IOWA
Quad-City Times
By Brian Wellner
Court documents claiming defrocked Davenport priest James Janssen molested at least one victim while serving a stint in the Diocese of Joliet were released this week.
Janssen, when reached at home Friday morning, declined to talk about the allegations.
“I’m very sick,” the 90-year-old Janssen said, attempting to cover his face with a plastic bag to avoid being photographed. “Please, I’m very sick. I don’t want to talk about it.”
At one point, Janssen, his face practically buried in the plastic bag, tried to unlock a white Toyota Camry parked in front of his apartment. There was an oxygen tank in the passenger seat.
He lives in a room at the City Center Motel off Interstate 74 in Bettendorf.
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