WATCH: Judge Orders Seton Hall to Hand Over Sexual Abuse Report, by Joanna Gagis

By Joanna Gagis, New Jersey Spotlight, (Complicit Clergy), March 21, 2025

After a lengthy hearing on Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Avion M. Benjamin ordered Seton Hall University to provide her with an internal report on sexual abuse claims involving clergy at the school.

“Seton Hall, in her view, violated a previous court order from a couple of years ago, where she says that they should have coughed up certain documents related to this 2019 report that’s related to former Cardinal McCarrick, into clergy abuse at Seton Hall. And they now have to give her an unredacted version of that report and related documents for her to review. And then she will decide whether portions of it are subject to attorney-client privilege, think that it should be redacted, and then she will then share that redacted version with lawyers for the plaintiffs in this broader case,” said Dustin Racioppi, New Jersey editor for Politico, in an interview with NJ Spotlight News.

Seton Hall attorneys argued in court that attorney-client privilege meant the report should be exempt from having to be shared. Some 450 plaintiffs in this case say the report will reveal a widespread coverup of sexual abuse in the Newark Archdiocese.

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