ILLINOIS
CBS Chicago
By Lisa Fielding
(CBS) — A 34-year-old woman, known only as Jane Doe 247, says she was sexually abused by a priest at St. John’s The Baptist Church in Northlake from the ages of 14 to 17.
“I was stunned the first time he touched me inappropriately. I didn’t know what to think. He was a man of the cloth,” Jane Doe tearfully recalled.
Now, she is suing the parish and the Melkite-Greek Catholic Church.
“It is the diocese and the parish that she was at St. John’s that could have and should have done something more than what they did,” said attorney Jeff Anderson.
Anderson says the abuse happened between 1995-1998 and that parish and other clerics knew was going on.
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