NEW JERSEY
NJ.com
By Mark Mueller | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on October 27, 2014
The Diocese of Trenton has settled a fourth sex abuse claim against a former director of the diocese’s youth group, paying $180,000 to a Florida man who says the priest molested him for three years in the 1980s.
John Tominus, who grew up in Keyport and who now lives in Seminole, Fla., reached agreement with the diocese in September, one month after another alleged victim of the priest, the Rev. Terence McAlinden, settled a lawsuit for $610,000.
Tominus, 48, said McAlinden sexually assaulted him more than 50 times, beginning when he was 14 and continuing until his family moved out of state when he was 17.
“He introduced me to my first drink — made me drink Scotch,” said Tominus, who has struggled with alcoholism for decades. “He sodomized me. He threatened me. He destroyed my life. My life could have been perfect. He took it away from me.”
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