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	Woman's Suit Alleges Abuse by Mormon Priest Chicago Breaking News February 24, 2009 http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/02/womans-suit-alleges-abuse-by-mormon-priest.html In a lawsuit filed today, a 22-year-old Chicago woman accused her former adoptive father, a Mormon priest, of sexually abusing her at their Park Ridge home and at a Mormon church in Wilmette. The woman, whose name the Tribune is withholding because she says she was a victim of sexual abuse, alleges that the abuse started at age 4 and continued until she was about 14, when the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services removed her from her adoptive parents' home. The lawsuit filed in Cook County names her adoptive father, Christopher W. Kite, her adoptive mother's brother David Bromley and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The lawsuit also alleges that her adoptive mother, a nurse, would give her medication -- the plaintiff's attorney said it was sleeping pills -- before the abuse. The woman's attorney, Edmund Scanlan, said it was "by far the most horrific case" he's handled in 25 years of practice. He said a family member of the accused Mormon priest corroborated his client's story. The priest has never been criminally charged in connection with the alleged abuse, Scanlan said. Neither Kite nor Bromley could be reached for comment Tuesday night.
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