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	Prosecutors Want 4 More Accusers to Testify against Defrocked Priest Donald McGuire Is Charged with Molesting Underage Boy in 2000 By Jeff Coen Chicago Tribune September 10, 2008 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-mcguire-11-sep11,0,2064932.story Federal prosecutors want four additional alleged victims of a defrocked Jesuit priest to testify against him next month, when he is scheduled to to be tried on molestation charges. Donald McGuire, 78, a former spiritual director for Mother Teresa, is charged with using his status in the church to repeatedly molest an underage boy during overseas travels in 2000. That person, now a college student, is expected to testify at a trial set to begin Oct. 6 in Chicago's federal court. In a court filing last week, prosecutors asked that the four additional accusers testify because the sexual abuse was similar to the charged conduct. They were abused between 1989 and 1999, authorities said. "His technique, victim after victim, was substantially the same: Isolate the boy from his family; use his role as a Catholic priest to induce the boy to talk about sex in the context of confession; progress to use of pornographic magazines and videos to heighten the sexual discussion; incorporate physical contact . . ." the filing said of McGuire. McGuire, who is charged with engaging in sexual misconduct with the minor while traveling to Switzerland and Austria in December 2000, is being held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center. During a separate trip to Frankfurt, Germany, McGuire allegedly showed one victim pornographic magazines and told the minor that he kept them so he would know what temptations boys faced. The filing alleged he told the victim that pornography was "like artwork, comparable to the paintings in the Sistine Chapel." He was convicted in 2006 in Wisconsin of molesting two students from Loyola Academy in Wilmette during trips near Lake Geneva in the 1960s. He is appealing his 7-year prison sentence. McGuire also is awaiting trial in Arizona on charges of molesting two underage brothers during visits to the Phoenix area from 1998 to 2002. McGuire's attorney, Stephen Komie, declined to comment on the government's filing, but said his client continues to think that the alleged victims are making false accusations to reap a financial settlement from the church.Contact: jcoen@tribune.com
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