PATERSON (NJ)
NorthJersey.com (The Record)
February 17, 2018
By Richard Cowen
A former administrator with Catholic Family & Community Services has sued the agency, claiming she was sickened by toxic mold in the workplace and later fired after investigating allegations of child abuse and sexual assault at the Mount Saint Joseph’s Children Center in Totowa.
In a lawsuit, Loretta Urban-Critchett says she went to Mount Saint Joseph’s in June of 2015 to investigate a report that an employee had thrown hot coffee on a student. There were also reports of a boy who had twice been sexually assaulted — once in a van with employees present. And she alleges there was a “fight club” organized by night shift workers at the home for troubled youths.
Urban-Critchett says she spoke to the executive director, Diane Silbernagel, who promised to hire a private investigator. She also spoke to the Human Resources director, Dennis Butler, “and Mr. Butler failed to act on the rape incident,” the lawsuit says.
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