ILLINOIS
Northwest Herald
By EMILY K. COLEMAN – ecoleman@shawmedia.com
ROCKFORD – A lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses a priest, formerly of churches in Crystal Lake and Johnsburg, of sexually abusing a 7- to 9-year-old child while assigned to an Aurora church.
The lawsuit names the Rev. John C. Holdren, who retired in 1994 from St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Johnsburg where he spent 10 years as a priest. He also spent six years at St. Thomas the Apostle in Crystal Lake in the 1970s.
The Catholic Diocese of Rockford was notified of the lawsuit Tuesday, spokeswoman Penny Wiegert said, adding that the diocese didn’t have a comment as of Wednesday afternoon.
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