NEW JERSEY
The Record
BY JEFF GREEN
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
The Rev. Michael Fugee, the Catholic priest who allegedly groped a Wyckoff boy a decade ago and who has been at the heart of a raging controversy that has engulfed the Newark Archdiocese, has resigned from the ministry, the archdiocese said Thursday.
Fugee, 52, wrote a letter to Archbishop John J. Myers on Thursday afternoon announcing his resignation from his two positions within the archdiocese. Jim Goodness, Myers’ spokesman, said the archbishop accepted the resignation.
“He is no longer active as a priest, that’s effective today,” Goodness said of Fugee.
Fugee, whose 2003 conviction on a charge of aggravated criminal sexual contact was overturned by an appeals court, was recently revealed to have attended several youth group retreats in apparent violation of an pre-trial agreement with prosecutors barring his work with children.
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