A trial court in Will County has ordered the Diocese of Joliet to release documents regarding 15 priests who have been “credibly accused” of sexual misconduct or abuse with minors while serving as priests in parishes of the Diocese of Joliet.

Read the full order regarding the release of files regarding preists of the Diocese of Joliet.

The following 15 priests are identified in the order:

1)      Fr. Salvatore Formusa, deceased

2)      Fr. Leonardo Mateo, deceased

3)      Fr. Donald Pock, deceased

4)      Fr. James Frederick, deceased

5)      Fr. John Slown

6)      Fr. Carroll Howlin

7)      Fr. Donald O’Connor, deceased

8)      Fr. James Burnett

9)      Fr. Michael Gibbney

10)   Fr. Frederick Lenczycki

11)   Fr. Philip Dedera

12)   Fr. Anthony Ross

13)   Fr. Lawrence Gibbs

14)   Fr. William Virtue

15)   Fr. Lawrence Mullins

TinleyParkPatch.com has written an extensive article regarding the nearly 300 “perversion files” involving Boy Scouts in Illinois.

This past week, thousands of the “perversion files” of the Boy Scouts were released to the public, including dozens of entries from Illinois.  The LA Times has posted a database with information pulled from these files, which includes direct links to some of the files.  This database supplements the website released in Oregon last week.

For more than a decade, we have been using the perversion files to prosecute claims against the Boy Scouts.  If you or someone you loved survived abuse while in Scouting, please contact one of our sexual abuse attorneys to learn your options.

The Sun Times is covering our work to hold the Christian Brothers accountable for the abuse of children at Leo High School, St. Laurence High School, and Brother Rice High School.  As noted in the article, each of those schools harbored known sexual abusers.

On February 10, 2012, a bankruptcy court in New York issued a “bar date” deadline for survivors of sexual abuse by the Christian Brothers.  The “bar date” is a deadline by which abuse survivors must file a claim with the bankruptcy court or they may be “barred” from ever filing a claim against the Christian Brothers.

We are closely involved with the bankruptcy and have posted the bankruptcy court order regarding this deadline, as well as the notice for sexual abuse survivors.  This is an extremely important deadline that cannot be ignored.  Please contact us if you have questions or want an update on the bankruptcy proceedings.