Allegations of Sexual Misconduct By Priests
In 2002 news media reported that some former school administrators had been either released from the priesthood or relieved of their duties due to accusations that they had solicited or molested youth during their years at Stepinac. In 1988 Rev. Donald T. Malone, principal and former Dean of Students, was reportedly picked up by White Plains police for soliciting sex from a 16- or 17-year-old boy. While the impropriety was not made public by either the police or the school's administration, Rev. Malone was immediately removed as principal and reassigned to a parish.
Also in 2002, it became publicly known that in 1998 the archdiocese had quietly settled a lawsuit over accusations that Monsignor William White had carried on a sexual relationship with a male student for a three-year period in the late 1970s when White was a dean at the school.
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