Abominations

Sex Abuse Priest Was Placed Near School

BELLEVILLE -- When it came time to finally decide what to do with a priest who was the subject of complaints over 15 years that he raped and sexually molested minors, diocese officials sent him to live next door to hundreds of Belleville elementary and high school students. "You put him right in the heart of a grade school and a high school?" attorney Steve Wigginton loudly asked the Rev. Joseph Schwaegel, a witness Thursday in a civil trial stemming from a 2002 lawsuit. In a barely audible voice, Schwaegel, who was removed from ministry in 1994 because of sexual addiction not involving a minor, said "yes." The lawsuit alleges that James Wisniewski, 47, of Champaign, was sexually assaulted by the Rev. Raymond Kownacki for five years beginning in 1973 when Wisniewski was a 13-year-old altar boy in Salem. The diocese is the sole defendant.
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Posted by Editor at August 22, 2008 10:53 AM