NEWARK (NJ)
The Star-Ledger / NJ.com / NJ Advance Media
July 17, 2018
By Kelly Heyboer and Ted Sherman
Catholic dioceses in New Jersey paid two former priests a total of $180,000 after they said Cardinal Theodore McCarrick sexually abused them, according to a New York Times report.
The settlements included $80,000 paid to a former priest turned lawyer from New Jersey who said McCarrick would invite him and other young seminarians and priests to a Shore house in Sea Girt where they would be expected to share a bed with the former archbishop of Newark, the report said.
Robert Ciolek, the former priest who said he was abused by McCarrick for years, said he felt unable to say no when the then-bishop would rub his back and touch him in bed.
“In the corporate world, there are ways to report misconduct,” Ciolek, 57, told the New York Times in a story published Monday. “You have an H.R. contact, you have a legal department, or you have anonymous reporting, you have systems. Does the Catholic Church have that? How is a priest supposed to report abuse or wrong activity by his bishop? What is their stated vehicle for anyone to do that? I don’t think it exists.”
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