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Friday, January 25, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 4
HEALTH & WELLNESS
CUOMO AIDS NASSAU L.I. SENATE DEMS PLAN LIRR HEARINGS REASSESSMENT PHASE-IN
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4 Jesuits on list of sex abusers once lived here 3 had retreats at Inisfada, 1 spent over a decade at St. Mary’s Church BY T E R I W EST Four men on a list released last week of Jesuits credibly accused of sexual abuse have ties to Manhasset. One of the men, Joseph Fitzpatrick, was assigned to Saint Mary’s Roman Catholic Church from 1971 to 1983, according to the document published last Tuesday by Jesuits USA Northeast Province. The list includes 50 men who were credibly accused of sexual abuse of a minor or vulnerable adult since 1950. In 1999, someone reported that Fitzpatrick abused a minor in the 1980s. Fitzpatrick, now 85, is currently impeded, meaning he has been removed from Jesuit institutions but is being monitored by authorities within the religious order with limited access to minors, technology and travel, said Mike Gabriele, director of communications for the
Jesuits USA Northeast Province. The province would not provide Fitzpatrick’s contact information. Saint Mary’s did not respond to requests for comment. “We keep them in the Jesuits as much as we can so that we can monitor them,” Gabriele said. “If we were to kick them out of the order they could technically go live anywhere they want.” Three men on the list spent years at Manhasset’s Inisfada, a mansion the Jesuit society used as a retreat house until it was sold in 2013 and then demolished to make way for a housing development. All three men – John Garvey, Edward D. Horgan and Joseph Towle – are dead. The period of the abuse that Garvey and Towle were later accused of overlaps with their time in Manhasset. Garvey left Micronesia, where he was assigned to a parish, in Continued on Page 79
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MANHASSET CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
From left, new Manhasset Chamber of Commerce Co-president Elizabeth Johnson, Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, chamber member and former President C.J. Coleman and returning Co-president Stephanie Solomon.
Elizabeth Johnson rises to chamber co-president BY T E R I W EST Elizabeth Johnson, editor of the Manhasset Press, became co-president of the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce last week, replacing T.J.
Costello. Stephanie Solomon, the owner of Plandome Road’s Chocolate Works, will continue to serve as co-president alongside Johnson. “Manhasset is a special
place and I am honored to become co-president along with Stephanie Solomon and the newly minted chamber board,” Johnson said in an email. “I am excited to continue workContinued on Page 67
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