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SW News Herald

By DERMOT CONNOLLY • Friday, October 11, 2013
Groups such as the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) are calling for the removal of the Rev. Robert Stepek from his post as a police resource officer in Burbank,

Stepek was asked in 2006 by the Chicago Archdiocese to step down as pastor of St. Albert the Great Church in Burbank when he was accused of sexually abusing two brothers in the 1980. But he was hired the following year as a police resource officer in Burbank and continues to work there, with the backing of Mayor Harry Klein and other officials.

Klein has been quoted as saying he approved of hiring Stepek as a police resource officer because he “trusted in the goodness” of the priest he knew as a parishioner of St. Albert the Great. Stepek, who formerly was pastor of…