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But in 1989, the $100 million organization was rocked by allegations of sexual and financial impropriety lodged against Ritter and exposed by The Post. Despite having a board of directors, Covenant House's public face has tended to be its presidents. Father Bruce Ritter founded Covenant House and served as president from 1972 to his resignation in 1990.

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Ritter denied that he had a sexual relationship with any of these men.[8] These allegations were not brought to court, and no charges were filed by the district attorney Robert M. Morgenthau or state attorney general Robert Abrams. Haberfeld also cautioned that any staffing gains made through incentives could easily be erased, especially as officers, including some in riot gear, have been seen breaking up protests against the Israel-Hamas war at universities across the country. Maria “Maki” Haberfeld, chair of the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, says departments have been too focused on officer numbers. She worries some are lowering education requirements and other standards to bolster numbers instead of trying to find the best people to police their communities. The survey shows that while small and medium departments had more sworn officers than they did in January 2020, large departments are still more than 5% below their staffing levels from that time, even with a year-over-year increase from 2022 to 2023.

New York City Investigates Youth Shelter Accused of Fraud

Yet when Ritter was forced out in the winter of 1990, following a courageous exposé in The Post, few in the city could guess how widespread the problem was. Ritter left the Franciscan order, but retained his priestly faculties by being incardinated into a diocese in India. From 1990 until the end of his life in 1999, he celebrated Mass privately in his home and attended retreats.

This NYC priest’s dramatic downfall was just the beginning of perv-priest scandals

Four men came forward publicly claiming to have been in sexual relationships with Ritter for years, including multiple who stated the relationships started when they were minors receiving services through Covenant House. A report later prepared for Covenant House counted a total of 15 reported cases of sexual acts between Ritter and youth and young adults who were living or volunteering at the shelter. Workforce training and educational programs are crucial to ensuring at-risk youth will have the opportunity to lead fulfilling lives in their community. CHNY's CovWorksprogram provides enrolled youth with career and education services to advance academically and in the workforce. CovWorks offers High School Equivalency prep, job readiness training, and a workforce initiative known as Individual Placement and Support, which promotes employment opportunities for young adults. CovWorks also offers vocational training programs for careers in nursing assistance, security, cosmetology, and the culinary industry.

In October 1989, Post metropolitan editor John Cotter told Sennott to pick up a call. A former male prostitute named Kevin Lee Kite told Sennott about his long-term sexual relationship with Ritter. It wasn’t a crime — Kite was 25, although he claimed to be 19 — but Kite had much more to tell.

For the first time, the charity has called in consultants, who will evaluate its flagship program, the Under 21 Crisis Center in Manhattan. Last year it provided food, clothing and shelter to more than 10,000 young people. Amid a sharp drop in fund raising that has forced Covenant House to cut its budget by $10 million, administrators have drafted plans for deeper cuts. They would include the closing of some programs, the sale of some buildings, reductions in the number of beds in others and some layoffs.

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Many of these concerns arose again last year, when Ritter put forward plans for a 100-bed shelter in Hollywood. “It is absolutely the largest nonprofit fund-raiser in the city of New York, and the largest child-care agency in the country. Like a rocket ship it went off,” said William Treanor, executive director of the American Youth Work Center, a youth advocacy agency in Washington. Six teen-agers had heard the Franciscan priest was living in the wretched neighborhood, and they hoped he would let them sleep on his living-room floor, instead of leaving them on the bitter cold, dangerous streets.

Ritter resigned from Covenant House on Feb. 27, and organization officials said he was not available for comment. Others have suggested that public relations and fund raising--done largely through direct-mail appeals that graphically describe the travails of teen-agers taken in by Covenant House--often took higher priority with Ritter than getting youngsters off the streets. On Tuesday, New York Newsday cited internal memos indicating Covenant House had impeded an investigation of the brutal murder of one of its clients by denying that it had any connection with the victim. This occurred, Newsday reported, despite the fact that the client’s picture had appeared on the first page of its 1989 annual report.

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Covenant House, founded by Franciscan Father Bruce Ritter of New York, has been a high-profile Catholic charity in Toronto for the past six years. Garnett, the executive director of ShareLife Toronto, told The Interim that a million dollars a year comes from Toronto’s ShareLife, and one-and-a-half million dollars comes from Covenant House, New York. The balance of the over $3 million yearly budget is supplied from provincial and municipal funds. A Toronto Catholic agency – Covenant House – set up to help street kids rehabilitate themselves hands out condoms and does abortion referrals. The New York Times today reported the Franciscan order is investigating a new charge against Father Ritter, 62, that accuses him being sexually involved with a different youth 17 years ago.

The traditional central ceremony has been canceled but separate events for individual schools are still planned. Nearly two hours later, campus police showed up alongside officers from Beverly Hills, forming their own bloc. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators then led a slow march away from the police line, with people beating buckets and pans to the chant of “Free Free Palestine.” They marched without incident across campus.

Although poverty was the main focus of Ritter's teaching, he soon found a more pressing issue, as he had moved into a high crime neighborhood plagued by heavy drug use. The friars were not immune to this situation, and their apartment was frequently broken into and robbed. Gradually they accumulated a following of young volunteers who moved to the East Village, Manhattan, and surrounding apartments in an effort to live in community, and to effect social and political change. Although Fitzgibbon eventually left the ministry, several other individuals, including Adrian Gately, Patricia Kennedy, and Paul Frazier proved instrumental in defining the early years. It has been responsible for changing laws, changing how we think, for educating hospitals, police departments, college presidents, school principals and athletic coaches about rape and rape prevention. In 1986, Abarbanel and attorney Aileen Adams, the first counsel for the Rape Treatment Center, created Stuart House.

Other college campuses across California have seen an increase in protests related to the Israel-Hamas war. A campus group, part of the USC encampment coalition, on Sunday disputed the statement, saying that the president’s offers to meet have been made on condition of dispersing. “This attempt to meet was clearly an attempt to silence us,” USC Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation posted to its Instagram account. USC’s campus has been closed to the general public since Friday, with access restricted to residents and registered visitors. Further steps were hinted at with the approach of commencement ceremonies starting May 8.