NEW JERSEY/CONNECTICUT
New Jersey Herald
Updated: Nov 30, 2013
By JESSICA MASULLI REYES
jmasulli@njherald.com
STANHOPE — A Stanhope man, who was studying in a Connecticut seminary, claims he was sexually assaulted and “preyed upon” by his spiritual advisor and then stonewalled by the Diocese of Paterson when he tried to continue a path to priesthood.
In a civil lawsuit against the Diocese of Paterson, Joshua Cascio, 28, is alleging that his advisor, Father Addison (Tad) Hallock, at Holy Apostles College & Seminary in Cromwell, Conn., sexually assaulted him the day after Thanksgiving 2011.
The 10-count suit, filed last week in state Superior Court in Newton, details the alleged assault, as well as allegations that several top officials in the Diocese of Paterson and at the Holy Apostles College & Seminary are not allowing Cascio to return to the seminary. The lawsuit names Bishop Arthur Serratelli, who oversees the Catholic diocese covering Morris, Sussex and Passaic counties.
“Obviously, this has been his motivation throughout this whole thing, to become a priest, but the process is being denied to him,” Cascio’s Parsippany-based attorney, John O’Reilly, said.
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