NEW YORK (NY)
New York Times

By Colin Moynihan
August 8, 2016

[Note: See the letter discussed in this article. Fr. Eugene J. O’Brien, S.J., Mr. Beck’s superior for many years at Fordham Prep, has also been accused of sexual abuse, as has another Jesuit, Fr. Roy A. Drake, S.J., who taught at the Prep during Beck and O’Brien’s tenure.]

The gathering, in June 1984, was like many others involving recent graduates of Fordham Preparatory School, a Jesuit all-boys secondary school in the Bronx. It took place at a home in Westchester County, where many of Fordham’s students lived. Most of those at the party drank and several ended up spending the night, according to a former Fordham Prep student, Michael Meenan.

That night, Mr. Meenan said, a Fordham Prep teacher who had driven him to the party performed oral sex on him while he…