RACINE (WI)
The Journal Times
LINDSAY FIORI lindsay.fiori@journaltimes.com | Posted: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
RACINE — A St. Catherine’s High School teacher retired this month after abuse allegations were raised regarding a previous school, according to St. Catherine’s officials.
Gary Craanen, a religion teacher at St. Catherine’s for more than 30 years, retired in January after the author of an upcoming book about sexual abuse in the Catholic Diocese of Trenton, N.J., notified St. Catherine’s officials of allegations involving Craanen, according to a Jan. 13 letter to the school community from St. Catherine’s President Christopher Olley.
The book alleges Craanen solicited two teenage boys for sexual services and performed a sexual act in front of one of them during the late 1970s while he was vice principal and disciplinarian at the Divine Word Seminary high school in Bordentown, N.J, according to Bruce Novozinsky, author of the book, which is scheduled for self-publication through Amazon in May.
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