ILLINOIS
WIFR
Sep 08, 2015
By: Amanda DeVoe
ROCKFORD (WIFR) — Forty years later, a Maryland man comes forward with new allegations, claiming he was sexually abused by a priest while growing up in Rockford.
“From and early age, the thought of death has been my only comfort to unending pain,” said John Doe in a statement.
Protesters of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, also known as SNAP, are in support of John Doe, who claims priest John Holdren of the Catholic Diocese of Rockford, molested him as a child back in the early 1970s. Today Doe has filed a lawsuit against him.
“Basically, this priest got close to him. Took advantage of his closeness of a priest, and ultimately performed unwanted sexual acts on him. Running the gamut of everything from from fondling to a sodomy,” said Doe’s lawyer Tim Freiberg.
Barbara Blaine of SNAP says Holdren is a pedophile, who needs to be exposed.
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