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[Bishop Myers deposition via BishopAccountability.org in easy to use format]

[Via Jeff Anderson & Associates: Deposition of Archbishop Myers Redacted
Deposition of Msgr Gerald Ward Redacted
Deposition of Archbishop Myers Redacted]

By Edith Brady-Lunny eblunny@pantagraph.com

NORMAL — A haphazard filing system and the Irish inclinations of a former bishop of the Peoria Catholic Diocese are among the reasons that allegations of sexual misconduct by priests were delayed or never turned over to police, according to 200-page deposition released Tuesday by the lawyer for a former Normal student who has been awarded $1.35 million by the diocese in an abuse case.

John Myers, now Archbishop of Newark, N.J., answered questions in 2010 as part of a lawsuit filed by Andrew Ward, now 25, of Michigan. Ward accused the late Thomas Maloney, a former priest at Epiphany Church in Normal, of abusing him…