Fr. John M. Beatty
Parish priest, high school teacher, hospital chaplain. Worked in the Diocese of Peoria until 1963, when he was transferred to San Diego. Died in 7/1997. First named publicly as accused on the San Diego diocese’s 9/14/2018 list. Added to the Diocese of Joliet’s list in 2/2021. Included in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General’s Report. Report in 1955 to Beatty’s superior, Fr. John Burke, that Beatty fondled a St. Patrick Central Catholic High School student, age 16. Beatty was transferred. (Burke is also an accused priest.) Beatty’s victim did not come forward again until he spoke with the Attorney General’s investigators in 2018. In 2004 another former St. Patrick’s student had reported abuse by Beatty in the early 1960s; the allegation was deemed credible, but not publicized.
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