NEW JERSEY
The Jersey Journal
By Terrence T. McDonald | The Jersey Journal
on August 11, 2016
A former Guttenberg priest reportedly facing a criminal investigation for allegations that he sexually abused a young parishioner in the 1990s is now the focus of a lawsuit filed by one of his alleged victims.
The plaintiff —a man in his 30s, according to his attorney — is suing the Rev. Michael “Mitch” Walters, the Archdiocese of Newark and Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick. The man is accusing Walters of sexually abusing him in 1994 and 1995 when Walters was pastor at St. John Nepomucene in Guttenberg.
The plaintiff, identified in the 21-count complaint as John Doe, is also accusing McCarrick, former archbishop of Newark, and the archdiocese of being negligent for not protecting him. McCarrick and the archdiocese either should have known about Walters’ alleged behavior or knew about it and covered it up, the plaintiff alleges.
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