Fr. John Joseph Jenik

Diocese: Archdiocese of New York

Notes:

Auxiliary bishop of New York from 2014. Assigned to Our Lady of Refuge in the Bronnx since 1978. Removed from public ministry in 10/18 after the Lay Review Board deemed ‘credible and substantiated’ allegations that Jenik sexually abused a teenage boy for 5 or 6 years, beginning in 1978. His accuser first came forward in 1/18. He said Jenik would ply him with alcohol and abuse him during overnight stays in the rector, and at a country home in Tivoli. Jenik denied the allegations. Vatican to investigate.

Sources:

New York Daily News 10.29.18Archdiocese of New York 10.31.18New York Times 10.31.18New York Daily News 11.01.18New York Times 11.11.18; http://origin.bishop-accountability.org/