Category Archive for : ‘General’

Edward Cardinal Egan finally named the names of accused child-molester priests, yet Brooklyn Bishop Thomas Daily is still refusing to cooperate.  This criminal silence continues even though sources say the Queens and Brooklyn district attorneys are communicating quietly with Daily’s lieutenants, which is a nice way of saying authorities are breathing down his eminence’s neck.  An unlikely supporter of the DA’s cause is the Rev. Gary Hayes, who runs a small church in Kentucky.  Hayes knows first-hand how dangerous Daily’s hide-and-seek game can be.  In the early ’70s when Hayes

The Archdiocese of New York said yesterday that it gave Manhattan prosecutors a list of priests accused of sexual misconduct with minors in the past 40 years.  The archdiocese also released a new policy for handling such allegations against its priests.  The policy calls for accusations of misconduct to be put in writing; for the priest to be interviewed by church officials and to respond in writing; and for a committee of clergy and lay experts to determine whether the allegations should be sent to law enforcement officials.

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Rev. Angelo Ditta was removed from active duty just two weeks after Bishop William Murphy saidthere were no credible allegations of sexual abuse against any active priest on Long Island. Thediocese has removed Ditta based on a complaint it has been aware of since 1997. Ditta moved to St.Margaret of Scotland in Selden and Matthew Mosher, who was molested by him beginning when he was 9,would visit Ditta and serve Mass with him.

Last week, the diocese also removed the Rev. Eugene Vollmer, an associate pastor at St. James inSeaford,

Bradley Kurtzberg, 33, a divorce attorney from Melville, was arrested at a mall in Paramus, New Jersey where he had allegedly arranged to meet 15 year old April for a sexual encounter.  April was not a 15 year old, she was a member of an FBI task force whose duties include trolling cyberspace for sexual predators.  He told April that he would be gentle and would bring protection for her first time.  He pleaded guilty last year to one count of transporting child pornography and has been sentenced to 22

Kevin Mahoney, a former upstate New Yorker said yesterday he was infuriated that Monsignor William White, 69, who molested him more than 25 years ago, remained an active clergyman until last month, nearly five years after he reported the abuse to church authorities.  White resigned after the president of the St. Vincent De Paul Regional Seminary, in Boynton, Florida, learned that the Archdiocese of New York in 1997 gave Mahoney $100,000 to keep the abuse charge quiet.  White admitted making sexual advances to his 17 year old former high school

Bruce Cummings, a 16 year old Greenwich High School student, has been arrested and charged with raping a female classmate at the school.  He was charged Monday with first-degree sexual assault after a female classmate told police he raped her inside his sport utility vehicle during a break from classes.  He invited the 16 year old girl to leave campus and go to a local restaurant but instead drove his vehicle to a nearby driveway and committed the rape.  He was released on $100,000 bond and is scheduled for arraignment