[Includes a brief video reflection by reporter Robert Herguth about survivor Robert Krankvich and the dangers that all survivors face. Herguth has been reporting on clergy sexual abuse in Chicago and in the religious orders for years. Photo above: Robert Krankvich, shown as a child, at left, and after he joined the Marine Corps as a young man. Provided]
Robert Krankvich sued the church in 2018, saying the Rev. Richard McGrath raped him while he was a student at Providence Catholic High School in the 1990s. The Augustinian priest was a leader. there Krankvich’s family says that trauma led to addiction issues that fueled serious health problems.
A far southwest suburban man has died at age 43, a year and a half after reaching a $2 million settlement with the Catholic church over a lawsuit alleging he was sexually assaulted as a student by an Augustinian priest who ran…
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