CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Tribune
August 21, 2012
By Jennifer Delgado, Chicago Tribune reporter
A Cook County man filed a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago and Cardinal Francis George on Tuesday, alleging that a now-deceased Augustinian brother who worked at St. Rita of Cascia High School molested him several times in the late 1970s.
A lawsuit filed Tuesday claims Brother Christopher J. McCartney, a former high school dean at St. Rita’s, sexually attacked him in the dean’s office when he was a student. The complaint alleges the Archdiocese of Chicago was careless and negligent because it didn’t investigate sexual abuse reports against McCartney while he worked at the all-boys Catholic high school.
However, according to an official with the Augustinians of the Midwest, McCartney, who died in 2002, was employed by the Augustinian religious order that runs the school on Chicago’s South Side, not the archdiocese, as the lawsuit claimed.
An archdiocese spokeswoman declined to comment, saying she hadn’t seen the lawsuit.
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