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Presented by Ørsted we learn that federal agents raided a massive Hindu temple in Robbinsville of the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) sect, which appears to be related to a lawsuit accusing it of using low-caste laborers from India and paying them about $1 a day for “grueling” labor.
Former Newark Archbishop sexually abused 5-year-old in church rectory, lawsuit claims
Updated May 11, 2021;
Posted May 11, 2021
Former Newark Archbishop Peter Gerety poses in his Rutherford office on the eve of his 100th birthday in 2012. (John Munson | The Star-Ledger)Star-Ledger file photo
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A former Newark resident went to the Archdiocese of Newark last year with an explosive claim.
In 1976, Newark Archbishop Peter Leo Gerety befriended her family and sexually abused her on multiple times in his bedroom in the church rectory when she was 5 years old, she said.
“Do not say anything about this because it will hurt your mother,” she recalled Gerety, then the highest ranking church official in New Jersey, saying. “This is our secret.”
By WHAV Staff |
May 4, 2021
Stem s Caroline Pineau consults with Attorney Thomas MacMillan during a City Council meeting in 2019. (WHAV News file photograph.)
The City of Haverhill and Stem, a downtown marijuana retailer, exchanged new legal claims yesterday in Essex County Superior Court with the city asking that most claims against it be dismissed and Stem asking for “emergency relief.”
In its filing, Haverhill argues Stem, 124 Washington St., must pay “community impact” fees, not necessarily because of state law, but because the adult-use marijuana business agreed to do so in a contract; that it is too early to document “impacts” Stem may have caused especially in light of the health pandemic; Stem has not been financially harmed, but rather appears to have earned $13 million since opening; and not enough time has passed to verify and negotiate community impact costs.
Man sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting child, filming it
Updated 1:12 PM;
A Newark man who sexually assaulted an eight-year-old child and filmed the assault was sentenced to 25 years in New Jersey State Prison on Tuesday.
An Essex County Superior Court judge sentenced Diego Ayala, 35, to 25 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than 13, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. As part of a plea deal, Ayala will serve the 25 years before he is eligible for parole, according to the statement.
Ayala also pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, according to the statement.
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Mass. Pot Shop Says Host Community Fees Must Be Proven
Law360 (April 8, 2021, 10:46 PM EDT) A Massachusetts cannabis dispensary has sued the city of Haverhill over a controversial state policy that allows municipalities to charge community impact fees, asking the court to order the city to demonstrate why it needs to extract funds from a local marijuana business.
Cannabis retailer Haverhill Stem LLC filed the complaint on April 2 in Essex County Superior Court, alleging that its namesake city had obligations under their host community agreement to show exactly how the shop s activities made the fee collection necessary.
Massachusetts cannabis businesses are required by state regulations to execute these so-called host community agreements with the municipality.