Media Advisory: Sexual Abuse Survivor Sues Augustinian Order For Maintaining Hazardous Public Nuisance

ILLINOIS
Jeff Anderson and Associates

Chicago News Conference Thursday

Sexual Abuse Survivor Sues Augustinian Order
For Maintaining Hazardous Public Nuisance

Lawsuit Implicates Prominent Augustinian Fr. Richard J. McGrath,
High-Ranking Official and Principal at Providence Catholic High School,
for Sexual Abuse and Possession & Destruction of Child Pornography

Sexual Abuse Survivor to Appear Publicly to Call on the Augustinians to
Come Clean and Release its List of Accused Offenders

What: At a news conference on Thursday in Chicago, a sexual abuse survivor and his attorneys Jeff Anderson and Marc Pearlman will:

• Speak publicly for the first time about sexual abuse by prominent Augustinian priest Fr. Richard J. McGrath, O.S.A. while Plaintiff was a student at Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox, Illinois;
• Announce the filing of a lawsuit alleging a serious ongoing hazard created by the Augustinians by keeping secret from the public the names and histories of all accused offenders;
• Disclose the identities of Augustinian priests and brothers accused publicly accused of child sexual abuse and demand a full disclosure of the identities and histories kept secret.

WHEN: Thursday, April 12, 2018, at 1:00PM CST

WHERE: Marriott Residence Inn Chicago – Downtown/Loop
Madison Room
11 South LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60603

NOTES: Watch the event live on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AndersonAdvocates/ and our website www.andersonadvocates.com

Contact Jeff Anderson: Office/651.964.3473 Mobile/612.817.8665
Contact Marc Pearlman: Office/312.261.4550 Mobile/773.368.0142

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