CHICAGO (IL)
NBC Chicago
By Mary Ann Ahern
Tuesday, Jan 17, 2012
After nearly 40 years, a Chicago-area woman last summer told the Chicago Archdiocese that Rev. George Klein, once the principal at St. Benedict High School, had sexually abused her.
The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said it started after she was found drunk at a basketball game in the mid 1970s. She was called to the principal’s office and she thought she would be expelled from school. But what she says happened was far worse.
“He did touch me, he kissed me, he fondled me, he opened up my blouse, went up my skirt. He molested me right there in the school,” she recalled.
She said it happened repeatedly for more than a year. …
In the letter, McCluskey states: “The Board made the determination that Fr. Klein’s conduct did not constitute sexual abuse of a minor but was otherwise inappropriate.”
It turns out Fr. Klein phoned Cardinal Francis George in mid-December, anxious to hear if he had been cleared. After that conversation, he told his pastor he was allowed to once again say mass and did so at St. Philip the Apostle in Northfield on Jan. 1, telling parishioners he was the victim of unfair allegations
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