NEW JERSEY
WRAL
October 2, 2020
A former chaplain at a Roman Catholic prep school in northern New Jersey faces criminal charges for engaging in “a pattern of behavior” that threatened the welfare of six students, prosecutors said.
Salvatore DiStefano, 61, who had been chaplain at the all-boys Oratory Preparatory School in Summit, allowed students to consume marijuana products in his office and tried to entice them to go off campus with him, according to a statement Thursday from the Union County Prosecutor’s Office. He had been placed on leave in January following allegations of misconduct.
DiStefano is charged with five counts of using a juvenile to commit a crime and six counts of child endangerment.
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