused minors 30 years ago, according to the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of New York.
Gorman, director of prison chaplains for the archdiocese and also the longtime chairman of a Bronx community board, was accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old male victim. The man’s attorney, Mike Reck of Jeff Anderson & Associates, said his client came forward to church and law-enforcement officials around mid-2015, and that the allegations were deemed credible.
“The investigation then unearthed additional survivors and witnesses,” Reck said.
Reck said at least one other person from St. Barnabas has come forward alleging abuse.
Reck’s client claims Gorman abused him decades ago, when Gorman was a leader at St. Barnabas Church in the Bronx. Reck said it was there that Gorman “used that position of power to access a child, who was a parishioner. He transported him to another church-owned facility and that’s where that incident of abuse occurred.”
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