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Summary of Case: John C. Holdren was ordained for the Rockford IL diocese in 1971. He assisted in parishes in Aurora, Crystal Lake and Geneva. He pastored a Johnsburg parish from 1983 until going on sick leave in 1994, after he was injured during what he told police was a home invasion. He is last indexed in the Official Catholic Directory in 2005, still as “Absent on Leave.” Holdren was accused in a lawsuit filed September 8, 2015 of sexually abusing a 7 to 9-year-old boy at an Aurora parish in the early 1970s. The abuse is said to have included fondling and sodomy. Holdren’s accuser said some of his friends have told him they were abused, too. Holdren denied abusing the boy.
Ordained: 1971
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