NEW JERSEY
The Star-Ledger
By Kevin Manahan/The Star-Ledger
MORRISTOWN — The latest in a string of accusations of sexual abuse at the Delbarton School involve a monk, the Rev. Benedict Worry, who has been serving as the pastor of St. Elizabeth of Hungary in Linden and the chaplain for the Linden Police Department.
At a press conference on the Morris County courthouse lawn Tuesday, two miles from the private school, Delbarton alumnus Steve Badt and an unnamed former student joined two other alleged abuse victims in a civil lawsuit originally filed in March against the school and St. Mary’s Abbey, which runs the school.
The unnamed accuser, listed as “John Doe” on the amended Superior Court complaint, didn’t attend the press conference. His attorney Greg Gianforcaro read a one-page statement.
Gianforcaro said his client — in his 40’s and living out of state — was abused by Worry as a student in the mid-1980s, and he alleges high-ranking monks, including Abbot Giles Hayes, who presides over the school, knew about it.
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