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Delbarton school gets heat for suit against former Mendham resident’s lawyer
By PHIL GARBER, Managing Editor
MENDHAM – To Bill Crane, a lawsuit filed by St., Mary’s Abbey and the Delbarton School against his lawyer is one more tactic of intimidation in the ongoing battle by Crane and others to uncover victims who were sexually assaulted by priests at the school.
The former Mendham resident knows about the subject. He and his twin brother Tom, 46, filed a lawsuit in March alleging that they were sexually abused as youngsters by the Rev. Luke Travers, a former Delbarton headmaster, and the Rev. Justin Capato, a former Delbarton teacher.
Last month, Delbarton filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in Morristown claiming Crane’s lawyer, Gregory Gianforcaro of Phillipsburg, violated a confidentiality agreement by publicly disclosing terms of a 1988 settlement of a lawsuit filed by a teenager who was a victim of sexual misconduct by a monk at the school.
A terse statement from St. Mary’s Abbey was released.
“St. Mary’s Abbey will not have any comments regarding the legal case recently filed involving attorney Gregory Gianforcaro,” the statement said.
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