JOLIET (IL)
My Suburban Life
By BRIAN HUDSON – bhudson@shawmedia.com
Created: Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Hundreds of pages of documents were released Tuesday by the Diocese of Joliet offering new details on the accusations against 15 priests — some who served in parishes throughout the west suburbs — accused of sexual misconduct with minors.
The accusations themselves are not new, but the personnel files show — for the first time, in many cases — corroborating information and background on the priests, according to the attorneys reviewing the documents.
A Will County court in January ordered the documents be released in an ongoing lawsuit against the diocese — ruling that public interest outweighs the privacy rights of the priest or the diocese.
The documents were made available to plaintiffs on Tuesday, but there will be a slight delay before they will be published, as lawyers comb through to redact the names of victims.
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