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Posted by Charlotte Eriksen (Editor) , September 16, 2013
The Rev. Bede Jagoe, 79, was accused of touching a man’s groin in the Midway chapel, and then kissing him and grabbing him in an elevator, according to the Sun-Times.
“(Cook County) Judge Nicholas Ford said several factors that cast reasonable doubt on the alleged victim’s story let him to rule not guilty,” the Sun-Times reports.
According to a Wednesday Journal report from December 2011, Jagoe was a member of the Dominican order and lived at the Dominican Priory residential community at 7200 W. Division St. in River Forest.
A spokesman for the Dominican Friars Central Province told the Sun-Times Jagoe was removed from ministry when the charges were filed and has been reinstated in the wake of the not guilty rulings.
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