ILLINOIS/NEW JERSEY
The Record

Illinois diocese to pay $1.35 million in suit that alleges Myers failed to stop pedophile priest while bishop there

MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2013
BY JEFF GREEN
STAFF WRITER

A Catholic diocese in Illinois has agreed to pay $1.35 million to settle a lawsuit that claims John J. Myers, its former bishop and now the archbishop of Newark, failed to keep an alleged pedophile priest away from children.

The Diocese of Peoria received a complaint from a woman in 1995 that she was molested by Monsignor Thomas W. Maloney during her childhood, but church officials did not act, the suit contends. A year later, the suit says, Maloney went on to abuse 8-year-old Andrew Ward, the plaintiff in the case.

The settlement will be announced Tuesday at a press conference outside Myers’ office in Newark. A deposition of Myers, which has been under…