Fr. John F. Ferry
Died 4/11/1988. A man accused Ferry, then an editor of the diocesan newspaper, of drugging and sexually abusing him in the late 1960s when the accuser was a high school student working at the paper. He told his father who “went to the parish with a baseball bat.” The man said that the incident wasn’t reported. He wrote to the Diocese at some point; his letter, along with complaints from more than 35 other alleged clergy abuse victims, were forwarded to police. Information was not released to public until 11/2013, after an NBC 10 investigation. The accuser had correspondence from the Diocese. Ferry’s name was included 7/1/2019 on the Diocese’s list of credibly accused.
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