PEORIA (IL)
Spiritual Politics

Mark Silk | Aug 15, 2013

In the latest chapter of the John J. Myers story, our hero does his best Sgt. Schultz imitation. As in: ”I see nothing. I was not here. I did not even get up this morning.” That’s the gist of the what Myers had to say when deposed three years ago regarding accusations that Msgr. Thomas Maloney had sexually abused a series of children in the Diocese of Peoria during the time that Myers was climbing the greasy pole there.

Here’s a bit of His Excellency’s colloquy with Attorney Jeff Anderson, representing the plaintiff in the case.

Q. Okay. When it comes to Father Monsignor Maloney, at any time while Bishop or Coadjutor or while a priest of the Diocese of Peoria, did you have any suspicions or receive any information from any source suspicions of sexual abuse by him?

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