T.M. again recounted the circumstances of Dec. 31, 1975, when he says Lott took him to an off-campus party, then "got the ball rolling" by giving him beers.

Lott, a now-89-year-old cleric, previously testified, he was at a Jersey Shore church on New Year's Eve in 1975.

MORRISTOWN − Nearly half a century after he says he was sexually assaulted at age 15 by a monk at the Delbarton School, a former student at the all-boys prep school testified on Sept. 22 that the trauma from that night "follows me around like a dark cloud."

Identified only as T.M., the 1977 Delbarton graduate began his testimony last week, alleging that the Rev. Richard Lott, a Benedictine monk and chemistry teacher, took him to an off-campus New Year's Eve Party in 1975, where he plied him with alcohol and then brought

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