NEW JERSEY
CBS New York

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NEWARK (CBSNewYork) — An advocacy group for church sex-abuse victims is calling for John Myers to be removed as Newark’s archbishop after his former diocese settled a case that happened on his watch, 1010 WINS’ Steve Sandberg reported.

The Catholic Diocese of Peoria in Illinois has agreed to pay $1.35 million to Andrew Ward, a former altar boy who says he was molested in the mid-1990s, when he was 8 years old, by Monsignor Thomas Maloney, who died in 2009. Ward also accused Myers of failing to take appropriate action to prevent the alleged abuse.

A year earlier, a woman told the diocese that Maloney sexually abused her as a child, but he was allowed to remain in the ministry, and Myers did not notify…