New Jersey high court hearing case on state probe of clerical abuse
April 28, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: The supreme court of New Jersey is hearing arguments on April 28 in a dispute over the attorney general’s plan to prepare a grand-jury report on the handling of sex-abuse complaints by the state’s Catholic bishops.
State officials had planned an inquiry, similar to a grand-jury report in Pennsylvania that had drawn attention to widespread abuse there. But the Diocese of Camden opposed the plan, arguing that state law does not allow for a grand-jury investigation of the “private conduct” of a religious body. The resulting legal battle, which began in 2021, had only come to public note in March, when court documents leaked into the media.
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