NEW JERSEY
Courhouse News Service
By CHRIS FRY
MORRISTOWN, N.J. (CN) – The Delbarton School faces five lawsuits from alumni of the preparatory school who say they were sexually abused 30 years ago.
The plaintiffs do not use their full names, with three of them using initials and two others simply going by John Does. Each filing involves allegations of abuse from between 1972 and 1984.
Delbarton, a Morristown preparatory school for grades seven through 12, opened in 1939.
While the complaints against the school do not any individuals as defendants, they do identify the priests who allegedly abused the plaintiff students as the Rev. Timothy Brennan, the Rev. Benedict Michael Worry, Father Donal Fox, the Rev. Justin Caputo and the Rev. Luke Travers.
The lawsuits each claim that each of these aforementioned men individually was a “pederast, frotteurist, pedophile and/or ephebophile or other sexual offender, with a habit of making sexual advances and/or engaging in unnatural sexual acts with children.”
Though each complaint tips the scales at 30 pages each, none cites specific instances of abuse or goes into detail about any misconduct. They all simply state that the plaintiffs were all “sexually assaulted and/or sexually abused” by the officials at the school while they were matriculating there.
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