CHICAGO (IL)
Southtown Star
A man filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming a now-deceased priest molested him more than 20 years ago while he was a parishioner at St. Christina Parish in Chicago’s Mount Greenwood community.
The plaintiff, listed only as John W. Doe, filed the suit in Cook County Circuit Court against the Archdiocese of Chicago.
In it, he claims the Rev. John Curran sexually abused him in 1987 while he was a child and a parishioner of St. Christina, 11005 S. Homan Ave.
The suit claims the plaintiff, who was then an altar server at the parish, came from a devout Catholic family and trusted Curran, even though the Archdiocese previously had received reports that he was sexually abusing minors.
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