An order of nuns abruptly shuttered a domestic violence shelter in Hells Kitchen and are pestering more than a dozen abused and homeless women to leave, according to court papers.
The drama began in June, when the nuns suddenly fired executive director Deborah Pollock, claiming after more than two years in the position they hadThe shelter has been open since October 1977.The sisters feared she “was mismanaging the finances of the Dwelling Place” when they canned her, they said in the legal filing, without detailing the alleged wrongdoing.
The nonprofit insists it’s been financially independent of the nuns for years and that the Franciscan Sisters have no authority to dismantle it.
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