June 5, 2009
Lawsuit accuses Freehold priest of sex abuse TOMS RIVER — A Roman Catholic priest, most recently the pastor of St. Rose of Lima Church in Freehold, has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually abusing a boy in the 1980s, when the clergyman was assigned to St. Veronica’s Church in Howell.
The lawsuit, filed late last month in Superior Court in Ocean County by lawyer Robert R. Fuggi Jr., alleges that the Rev. Richard Milewski abused his client, an unnamed, 37-year-old Virginia man, between 1984 and 1985.
Fuggi said his client was 13 years old and a student and altar boy at St. Veronica’s, which has an elementary school, at the time. …
The lawsuit alleges that Milewski, on numerous occasions between 1984 and 1985, sexually assaulted the plaintiff and other unnamed victims, all either parishioners at St. Veronica’s Church or students at its grammar school, or both. …
In [one] incident, Milewski molested the boys under the guise of roughhousing, the lawsuit alleged.
It alleged that Milewski and two of the boys molested the plaintiff after Milewski forced the boy to strip naked. Then, Milewski and the two other boys threw the plaintiff outside in the cold, where he cried until he was allowed to come back inside and get dressed, the lawsuit alleged.
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