NEW JERSEY
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
August 31, 2018
By Susan K. Livio
Incensed by the flood of new revelations about sexual abuse inside the Catholic Church, a veteran state lawmakers Thursday called on state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal to impanel a grand jury to investigate the decades of crimes and cover-ups in New Jersey.
State Sen. Joseph Vitale, D-Middlesex, said he wanted New Jersey to embark on a similar investigation that led a Pennsylvania grand jury to reveal the names of 300 priests credibly accused of sexual abuse over a 70-year period, according to the 1,356-page grand jury’s report released on Aug 14.
The lawmaker said he would also renew his effort to eliminate New Jersey’s two-year statute of limitations in sex abuse cases.
Vitale said he felt compelled to act in the wake of the resignation of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick amid allegations he sexually abused young boys, seminarians and priests, and the $180,000 in settlements paid to two priests.
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