ILLINOIS
Patch
By Joseph Hosey
A Wheaton man is suing the priest he claims “brutally raped” him dozens of times when he was a teenage altar boy.
The lawsuit filed on behalf of 49-year-old Daniel Gorski against former priest Lawrence Gibbs also names the Diocese of Joliet, former Bishop Joseph Imesch and former Auxiliary Bishop Daniel Ryan as defendants. Gorski’s wife, Kandice Gorski, is listed along with her husband as a plaintiff.
The lawsuit said Gorski was an altar boy at Christ the King church in Lombard when Gibbs was a priest there. In 1977, Gorski started making repeated visits to Gibbs’ Wonder Lake cabin to attend religious retreats.
While at the cabin, Gibbs provided the 13-year-old Gorski with alcohol, and after drinking it the teen “perform(ed) activities naked in front of” the priest, the lawsuit said.
Gorski was also “exposed to pornography, fondled and brutally raped by Lawrence Gibbs at his cabin,” the suit said.
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