NEW JERSEY/ILLINOIS
The Star-Ledger
[Bishop Myers deposition via BishopAccountability.org in easy to use format]
By Mark Mueller/The Star-Ledger
on August 14, 2013
In the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria, Ill., signs that the Rev. Thomas Maloney posed a danger to children were hard to miss.
In late 1994 or early 1995, a woman told church officials Maloney had molested her when she was a child, documents show. Later in 1995, the woman’s sister wrote to the diocese on her behalf, again insisting action be taken against the priest.
Four years later, a couple wrote to the vicar general, second-in-command of the diocese, complaining Maloney had an explicit sexual conversation with their 13-year-old son during confession, the documents show.
The warnings would continue in letters from parishioners and in internal diocese correspondence.
But Newark Archbishop John J. Myers, then bishop of Peoria, says he missed it all.
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