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	Man Sues Former St. Rita Priest By Rummana Hussain Southtown Star March 21, 2008 http://www.southtownstar.com/news/854101,032108strita.article A Chicago-area man filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing a former Augustinian Roman Catholic priest of molesting him when he was a teenager. Between 1976 and 1979, John Johnson, now 44, allegedly was assaulted by St. Rita of Cascia Parish priest John D. Murphy, who also was named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by 13 other male victims in 2003. The Augustinian order settled with the men a year later. Johnson also was sexually abused by St. Rita High School's choir director during a semester in his freshman year, according to Barbara Blaine, president of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. The now-deceased male teacher, also acting as a disciplinarian, would make Johnson come to school on Saturdays, and the teacher would molest him, the lawsuit says. "It's indescribable," Johnson said of what he endured. "If I can save even one kid from it, I've done my job." Officials with the Augustinians of the Midwest Province, which was named as a defendant in Johnson's lawsuit, were not available Thursday for comment.
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