Predator Priests

Berger's Beat
April 16, 2015

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The Joliet diocese has settled 14 predator priest cases for $4.1 million. Two of the clerics worked in our town. One is Fr. Fred Lenczycki, the first U.S. priest to be deemed a “sexually violent predator.” He was at two local hospital (DePaul and Deaconess) and three local parishes (St. Blaise Parish in Maryland Heights. North American Martyrs in Florissant and St. George’s in south St. Louis county). The other is Fr. Lawrence M. Gibbs, who has been called “Joliet’s most notorious” and “savage” predator priest. Ironically, in 2002, when he was first sued, Gibbs was a state social worker in St. Louis investigating abuse allegations against the elderly.