NY priest threatened to send black student ‘back to the jungle’ and spewed hate towards women: suit

NEW YORK
Raw Story

SARAH K. BURRIS
11 MAY 2016

Father Michael Reilly’s mouth must not have been ordained by God because he unleashed a string of obscenities and inappropriate remarks at St. Joseph By The Sea High School, a recently filed lawsuit claims.

According to the New York Daily News, Reilly called women “b*tches” or “tw*ts,” gay people were called “f*gs,” some teachers were referred to as “d*ckheads,” and at one point he threatened to boot a black man “back to the jungle,” and kick a cancer patient “to the f*cking curb.”

In one incident, Reilly allegedly insulted an elderly staffer calling her a “F*ck crusty, she’s a vodka-sh*tting b*tch that we don’t need.”

The lawsuit against him even alleges that the priest seemed incapable of having a conversation without dropping an f-bomb every few words. He “unleashed a constant stream of rude, crude and inappropriate remarks including saying the word f*ck in almost every sentence in some form,” the 12-page Manhattan Supreme Court filing reads. Documents also show he spread false rumors that one of the plaintiffs was a pedophile priest.

“[The] rude, crude and abusive language and actions committed by Father Reilly … and condoned by the Archdiocese and Cardinal Dolan are offensive to the tenets of [plaintiffs’] religious beliefs,” the suit charges.

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