NEW JERSEY
The Star-Ledger
By Mark Mueller/The Star-Ledger
on May 20, 2013 at 8:12 PM, updated May 20, 2013 at 8:26 PM
NEWARK — A Roman Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Newark was criminally charged today with violating a court-sanctioned agreement that bars him from working with children for life.
The Rev. Michael Fugee, whose attendance at youth retreats and other events involving minors was disclosed in a series of Star-Ledger stories in recent weeks, was arrested by members of the special victims unit of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office at St. Antoninus Parish in Newark, a statement from the prosecutor’s office said.
Fugee, 52, was charged with seven counts of contempt of a judicial order, a fourth-degree crime that carries a maximum prison term of 18 months.
The Bergen County investigators, who launched an investigation after the newspaper alerted them to Fugee’s interactions with kids, found the priest heard confessions from minors at youth retreats along Lake Hopatcong in April 2010 and at the Kateri Environmental Center in Marlboro in September 2010 and again in September 2012.
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