NEW JERSEY
NJ.com
By Jessica Mazzola | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on November 05, 2015
NEWARK — It was only a walk of about three miles along Broad Street – from Lincoln Park to Washington Park, and back. But, the Thursday morning walk through Newark made a difference for victims of sex abuse, its organizers said.
Fred Marigliano, who recently completed a 270-mile walk from Cape May to Mahwah to bring awareness to childhood sexual abuse, added a city walk to his agenda.
“A number of people from Newark reached out to me, asking why I hadn’t walked through the city,” Marigliano said Thursday.
Marigliano said he was abused by a family priest at age 11. It took him about 50 years to come forward with his story, he said. Marigliano is now a board member of Road to Recovery, Inc., a nonprofit that works to support other victims and their families.
The 68-year-old said he spoke to hundreds of people along the walk, and achieved his goal of spreading awareness about the issue.
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