NEW JERSEY
The Jersey Journal
By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal
on June 23, 2013
A Weehawken woman who says her twin sons were sexually abused by a member of a religious order in two New Jersey counties is calling for the resignation of Newark Archbishop John J. Myers and the Newark Archdiocese’s new vicar general, who the woman says knew about the alleged abuse and did not act on it.
The 61-year-old woman, who asked not to be named so her sons won’t be identified, said she spoke to Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, the archdiocese’s new vicar general, in 2009 about allegations that her sons had been abused by two members of the Vocationist Fathers religious order.
Da Cunha did nothing, the woman said in a Jersey City conference room recently.
“It fell on deaf ears,” said the woman.
Da Cunha was promoted earlier this month to replace Monsignor John E. Doran as vicar general, second in command to the archbishop. Doran was demoted due to his supervision of the Rev. Michael Fugee, who worked with minors in violation of a lifetime ban on ministry to children. Da Cunha is a member of the Vocationist Fathers.
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