JOLIET (IL)
Naperville Sun
BY JON SEIDEL Sun-Times Media jseidel@suntimes.com June 27, 2012 7:32PM
Updated: June 27, 2012
New allegations of sexual abuse are being leveled at a former priest from the Diocese of Joliet already accused of molesting several young boys in the 1970s.
Terence Breen sued Lawrence Gibbs and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet in Will County Circuit Court this week. He claims Gibbs gave several young boys alcohol and pornography during a retreat at a Wisconsin cabin in 1977, had them play games, swim and perform other activities naked.
And he said Gibbs took him into a cabin bedroom to molest him in 1978.
A spokesman for the Diocese of Joliet didn’t return a call seeking comment Wednesday afternoon.
Gibbs has already been named as a defendant in three civil lawsuits alleging he sexually abused two boys from Lombard and one from Lockport while serving as a parish priest in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were settled in the late 1990s for undisclosed sums. No criminal charges were filed.
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