CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Sun-Times
BY MITCH DUDEK Staff Reporter September 16, 2013
A 79-year old Roman Catholic priest was found not guilty Monday of inappropriately touching and kissing a traveling businessman from Kansas City who’d stopped into a chapel at Midway Airport to grieve the death of a friend during a layover.
The Rev. Bede R. Jagoe was accused of touching the man’s groin with a finger in the interfaith chapel at Midway and kissing the man and grabbing his groin in an elevator minutes later on Dec. 11, 2011.
Judge Nicholas Ford found Jagoe, who attended his one-day bench trial in a gurney due to ill health, not guilty of criminal sexual abuse and aggravated battery on the public way.
The 61-year-old Kansas City man testified that Jagoe poked him in the groin with a finger as the two chatted in the second-floor chapel after mass, an act he thought, initially, was accidental.
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