August 09, 2005

Judge seals sex abuse case files

ILLINOIS
Chicago Sun-Times

August 9, 2005

BY DAN ROZEK Staff Reporter

Documents filed in a civil lawsuit accusing a former suburban priest of sexually abusing a teenage boy more than 30 years ago won't be made public unless a judge agrees first to release them.

The ruling by DuPage County Judge Stephen Culliton saddened the 48-year-old suburban man who filed the suit in 2003, alleging he had been sexually abused by a priest at his Lombard parish while a teenager in 1970.

"It was a little bit of a disappointment,'' the alleged victim said of the ruling.

Posted by kshaw at August 9, 2005 07:25 AM