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A review board has found that an allegation against Father Robert Degrand is credible. That decision was unanimous. The Diocese of Springfield released the information Monday surrounding the alleged abuse said to have happened in 1980. Back then, Degrand was assigned to Our Saviour Parish in Jacksonville. The review board’s findings mean the investigation will be forwarded to the Vatican Congregation in Rome. Degrand, who has been on leave since last September, will stay there.
“Right now he is on leave from any public ministry, and he no longer lives at the rectory at the parishes that he had been using, so there’s a parochial administrator in those parishes,” Kathie Sass with the Springfield Catholic Diocese said.
Those parishes are in Sigel, Neoga, Green Creek and Lillyville–basically around the Effingham area.
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