ILLINOIS/WISCONSIN
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

Statement by Barbara Blaine of Chicago, president of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (312-399-4747, SNAPblaine@gmail.com)

Norbert Maday, an ex-Chicago predator priest who was convicted in Wisconsin for molesting boys, will be released from prison in the next few weeks. We suspect he’ll move back to the Chicago area, and we call on Chicago Catholic officials to use their vast resources to warn families about him.

Maday was convicted in 1994 on three counts of sexual assault and one count of intimidating a victim and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

He was ordained in 1964 and graduated from St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein (in the same class with two other Chicago predator priests: Fr. Robert Mayer and Fr. Ralph Strand. Maday worked at St. John of God in Chicago (1964-66), St. Leo’s in Chicago (1966-1969),…