NEW JERSEY
NorthJersey.com
Sunday April 28, 2013
Associated Press
NEWARK — Investigators are questioning whether a New Jersey priest once accused of child molestation as a former assistant pastor in Wyckoff violated an agreement that called for him to never again work with children.
The Star-Ledger of Newark reports the Rev. Michael Fugee has had an unofficial association with a Monmouth County church for several years. Parishioners say he has attended youth retreats and heard confessions from minors behind closed doors.
Newark Archdiocese spokesman Jim Goodness said Fugee was unavailable for comment.
But Goodness says the archdiocese believes Fugee can work with minors if he’s supervised by priests or lay ministers aware of his past and the agreement’s conditions.
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