MILWAUKEE (WI)
Qaud-Cities Online
By Stephen Elliott, selliott@qconline.com
MILWAUKEE -- For ex-Cambridge resident Dan Koenigs, a 10-year prison sentence for a former Roman Catholic priest meant another chapter closed in his life.
Francis Engels, 69, of Kewanee, was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison on two counts of second-degree sexual assault. Mr. Engels was sentenced to two consecutive five-year terms, according to Jane Carrol, Milwaukee assistant district attorney.
Ms. Carrol said the two counts described sexual assaults against Mr. Koenigs that took place in the summers of 1982 and 1983.
Now a substance-abuse counselor in Piatt County, Ill., Mr. Koenigs, 37, said three priests, including Mr. Engels, molested him many times between 1980 and 1985.
Joe Klest of Schaumburg, Mr. Koenigs' attorney in a civil suit settled earlier this year with the Peoria Diocese, said some of the abuse took place in Kentucky and Wisconsin. Mr. Koenigs was able to identify the Milwaukee motel where the abuse happened, the lawyer said.
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