ILLINOIS
My Suburban Life
By ED MCMENAMIN – emcmenamin@shawmedia.com
Thousands of pages of documents released April 30 by a Chicago law firm detail decades of sexual abuse by DuPage County priests, including three priests who worked at St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Bensenville, and the protection they allegedly received from the Diocese of Joliet.
The files of 16 priests accused of abuse, long held confidential by the diocese, were obtained and released by Jeff Anderson and Associates to coincide with five new lawsuits filed by the firm against four offenders.
Priests named in the diocesan documents include the Rev. Anthony Ross, who worked as pastor at St. Charles Borromeo from 1990 until 1993; the Rev. Michael Gibbney, who worked as associate pastor at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Bensenville from 1980 until 1986 and associate pastor at St. Charles Borromeo Parish from 1986 until 1988; and the Rev. James Burnett, who worked as an associate at St. Charles Borromeo Parish from 1968 until 1974.
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