Three decades later, victim of sex abuse by priest can speak

NEW JERSEY
Morris News Bee

Posted: Tuesday, June 10, 2014

By PHIL GARBER

It took 30 years but William P. Wolfe can finally speak openly about the time he was sexually abused by a priest at the Delbarton School.

“I feel like I’m walking on air,” Wolfe, 44, said on Friday after the school agreed to lift a gag order on Wolfe stemming from a 1988 settlement with the school.

“I’m absolutely thrilled to have the ability not to live secretly about what happened to me,” said Wolfe, an information technology specialist who is married with no children and lives in Boulder, Color. “Nobody who has gone through abuse should be prevented from talking about it.”

The agreement was announced on Friday in Superior Court in Morristown. Wolfe, who was raised in Morristown, spoke about his reactions in the office of his lawyer, Gregory Gianforcaro of Phillipsburg.

Wolfe was…