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Pedophile priest who received special treatment from ex Wisconsin governor could be out in nine months
SNAPwisconsin.com
February 14, 2012
Statement by Peter Isely, SNAP Midwest Director
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Pedophile priest who received special treatment from ex-Wisconsin governor could be out in nine months
Pedophile priest Fr. Norbert Maday, whose bizarre case illustrated the hierarchy’s sometimes deep reach into the political world, could be out of a secure state facility for violent sex offenders in time for Christmas.
Today, prosecutors in Winnebago County have reached an agreement with Maday, who has been awaiting trial for civil commitment under Wisconsin’s Chapter 980 law for sexually violent persons, that would release him in nine months if it is signed off by a state medical evaluator.
There are between 35 to 45 known victims of Maday, according to church documents released in a previous civil case against Maday and the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Maday was convicted in the mid-1990s’ for bringing grade school children from his Chicago parish to Wisconsin for purposes of sexually assaulting them. At the time, he was also convicted for intimidating a witness. The priest threatened to kill a victim’s older brother if he testified against him in court.
In a truly bizarre act of political favoritism, when Maday’s mother died in 1997, then Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, at the personal request of Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, ordered state correction officials to work with the state’s legal counsel and arrange to have the body of Maday’s mother transported across state lines to the Fox Lake Correctional Institute in a sealed casket and hearse, accompanied by two funeral home workers, at least one Catholic priest, and six people that Maday himself approved to attend a private viewing and service.
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