This is no big deal. This year the pastor of Holy Rosary Church had a priest living in the rectory who had been accused of molesting two young boys. The priest was eventually cleared at a closed door trial headed by other priests who are canon lawyers. What a surprise! I was told the priest was living there for three months and may have made a hasty exit when all the stuff came out about Michael Fugee. That's from around February to May 2013. The current pastor never made it known to the parishioners that the priest living in the church had been accused. There are probably young children and young boys attending the church. What a great guy!

Of course and then there's this:

THE CHILD-RAPE ASSEMBLY LINE
IN RITUAL BATHHOUSES OF THE JEWISH ORTHODOXY, CHILDREN ARE SYSTEMATICALLY ABUSED

http://www.vice.com/read/the-child-ra ... embly-line-0000141-v20n11

Convicted sex offender Jersey City priest headed for trial on similar charges in Missouri: report

By Ron Zeitlinger/The Jersey Journal
November 26, 2013 at 11:34 AM

A former St. Aloysius priest who sexually molested a 17-year-old boy in the early 1980s appears headed for trial in Missouri on similar charges, according to a published report.

Gerald "Gerry" Howard, whose name was Carmine Sita when he was a priest at St. Aloysius, is seeking a non-jury trial that could begin after the start of the new year, connectmidmissouri.com reported.

Howard was a priest in the Boonville, Mo. parish of Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church between 1984 and 1987 when authorities say he sexually assaulted three minors.

He is charged with three counts of forcible sodomy, three counts of attempted forcible sodomy and two counts of kidnapping.

In 1982 Sita pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a minor in Jersey City. In January 1983, Sita was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to undergo treatment. After getting treatment in New Mexico, Sita legally changed his name and joined Ss. Peter and Paul in Boonville.

A Virginia man who accused Howard of abuse while the priest was in Boonville received a $600,000 settlement in 2009 from church officials in Jefferson City and Newark, New Jersey.

In 2010, Howard was arrested in Bloomfield and he was returned to Missouri, where he has been jailed ever since.


http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... s_in_missouri_report.html

MORE ACCUSE PRIEST
4 others hurt, says victim whose case drew $600G

Tuesday, August 25, 2009
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

NEWARK - News of a settlement between a man sexually abused by a former Jersey City priest has prompted four more alleged victims to come forward, including two from Jersey City, according to David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.

Word of the new allegations came yesterday when the man molested in Missouri by the Rev. Carmine Sita, now known as the Rev. Gerald "Gerry" Howard, spoke out for the first time about being abused.
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Dr. Mark McAllister has reached a $600,000 settlement with Catholic dioceses in Newark and in Missouri, as well as a New Mexico counseling center where the former St. Aloysius Parish priest was sent after he was found to be molesting a teen in Jersey City in the early 1980s.

At a news conference outside Sacred Heart Cathedral in Newark yesterday morning, which was followed later in the day by a news conference outside St. Aloysius, McAllister said he once met that 17-year-old victim.

"I met him in person and my impression of (name omitted) was that he was tragically addicted to illegal drugs," McAllister said. "He looked like he was in a downward spiral."

McAllister, who is now working with SNAP, said more victims of Sita have come forward as a result of publicity about his settlement, and Clohessy confirmed that two said they were abused in Jersey City and the other two in Missouri.

No legal actions have been taken and while the men have reached out to SNAP, they haven't spoken publicly.

"When they're ready to come forward, they will have to do it in their own time," said Mark Crawford, state director for SNAP. "If they're willing to come forward and speak, they will when they're ready."

Archdiocese of Newark spokesman James Goodness said the church hasn't been notified of new cases concerning Sita.

"Certainly if there are other allegations we want to hear from them and they should call our Victims' Assistance coordinator and we will report that information immediately to the Hudson County prosecutor," Goodness said.

Wow...that is quite courageous!

SNAP papers Downtown Jersey City neighborhood with fliers accusing priest of past sex abuse

by Carly Baldwin/The Jersey Journal
Saturday November 22, 2008


Jersey City resident B. Wilson, center, reacts to news from Hoatson, right, and Joelle Casteix, who told Wilson that an accused child predator lives in her neighborhood.

Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests members the Rev. Robert M. Hoatson and Joelle Casteix hand out fliers to inform the Downtown Jersey City community that the Rev. Paul Daleo, who has been accused in lawsuits of sex abuse, lives in their neighborhood.

"Hi, I just want to let you know there's a child molester living in your neighborhood."

That's what Joelle Casteix and the Rev. Robert Hoatson told people on the streets of Downtown Jersey City this afternoon.

Casteix and Hoatson are members of SNAP (Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests), and they spent today alerting residents about the Rev. Paul Daleo, a Jersey City resident and Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing four boys more than 20 years ago.

"By exposing him, we are able to do what nobody did for us. We are able to chip away at the isolation," Casteix said .

Casteix, who said she herself is a victim of sexual abuse by a former teacher at her Catholic high school, travels the country alerting people about alleged sexual abuse by priests and other religious figures.

"We don't want what happened to us to happen to another child. It's a warning the community and putting the church on notice," she said.
Byron Smith/the Jersey JournalOmar Martinez reacts to the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests flier given out by the Rev. Robert Hoatson and Joelle Casteix of SNAP.

Casteix and Hoatson covered the leafy blocks around Daleo's Monmouth Street home with fliers, alerting neighbors to the claims against the priest. They knocked on doors, stopped people walking their dogs and left the bright orange fliers on cars, featuring a black and white photograph of Daleo. Many were shocked to learn of the allegations; one woman said she knew Daleo.

Two men, now in their 30s, filed civil lawsuits in Delaware this year, accusing Daleo of sexual abuse, the SNAP members said. Two other men have also come forward accusing Daleo of abuse.

The men all say Daleo abused them while they were elementary school and high school students at St. Edmond's Academy, a private Catholic all-boy's school outside Wilmington where Daleo worked as a guidance counselor, vice principal and chaplain.

A message left at the school this afternoon was not immediately returned.

The alleged abuse took place in the mid-1980s and the statute of limitations to press criminal charges has since expired. But a recent state law in Delaware gave victims two years, from July 2007 to July 2009, to file civil lawsuits alleging past sexual assaults.

"The law recognizes that these people were abused as children and now as adults they have the opportunity to get justice," said Hoatson, a West Orange resident and Catholic priest who said he has been prohibited from preaching since he announced he was abused.

The lawsuits seek unspecified financial damages, dismissal of Daleo from the church and full disclosure by the Catholic church of the alleged abuse. Casteix and Hoatson accuse the Catholic church of protecting Daleo.

"He thinks he can live here in hiding; they think they can put him anywhere," Hoatson said.

Daleo has since left St. Edmond's.

According to Casteix, Daleo is a member of the Capuchin Franciscan Friars. A message left with a chapter of the friars was not immediately returned.

Daleo attends Holy Rosary Church at Sixth and Monmouth streets almost daily for Mass, Casteix said, after she papered the area around the church with the fliers.

A priest at the Holy Rosary who refused to identify himself said Daleo's name did not sound familiar.

Casteix said neighbors generally respond favorably to fliers she gives out.

"Residents are often grateful we told them,'' she said. "But when you go in front of a church and distribute fliers that says their priest did this, it often shatters people's milestones and their value systems -- this is how they've raised their children, this is the man who married them. It's very painful."

According to Casteix and Hoatson, Daleo is not preaching anywhere currently but is working privately, performing baptisms, funeral rites and weddings.

The Jersey Journal knocked on Daleo's door but was told by a neighbor that he wasn't home.