WOODLAND PARK (NJ)
North Jersey Record
August 7, 2019
By Deena Yellin and Abbott Koloff
A man who grew up in North Jersey plans to file a lawsuit alleging that he was sexually abused as a child by former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, his attorney announced Wednesday during a press conference.
Mitchell Garabedian, the attorney, also released the names of 28 New Jersey priests who allegedly abused 30 of his clients who are seeking settlements through a victim’s compensation fund set up by the state’s five Catholic dioceses.
Twelve of the priests have never been named before, Garabedian said during the press conference, which was held in West Orange. The attorney said that if the victims aren’t satisfied with the settlements offered by the church, they could file lawsuits in December when a new state law opens a two-year window for such cases to be filed.
Garabedian said that the abuse occurred between 1946 and 1982.
One man, James Greiner, who once lived in Bergen County, was planning to file a lawsuit rather than go through the compensation fund, the attorney said.
Greiner, now 61 and living in Virginia, told the New York Times last year that McCarrick was a close family friend he knew as “Uncle Ted.” The report said that in 1958, shortly after McCarrick was ordained as a priest, he baptized Greiner at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Tenafly.
An attorney who previously represented Greiner told NorthJersey.com that some of the abuse took place at his client’s home in Tenafly.
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