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Posted by Ann Piccirillo (Editor), July 21, 2013
A priest removed from the ministry in 2004, after evidence supported allegations that he molested a teenaged boy over a three-year period during the 1970’s, was living in the rectory of St. Joseph’s Church in Oradell, according to a report published by the Star Ledger Sunday.
According to the report, Robert Chabak, 66, who had been living in his mother’s Normandy beach house since 2004, was given permission to move into St. Joseph’s rectory by the Newark Archidiocese and Rev. Thomas Iwanowski, Pastor of St. Joseph’s, after the beach house was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.
Jim Goodness, a spokesman for Archbishop John. J. Myers, told the Star Ledger, the archdiocese allowed Chabak to move into St. Joseph’s rectory “out of a sense of compassion.”
However, the report states that no one had informed the parishioners of St. Joseph’s about this arrangement, therefore, “knowingly putting the children at risk.”
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