River Forest Priest Not Guilty of Sexual Abuse at Midway Airport

By Charlotte Eriksen
The Patch
September 16, 2013

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The Rev. Bede Jagoe, a 79-year-old priest who was accused of grabbing a man's groin in a chapel at Midway Airport and kissing and grabbing him in the elevator was found not guilty of sexual abuse Monday, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

A River Forest priest was found not guilty Monday of inappropriately touching and kissing a traveling businessman at Midway Airport in 2011, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

The Rev. Bede Jagoe, 79, was accused of touching a man's groin in the Midway chapel, and then kissing him and grabbing him in an elevator, according to the Sun-Times. 

"(Cook County) Judge Nicholas Ford said several factors that cast reasonable doubt on the alleged victim's story let him to rule not guilty," the Sun-Times reports.

According to a Wednesday Journal report from December 2011, Jagoe was a member of the Dominican order and lived at the Dominican Priory residential community at 7200 W. Division St. in River Forest.

A spokesman for the Dominican Friars Central Province told the Sun-Times Jagoe was removed from ministry when the charges were filed and has been reinstated in the wake of the not guilty rulings.