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	Wisconsin Court Upholds Ex-priest's Abuse Conviction Chicago Breaking News July 20, 2010 http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/07/father-don-mcguire-loyola-academy-wisconsin-wilmette-lake-geneva.html The Wisconsin Supreme Court today upheld the 2006 conviction of once-prominent Jesuit priest Donald McGuire for molesting two Loyola Academy students in the state during the 1960s. McGuire, 80, who for decades traveled the world as the spiritual director for Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity, was convicted in 2006 for molesting students on several trips to the resort area near Lake Geneva between 1966 and 1968. Although accusers in Wisconsin generally must come forward within six years of being abused, that statute of limitations tolled while McGuire was not residing in Wisconsin. McGuire appealed the conviction, alleging he was denied due process because during the 36 years that passed between the offenses and charges critical witnesses died and evidence was destroyed. "Simply identifying deceased witnesses and describing testimony that they might have provided does not satisfy the requisite showing of actual prejudice," justices said in the ruling. "We also are satisfied that McGuire received a fair trial in which the real controversy was fully tried and justice has not for any reason miscarried," they wrote. McGuire is in custody at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., an administrative facility that provides medical, mental health, and dental services to male offenders. In addition to the 2006 conviction in Wisconsin, he was convicted in 2008 of traveling to engage in sex acts with a teen he had taken on trips to Minnesota, Switzerland and Austria.
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