NEW JERSEY
The Record
TUESDAY MAY 21, 2013
BY KIBRET MARKOS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
A former Wyckoff associate pastor said nothing during his first appearance in Bergen County Superior Court Tuesday morning, a day after his arrest for disobeying a judicial order that bars him from working with children.
The Rev. Michael Fugee, a former Wyckoff associate pastor who was allowed to continue working as a priest despite confessing to groping a 13-year-old boy, was arrested Monday. He had purposely disobeyed the judicial order that prohibited him from having contact with children, a prosecutor said during the hearing. Fugee had heard confessions from minors and attended a youth retreat on two occasions, the prosecutor said.
Fugee is charged with seven counts of violating the order.
Bail was set at $25,000 and Fugee was remanded to the Bergen County Jail.
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