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	Judge Oks Abuse Trial Vs. Ex-Priest Chicago Sun-Times November 6, 1996 A circuit judge has ruled the case of a Godfrey woman who accused a former priest of sexually abusing her should go to trial. The defendant, Robert Dodd, 58, is now an attorney and a former mayor of Champaign. Judge David Herndon of Madison County on Oct. 29 denied a motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought in 1994 by Carol Eason. Eason, 44, is suing Dodd and the Catholic Diocese of Springfield, where he used to be a priest, for sexual abuse she claims to have suffered over a period of years starting in 1966 when she was 14. Dodd left the priesthood in 1971 and later married.
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