CREST HAVEN (NJ)
Cape May County Herald
September 1, 2018
By Al Campbell
A Seaville resident called on freeholders Aug. 28 to petition the state Attorney General to discover why, in 1984, the County Prosecutor’s Office reached an agreement with the Diocese of Camden not to prosecute a priest for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old.
Tom Henry cited the recent Pennsylvania grand jury’s report that detailed sexual abuse of children by priests, and the actions of the Roman Catholic hierarchy “at the highest levels, to hide these abuses from the public.”
Henry said the “evil acts committed did not stop at the Delaware River.”
“The report details the actions of the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office, working with the Camden Diocese not to prosecute a priest who was arrested for taking a 14-year-old to his home in Cape May, giving him beer, and then sexually assaulting him,” said Henry.
He continued that the Bishop’s Accountability Project “cites a lawsuit that claimed the Camden Diocese had at least 15 pedophile priests or monsignors with four bishops and two monsignors covering up their actions by engaging in a practice known as “Bishops Helping Bishops.”
Henry named Rev. John P. Connor as one of the priests, but wondered, “How many other cases were brought to the attention of the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office?”
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