ILLINOIS
Suburban Life
By SUBURBAN LIFE MEDIA
LEMONT – The Archdiocese of Chicago this week released documents related to priests accused of sexual misconduct, including one who worked at a Lemont parish for six months.
Rev. John Hefferan served as parochial administrator for St. Alphonsus Parish in Lemont from July 2002 to January 2003 while the parish was in between pastors.
The documents show official meetings and discussions the archdiocese and review boards had about the accused priests. None of the accused priests whose documents were released are currently in the ministry. Several of the accused priests live in a facility for retired priests in Lemont.
Hefferan was first accused of sexual misconduct in 1993, stemming from an incident that allegedly took place between 1977 and 1978 while at St. Vianney Parish in Northlake.
A review board allowed him to stay in the ministry under observation and later discontinued the monitoring because it believed he was unlikely to repeat the sexual misconduct.
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