NEW JERSEY
Press of Atlantic City

Associated Press

MORRISTOWN — Being a child around the Delbarton School campus in the 1960s and ’70s with a father who taught there and later became an assistant headmaster was “total joy,” Bill Crane Jr. recalled. That was before he attended the school as a teen and, he says, a priest sexually abused him over a two-year period.

It was years before he came forward, and by that time his twin brother, Thomas, had already told their father that he, too, had been abused. Their allegations are contained in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in state Superior Court in Morristown, about 3 miles from the school, where current students include Gov. Chris Christie’s oldest son.

The suit names Delbarton as well as St. Mary’s Abbey, which runs the school. No individuals are named as defendants in the suit, but the complaint identifies the Rev….