Todd Kostrub has been awaiting a reckoning for nearly four years. New Jersey officials raised his hopes in September 2018, when they announced the creation of a special task force to investigate decades-old allegations of sexual abuse by members of the clergy that had long been kept secret. Sparked by a Pennsylvania grand jury report that had graphically detailed the abuse by priests who had preyed upon children in that state for decades, then-New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal named former acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino to head the investigation. The task force would …
