NEW JERSEY
Philadelphia Inquirer
CAITLIN MCCABE, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
LAST UPDATED: Wednesday, July 15, 2015
After the Diocese of Camden removed Edward Igle from active ministry in 2000 over an allegation of sex abuse, he turned to his second career: Family counseling.
Licensed as a therapist since the 1980s, the former priest still runs a South Jersey practice, counseling families and children, and teaches related classes through a Philadelphia-based center, including how to identify and clinically treat victims of sex abuse.
In 2011, church officials told New Jersey regulators about two men who claimed Igle abused them in the 1970s. The diocese deemed both “credible,” a spokesman said, but they were beyond the statute of limitations to be prosecuted.
Still, the state has repeatedly renewed Igle’s licenses.
In interviews this month, Igle, now 68, vehemently denied any misconduct. He called “inaccurate” any suggestion that the first abuse allegation forced him from ministry, and he denied knowing about the second claim.
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