NEW JERSEY
Mahwah-Ramsey Daily Voice
July 13, 2020
By Cecilia Levine
The Newark Archdiocese on Monday was slapped with nine new lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by seven clerics, including one who has never before been publicly accused, NorthJersey.com reports.
The suits were filed under a new law that expands the limitation period for claims by adults sexually abused while minors, and went into effect Dec. 1, 2019.
Included in the new set of lawsuits is Peter Russell, who has not been named in any suits up until now, NorthJersey.com says. He is accused of abusing a boy while stationed at St. Joseph’s Regional High School in Montvale, in the 1980s. That suit also accuses Brother John Dagwell of abuse at the school.
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