CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Sun-Times
BY BECKY SCHLIKERMAN Staff Reporter June 27, 2014
A former pastor of a west suburban church sexually abused a boy who was his neighbor and a parishioner, Cook County prosecutors said Friday.
John Hays, 57, allegedly abused the victim from the time he was 8-years-old until he was 13, Assistant State’s Attorney Beth Novy told a judge.
Hays, of the 5800 block of West Race, was listed in police records as the pastor of First Presbyterian Church of River Forest.
“Beginning when the victim was about 8 years old, the victim would go to the defendant’s house to play video games with the defendant’s sons. While the boys were playing the games, [Hays] would enter the room and place the victim on his lap” and fondle him, Novy said.
Hays played what he called “a tickle game and touch the victim all over the victim’s body,” Novy said.
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