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	Priest in Prison for Molesting Boys Faces New Charges WBBM November 2, 2007 http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/1168202.php? CHICAGO (STNG) -- A Jesuit priest was taken into federal custody Friday on a new charges of sexually molested minor boys, including one who lived with him in Evanston and accompanied him on interstate and international religious retreats. The Rev. Donald J. McGuire was charged in a criminal complaint with one count of traveling to Switzerland and Austria in December 2000 to engage in sexual conduct with a minor, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's office. The complaint was filed Thursday and unsealed Friday after McGuire was transferred by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from state custody in Wisconsin to federal custody in Chicago, the release said. He is serving a prison sentence in Wisconsin for a 2006 conviction for molesting two teenage boys in the 1960s at Loyola Academy. McGuire, 77, of Chicago, is expected to appear at 3:30 p.m. Friday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys in U.S. District Court in Chicago. According to the complaint affidavit, McGuire was ordained in 1961 and is affiliated with the Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits). He was also affiliated until at least 2006 with an organization called Mission Fides, which supported and helped organize McGuire's religious retreats in the United States and around the world, including retreats for Mother Teresa's communities in India. From the mid-1990s until 2003, McGuire's primary residence was at Canisius House, a Jesuit priest community in Evanston. The affidavit states that, according to documents provided by the Jesuits, since at least 1991, McGuire has had a number of restrictions placed on him concerning interaction with minors. According to multiple witnesses, however, McGuire continued to travel alone with boys in their teens and early 20s throughout the 1990s and through 2003, and sexually molested males during this time, including Victim A, a minor, who accompanied McGuire on a retreat to Switzerland and Austria in December 2000, the release said. The affidavit alleges Victim A told investigators McGuire sexually molested him between 1999 and fall of 2003, beginning when he was 13. According to Victim A, the sexual abuse ended in 2003 when the Jesuits ordered McGuire to move from Canisius House to another residence in Chicago. The affidavit also alleges McGuire sexually abused Victim B beginning in about the late 1980s when Victim B was approximately 9. McGuire frequently stayed with Victim B's family when he traveled to retreats and the first sexual abuse of Victim B allegedly occurred while he was hearing Victim B's confession, the complaint says. According to Victim B, McGuire continued to sexually abuse him during subsequent retreats and confessions when Victim B was approximately 13 or 14. The affidavit also details information from another individual –- Victim C, who was 17 when he came to live and work with McGuire in 1998 –- concerning McGuire's sexual interest in boys during the relevant time period. Under current federal law, the statute of limitations for sexual abuse of a minor extends through the life of the victim. The statute carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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