TRENTON (NJ)
NJ.com
November 15, 2018
By Kelly Heyboer
New Jersey’s attorney general has begun issuing subpoenas to force the state’s Catholic dioceses to turn over records and files related to its clergy sexual abuse investigation, church officials said.
The Archdiocese of Newark, the state’s largest diocese that represents more than 1 million Catholics, was asked to turn over documents, said James Goodness, a spokesman for the archdiocese.
“The archdiocese has received a subpoena,” Goodness said Wednesday, declining to provide additional details. “We are cooperating with the AG task force.”
The subpoena to the Archdiocese of Newark is one part of what is expected to be a lengthy and wide-ranging investigation into potential priest sex abuse cases across all five dioceses and thousands of Catholic churches and schools.
New Jersey’s other four dioceses – Camden, Paterson, Trenton and Metuchen – are also expected to turn over documents. But none would confirm if they have received subpoenas yet.
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