NEW YORK (NY)
BishopAccountability.org
October 17, 2017
Summary of Case: William T. White was a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, ordained in 1958. He worked as an assistant priest at a Manhattan parish early on, going on to spend a decade at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, where he served as a counselor and dean of students. That assignment was followed by a year with the Archdiocesan Department of Education, then six years as principal of Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx. From there White spent twelve years as pastor of a parish in New Rochelle. There is a gap in his assignments 1994-1995. During 1995-2002, White taught at St. Vincent de Paul Seminary in Boynton Beach, Florida in the Palm Beach diocese, while assisting at area parishes.
In 1997 a man reported to the archdiocese that White sexually abused him over a three-year period, beginning when the man was a 17-year-old Stepinac student in the 1970s. White admitted to the abuse. The former student received a settlement in 1998. White wasn’t removed from ministry until March 2002, when the clergy sex abuse crisis was a major focus of attention in the news media. In 2004 White was accused in a lawsuit of having sexually abused a boy, ages 9-11, from 1959 to 1961, at Holy Cross parish in Manhattan.
Ordained: 1958
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