CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Tribune
By Manya Brachear Pashman
Tribune reporter
5:58 p.m. CDT, September 17, 2013
A Cook County judge acquitted a 79-year-old Roman Catholic priest of sexually abusing a traveler who stopped to worship at the chapel inside Midway Airport before boarding a flight to Kansas City.
According to the priest’s attorney Irv Miller, the Rev. Bede Jagoe arrived at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on Monday in an ambulance and watched from a gurney as his accuser testified that the priest touched him inappropriately and tried to kiss him in an elevator back in December 2011.
Judge Nicholas Ford said surveillance video didn’t corroborate the accuser’s testimony, Miller said.
Since the alleged incident in December 2011, Jagoe suffered several strokes, said Bill Skowronski, a spokesman for the Chicago-based Dominican Friars Central Province, who added that the province was pleased the priest lived long enough to see his name cleared in court.
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