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Former Newark Archbishop sexually abused 5-year-old in church rectory, lawsuit claims
Updated May 11, 2021;
Posted May 11, 2021
Former Newark Archbishop Peter Gerety poses in his Rutherford office on the eve of his 100th birthday in 2012. (John Munson | The Star-Ledger)Star-Ledger file photo
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A former Newark resident went to the Archdiocese of Newark last year with an explosive claim.
In 1976, Newark Archbishop Peter Leo Gerety befriended her family and sexually abused her on multiple times in his bedroom in the church rectory when she was 5 years old, she said.
“Do not say anything about this because it will hurt your mother,” she recalled Gerety, then the highest ranking church official in New Jersey, saying. “This is our secret.”