Former Tulsa priest charged with sexually abusing teen in 2001

TULSA (OK)
Tulsa World

May 23, 2018

[With link to docket and several court documents.]

A former Catholic priest ordained in Tulsa has been charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy in a suburban Chicago hotel in 2001 after police reopened an investigation that had been dormant for more than a decade.

Kenneth Lewis, 56, of Arvada, Colorado, is charged with felony criminal predatory sexual assault. He posted bail after a court hearing in Chicago on Saturday.

Evanston Police Commander Ryan Glew says the alleged assault occurred when the then-priest accompanied the boy and his family on a trip from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Evanston, Illinois. He says the family reported the incident in 2004 but prosecutors declined to charge Lewis.

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