From a sidewalk in Kearny, Henry Coffey, 80, points to the sections
of the old Sacred Heart Orphanage where he says nuns molested and beat
him as a boy in the early 1940s: the laundry room; the nuns’ quarters;
the classrooms.
His sex-abuse claims will be hard to prove in court — the nuns are deceased, for one thing — but Coffey and another former orphanage resident, Frank Fioretti, 81, recently cleared a legal hurdle when a Superior Court judge in Essex County denied a motion to dismiss their 2005 suit.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/six_decades_later_2_men_accuse.html
His sex-abuse claims will be hard to prove in court — the nuns are deceased, for one thing — but Coffey and another former orphanage resident, Frank Fioretti, 81, recently cleared a legal hurdle when a Superior Court judge in Essex County denied a motion to dismiss their 2005 suit.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/six_decades_later_2_men_accuse.html
