CAMDEN, N.J. (WPVI) -- The Diocese of Camden is being sued over alleged sexual abuse by a former priest.
Twenty-nine-year-old Justin Hoffman claims Reverend Brendan Sullivan preyed on him from about 1995 to 2001 when he was an altar boy at St. James Parish in Ventnor.
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Hoffman accuses the diocese and former Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, of failing "to warn or otherwise protect children of the Diocese of Camden."
A diocese spokesman tells 6abc "the first accusation of abuse that the diocese received regarding Brendan Sullivan was in 2010.
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Even though he was then retired, he was removed from ministry and prohibited from serving as a priest." Sullivan died in 2011.
Dimarzio is now a bishop in Brooklyn. He has not commented.