WISCONSIN
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
via BishopAccountability.org:
Rev. Norbert Maday
Rev. Vincent McCaffrey
Rev. Donald Ulatowski
Rev. Raymond Skriba
By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel
Records released Tuesday that document years of sexual abuse by priests in the Archdiocese of Chicago — and the actions and inactions of church officials over the years — include at least four sex abusers with ties to Wisconsin.
The St. Paul, Minn., law firm of Jeffrey Anderson made public 6,000 pages of documents involving 30 priests after eight years of negotiations with church officials over how they were to be released. They include records on:
■ The Rev. Norbert Maday, 75 and now defrocked, who was sentenced in July 1994 to 20 years in prison on three counts of second-degree sexual assault and one count of victim intimidation related to the assaults of two boys in Oshkosh in 1986. He threatened to kill one of the boy’s older brother if they reported the abuse, and they did not come forward until 1992, according to news accounts.
Maday continued to be held as a sexually violent person under Wisconsin’s so-called Chapter 980 law. He was scheduled for release last August, but it was not immediately clear Tuesday whether that occurred.
Chicago Cardinal Francis George took extraordinary efforts to gain Maday’s release, according to the records, telling him in a letter in 2000, “It would be a great fulfillment of the millennium spirit to see your captive heart set free.”
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