NEW JERSEY
The Record
MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013
BY ABBOTT KOLOFF
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
A former Wyckoff assistant pastor, who had been allowed to continue working as a priest despite confessing to the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old child, was arrested Monday and charged with violating an agreement with law enforcement officials that barred him from working with children.
The Rev. Michael Fugee was arrested at a Newark parish on Monday and was charged with seven counts of violating a judicial order, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said in a statement.
Molinelli said that Fugee, a former associate pastor at St. Elizabeth parish in Wyckoff, allegedly heard confessions from children on at least seven occasions, including twice at a Rochelle Park parish where church authorities had allowed him to live in the rectory.
Fugee heard confessions in February and again in March at Sacred Heart Church in Rochelle Park, Molinelli said. Fugee left that parish earlier this year after The Record inquired about him living there. He also herd confession from minors at Our Lady of Visitation Church in Paramus in December, the prosecutor said.
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