Fr. Walter Joseph Turlo
Resigned from parish and placed on leave in 6/2005 after allegations of inappropriate behavior with a minor at St. William’s Church in Chicago about 30 years previously. Laicized in 10/2009 per Chicago archdiocesan report accessed 1/14/2010. Lawsuit filed 6/8/2017 alleging sex abuse of a boy, ages 9-10, in the late 1970s. Found by a news outlet in 10/2018 living around the corner from a grade school in Lyons. Included in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General’s Report, which notes four “reported survivors.”
- Accused Priests Chicago, BishopAccountability
- Archdiocese of Chicago Press Release 06.04.05
- Daily Southtown 06.06.05
- Chicago Sun Times 06.06.05
- Associated Press 06.06.05
- Chicago Tribune 09.27.05
- Chicago Archdiocesan Report 09.15.08
- Chicago Archdiocesan Report 01.14.10
- IL SNAP Statement 09.20.14
- Cook County Record 07.05.17
- ABC 7 09.29.18
- IL Attorney General’s Report 05.23.23
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