Fr. John Robert Butler
Ordained for the Diocese of Richmond VA. Worked in WV, the Diocese of Rockville Centre NY, and the Trenton and Metuchen dioceses. Removed 4/11/2002 in Metuchen after a man complained that he and numerous others had been abused by Butler in Rockville Centre in the 1950s and 1960s. The man said he had complained to the Rockville Centre Diocese when he was a teen, but no action, and that the Diocese moved Butler to a parish in Brooklyn. Worked in the Trenton and Metuchen dioceses 1971-2002. Also allegedly abused at least one in Metuchen; this individual was included in a Metuchen settlement of 2/2003. Named in a 5/2019 suit accusing over 300 in NJ. Included on the Richmond Diocese’s list 2/13/2019. Laicized. On the Rockville Centre Diocese’s’s list in 3/2021. Accused in a 9/2021 lawsuit of abusing a boy, ages 9-12, during 1995-1998, while assigned to St. John Vianney School in Colonia, NJ. Butler died in 2016.
- BA.org Assignment Record and Other Info
- Diocese of Richmond Butler Profile 02.14.19
- Diocese of Rockville Centre List 03.18.21
- NorthJersey.com 09.16.21
- Asbury Park Press 04.16.02
- Newsday 04.23.02
- Star Ledger 01.30.03
- NY Times 01.31.03
- Long Island Newsday 02.12.03
- Daily News 04.15.03
- NY Times 06.13.03
- Diocese of Richmond List 02.13.19
- News Channel 6 02.13.19
- Diocese of Richmond Butler Profile 02.14.19
- Patch 05.07.19
- Diocese of Rockville Centre List 03.18.21
- Associated Press 09.16.21
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