Priest charged with groping teenage girl appears in court in New Jersey

NEW JERSEY
WABC

By Toni Yates
Wednesday, August 09, 2017

MORRISTOWN, New Jersey (WABC) — Authorities say a newly ordained Roman Catholic priest in New Jersey has been charged with groping a teen girl under her skirt.

38-year-old Father Marcin Nurek came into court in handcuffs, and stood next to his attorney, who has a gazillion doubts about this case.

“My sense is that something doesn’t smell right,” William Ware, Nurek’s attorney.

He says Nurek, of Poland, dreamed all his life of becoming a priest.

“The whole allegation is bizarre. He doesn’t know this person, he has no history of this,” Ware said.

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