NEW JERSEY
NJ.com
BY THOMAS MORIARTY tmoriarty@njadvancemedia.com,
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
NEWARK — A former member of Sacred Heart Parish who attended Seton Hall Preparatory School is suing both institutions and the Archdiocese of Newark, claiming they failed to protect him from repeated sexual abuse by two priests in the 1960s.
The plaintiff, whose representatives asked that he be identified only as “John Doe,” claims Revs. Robert Gibney — who was a priest at the now-closed Vailsburg church — and William Giblin, the former headmaster of Seton Hall Prep, both sexually abused him in the 1960s.
Gibney, who died in 2012, is alleged to have abused the boy on several occasions. Giblin, who died in 2011, is alleged to have abused the boy at the prep school, according to John Doe’s lawyer, Mitchell Garabedian of Boston.
In addition to the priests’ alleged injuries to him in violation of New Jersey law, Doe’s two complaints in state Superior Court seek punitive damages for what the lawsuits claim were gross negligence and intentional misconduct by the institutions, whose officials he says should have known of the abuse and prevented it.
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