NEW JERSEY/ILLINOIS
The Star-Ledger

[Read Archbishop Myers deposition here.]

By Mark Mueller/The Star-Ledger
on August 13, 2013 at 2:47 PM

The mother of a boy allegedly abused by a priest in the Diocese of Peoria called today for Newark Archbishop John J. Myers to be jailed, saying he could have prevented the molestation because he knew of a previous allegation when he served as bishop there.

Joanne Ward, speaking at a press conference outside of the Archdiocesan Center in Newark, said Myers knew in 1994 that Msgr. Thomas Maloney allegedly molested a girl but took no action against Maloney because the two were friends.

A year later, Ward said, Maloney allegedly abused Ward’s son, Andrew Ward, then 8, at a church in Normal, Ill.

“Bishop Myers knew Monsignor Maloney was molesting children and allowed him to go into my son’s school, and because of that, my family…