NEW JERSEY/VIRGINIA
International Business Times
By Melanie Jones
January 13, 2012
Father Luke Travers, a Benedictine monk and former administrator at the Mary Mother of the Church Abbey in Virginia, is under investigation for sexual misconduct while he was headmaster at Delbarton, a Catholic boy’s school in New Jersey.
Delbarton School is an elite college preparatory academy in Morristown, N.J. Gov. Chris Christie’s son goes there and the academy is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious schools on the East Coast.
Rev. Traver has been replaced at the abbey and is currently under investigation by church authorities.
‘Because he loved me.’
The Benedictine monk had been serving as non-residential administrator at the Mary Mother of the Church Abbey since 2010 when a letter was sent to church officials alleging that Travers, 55, had sexually harassed at least two former students at Delbarton. …
Mark Serrano, a national advocate for sex abuse victims, was similarly furious with church officials at Delbarton and those higher up in the ACC, saying their handling of the allegations is suspicious at best and questioning why they didn’t inform the Va. abbey of the investigation into Travers that began in June.
“I wouldn’t trust the school’s characterization of the incidents as ‘minor’ until we know all the facts,” Serrano told NJ.com. “In the meantime, we must make sure Travers has no contact with children.”
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