ILLINOIS
The Doings Weekly
By Janet Lundquist jlundquist@stmedianetwork.com
Updated: May 16, 2013
During the summer of 1984, Michael Gibbney, a priest at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Bolingbrook, took a group of 10 and 11-year-old altar boys on a “retreat.”
They went to Gibbney’s parents’ Lombard home, where Gibbney provided alcohol and slept with the boys in a camper parked outside the house, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Will County. That night, Gibbney kissed and fondled one of the boys – an act that set off a chain of confusing events that has led to a lifetime of misery for the victim, say his attorneys.
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