NEW JERSEY
The Star-Ledger
By Mark Mueller/The Star-Ledger
on May 01, 2013
The New Jersey director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests today will request an investigation of Newark Archbishop John J. Myers by the National Review Board, an advisory group created by the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops in the wake of the clergy sex abuse crisis.
Mark Crawford, the longtime head of SNAP in New Jersey, said he is calling on the board to examine whether Myers violated the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People in his handling of the Rev. Michael Fugee, a priest who attended youth retreats and heard confessions from minors in defiance of a lifetime ban on such interactions.
American bishops adopted the landmark charter in Dallas in 2002. It created a zero-tolerance policy for abusers, stating that any priest credibly accused of sexual abuse will not return to full ministry.
Fugee, 52, confessed to groping a teenage boy in 2001. He later signed a binding agreement with the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office barring him from working with children in any capacity as long as he is a priest. An official with the archdiocese also signed the agreement.
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