NEW JERSEY
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MILLSTONE BOROUGH – A Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing a child in South Amboy in the late 1970s has been found not guilty by an internal church tribunal, Diocese of Metuchen Bishop Paul Bootkoski said Friday.
Monsignor Raymond Cole was suspended from his duties as pastor of the St. Joseph Parish in this tiny Somerset County borough in 2013 as a result of the allegation.
The accusation had been forwarded to the diocese by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, which declined to pursue criminal charges because the statute of limitations for such a crime had expired.
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