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 priests with ties to Bloomingdale, Carol Stream, Itasca and Roselle, 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 associate pastor at St. Peter Parish in Itasca from 1980 until 1982 and as associate pastor and then temporary administrator at St. Isidore Parish in Bloomingdale from 1989 until 1990; the Rev. Phillip Dedera, who worked as associate pastor at St. Walter Parish in Roselle from 1979 until 1984; the Rev. Donald Pock, who worked as pastor at St. Peter Parish in Itasca from 1987 until 2002; and the Rev. Salvatore Formusa, who worked at St. Luke Parish in Carol Stream from 1967 until 1968.
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