NEW JERSEY
The Record

[Bishop Myers deposition via BishopAccountability.org]

TUESDAY AUGUST 13, 2013
BY JEFF GREEN
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

The parents of a man who alleges that he was sexually abused by a priest after John J. Myers, now archbishop of Newark, allowed the cleric to continue working in an Illinois diocese years ago talked about their son’s hardships outside the Basilica Cathedral of the Sacred Heart Tuesday afternoon.

Joanne and David Ward, who now live in Michigan, said during a press conference announcing a $1.35 million settlement of their son Andrew’s lawsuit against Myers and the Diocese of Peoria that he is still feeling the effects of the abuse.

“The church has taken my faith; it has destroyed my family,” Joanne Ward said.

Myers said he did not know about a sexual abuse complaint against a priest in his former diocese in Illinois…