CHICAGO (IL)
Big Pond News (Australia)
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Internal church records just released show Chicago Jesuits concealed the crimes of convicted sex offender Donald McGuire for more than 40 years as the prominent Roman Catholic priest continued to sexually abuse dozens of children around the globe.
One letter written in 1970 by the Reverend John H Reinke, then president of Loyola Academy in Illinois, described McGuire’s presence at the school as ‘positively destructive and corrosive’.
Instead of insisting he be removed from ministry or sent to treatment, he suggested a transfer to Loyola University.
‘This whole situation has been so muddy and troublesome I just wanted to get it out of my mind from time to time,’ wrote Reinke, who died in 2003.
The documents contributed to a $US19.6 million ($A20.09 million) settlement between the Jesuits and six men from four different states announced on Tuesday.
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