NEWARK (NJ)
NorthJersey.com
July 13, 2020
By Abbott Koloff
Nine lawsuits were filed against the Newark Archdiocese on Monday alleging sexual abuse by seven clerics , including one man who belongs to a religious order and who has never before been publicly accused.
In some other cases, the accusations brought out new information about priests who have been listed as credibly accused by church officials.
Kenneth Martin, a former Bayonne priest, was accused in court papers of abusing a boy from 1981 to 1984. The alleged abuse took place at about the same time another survivor has said he told priests and church officials about being abused by Martin, who remained in ministry until 2002 — when he was removed amid a national sex scandal in the church.
Mark Crawford, the head of the New Jersey chapter of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, said he went to church officials about Martin in the early 1980s and received a settlement from the archdiocese in the mid-1990s. He said his brother also was abused by Martin.
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