ILLINOIS
Daily Herald
Christopher Placek
The Rev. Peter Bowman, one-time beloved pastor of St. James Parish in Arlington Heights, faced at least nine allegations of sexual abuse of minors over the course of more than five decades as a priest.
Details of the accusations — of which seven were substantiated by the archdiocese’s review board — were revealed in a 941-page file released Thursday by the archdiocese.
Bowman’s file was one of 36 made available involving priests who have faced “substantiated” allegations of child sexual abuse, according to the archdiocese. Documents on 30 other priests were released in January.
Most of the accusations against Bowman arose after he had been removed from public ministry in 2002. That’s when archdiocese officials first learned of allegations of sexual misconduct with a teenage boy more than 45 years before.
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