Verdict in Catholic school sex abuse case could mean more trials, advocates say
A New Jersey jury awarded $5 million in damages Wednesday to a Delbarton School graduate, known only as T.M., who alleged he was sexually abused by a Benedictine monk nearly 50 years ago.
Delbarton School sex abuse trial begins
This week marks a historic moment in New Jersey, with the first civil sex abuse case against the Catholic Church in the state to go to trial. At issue is a string of accusations against the Delbarton School, a prominent Catholic college-preparatory school in Morristown.
Former Delbarton School leader, Catholic bishop seeking to replace Archbishop faces scrutiny over sexual abuse scandal
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) is calling for transparency about the actions of Auxiliary Bishop Elias R. Lorenzo, a potential successor to Archbishop of Newark Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, while he was a leader at Delbarton School.
Sex abuse lawsuit against elite Delbarton…
“After the initial lawsuits in 2018, more than 30 more people have come forward with allegations of sexual abuse against the school’s monks and have either filed their own lawsuits or joined existing cases.” – Greg Gianforcaro
COLUMN: Explanations, apologies remain for Delbarton sex abuse victims
The writer, formerly of Mendham, was a victim of clergy sexual abuse while attending Delbarton in Morris Township. He can be reached at randobill777@gmail.com
Delbarton settles 5 sex abuse suits
The Catholic order that runs the Delbarton School in Morris Township has settled lawsuits brought by five men who alleged they were sexually abused by five monks — including a former headmaster of the school.
Delbarton lawsuit against former Mendham man’s lawyer is ‘intimidation’
MENDHAM – To Bill Crane, a lawsuit filed by the Delbarton School against his lawyer is one more tactic of intimidation in the ongoing battle by Crane and others to uncover victims who were sexually assaulted by priests at the school.
Father of men who filed sexual abuse lawsuit against Delbarton says monks betrayed his trust
(Star-Ledger) Bill Crane Sr. remembers the sweaty August day in 1964, when he drove his Pontiac onto the sprawling Delbarton School campus, hoping to land a job as a history teacher that paid $4,400 a year. Married, he had a freshly printed diploma from Upsala College in his pocket and a baby on the way.
Lawsuit: Prestigious Prep School Is Center Of Sex Abuse
MORRISTOWN, NJ (PIX11)— One of the wealthiest and most prestigious schools in the Tri State is now the object of a lawsuit by two men who say there’s a culture of sexual abuse at the Delbarton School and at the abbey adjacent to the Morristown, New Jersey Catholic boys’ campus.
Brothers suing Delbarton School, claiming they were abused by monks
(Daily Record) MORRISTOWN — Twin brothers filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging that they were abused by monks when they were children living at the prestigious Delbarton School, where their father was a longtime teacher and an assistant headmaster.
Suit claims Delbarton monks abused teens
(Observer-Tribune) MENDHAM TWP. ‑ Two former residents who were sexually abused by a former priest at St. Joseph Church when they were youths, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday claiming they were also victimized by two monks at the Delbarton School in Morris Township in the 1970s.
2 former students sue Delbarton over alleged sexual abuse
(Star-Ledger) MORRISTOWN — Born into the Delbarton School family, Tom Crane and his twin, Bill Crane Jr. spent their floppy-haired, muddy-kneed childhoods on the sprawling pastoral campus of the elite all-boys academy, where their father worked as a teacher and administrator for 42 years.
2 sue Delbarton over alleged sex abuse
(Associated Press) MORRISTOWN — Being a child around the Delbarton School campus in the 1960s and ’70s with a father who taught there and later became an assistant headmaster was “total joy,” Bill Crane Jr. recalled. That was before he attended the school as a teen and, he says, a priest sexually abused him over […]
Elite school is sued over priest abuse allegations (Video)
MYFOXNY.COM – Bill Crane and his brother Tom say they were sexually abused by two priests at the elite Delbarton School in Morristown, N.J. “The days of family containment, secrecy, conspiracy and intimidating victims are over,” Bill Crance said.
Clergy Abuse Survivors Kicked Out of Church
No one knows whether James Kelly’s suicide last October in front of an NJ Transit train in Morristown, stemmed from the childhood sexual abuse he endured by a Mendham, priest or from other personal problems.
Pedaling furiously from the past
CLACKAMAS, Ore. — Bill Crane Jr. powers his mountain bike up a steep trail littered with logs and rocks, hiw sinewy legs pumping like pistons. He stops at a clearing created by a mudslide. The view is heavenly: A blue sky hovers over shimmering treetops split by the mighty Columbia River. “God created this,” Crane […]
