Priest now facing federal charge
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Fr. Donald McGuire
CHICAGO — The Rev. Donald J. McGuire was charged federally Friday with traveling to another country with a minor for the purpose of committing sex acts, according to documents.
The complaint, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court-Northern District of Illinois in Chicago and unveiled Friday, says McGuire traveled from Chicago to Switzerland and Austria and sexually molested a boy he took with in December 2000.
The boy told investigators McGuire, 77, molested him starting in 1999, when he was 13 years old. The repeated abuse ended in 2003 when the Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus ordered McGuire to move from the Canisius House, a Jesuit home in Evanston, Ill., to another residence in Chicago.
The assaults happened mostly in the Chicago area, but also during trips to 11 other states and two other countries, the boy told investigators, according to the complaint.
Another boy accused McGuire of molesting him when he was 9 years old in the late 1980s, according to the complaint. The first abuse that boy reported happened when McGuire was hearing his confession. Assaults continued at retreats the two attended together until the boy was 13 or 14, according to the complaint.
Starting in at least 1991, the Jesuits placed special restrictions on McGuire regarding his contact with minors, according to documents the Jesuits provided investigators.
He was ordered repeatedly not to travel with or be alone with any minors, according to the complaint.
A 2002 memo from the Jesuits says six complaints were made about McGuire since 1991 that include having a young man sleep in the same room with him, having a young man wash McGuire’s feet while he showered, buying underwear for a boy, talking incessantly about sex and showing a boy pornography, according to the complaint.
Under current federal law, the statute of limitations for sexual abuse of a minor extends to the life of the victim.
McGuire could face 15 years in prison or fines totaling $250,000 if convicted of the federal felony.
The charge comes one day after McGuire failed to win a motion hearing for a retrial in Walworth County Court.
He was convicted by Walworth County jury in February 2006 of five state charges of indecent behavior with a child and sentenced to seven years in prison and 20 years probation. The charges stemmed from incidents that occurred at a Fontana residence in the late 1960s with two boys McGuire taught at a Catholic school in Wilmette, Ill.
Should he choose to continue the appeal of his state conviction, McGuire will need to seek a review by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.
Moments after Walworth County Judge James Carlson denied his motions for a new trial, McGuire was arrested for probation violations and taken to the Walworth County Jail.
He was transferred to the federal courthouse in Chicago on Friday.
Nov 8, 2007 at 9:08 p.m.
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The Opus Dei CONTROLLED the 26 years papacy of John Paul II and therefore covered-up the priest pedophilia with the pope - that speaks for itself. The Opus Dei and John Paul II and then Cardinal Ratzinger were too busy cooking up saints in the saint-factory at the Vatican that these 12,000 American poor victims of priest pedophilia counted as nothing.
The Jesuits "disbanded from the church" is the main goal of the Opus Dei agenda for WORLD DOMINATION but the Octopus Dei will die out out soon because it is built on sand.
SHAME on Cardinal MAHONY 500 times more than the Jesuits...and shame on Pope John Paul II 5,450 times more than the Jesuits because he and then Cardinal Ratzinger covered-up the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army see the John Paul II Millstone www.jp2m.blogspot.com
and Pope-Ratzinger God's Rottweiler http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/
Compare the CRIMES and their VICTIMS in America
Victims - Attackers - Responsible Leader
Pearl Harbor - 3,000 victims - 170 planes - Admiral Yamamoto
WTC & 9/11 attacks - 5,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden
USA Priest Pedophilia - 12,000 victims - 5,450 priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI and Josemaria Escriba OD
http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_arch......
Nov 8, 2007 at 11:33 a.m.
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Does the Opus Dei conspire with the Masons? Are they living with Elvis and John F Kennedy as well?
Nov 8, 2007 at 10:23 a.m.
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mcguire did not follow the vows of the Jesuits, and the Jesuits did not follow their own vows. They protected this monster. The Jesuits lied under oath, they told the court he had no history of abuse while they had repeated documents in their possession. They did not cooperate with law enforcement and still have not provided the documents to the law enforcement. The Jesuits obviously believe they are above the law, and the best service they can provide is to be disbanded from the church
Nov 5, 2007 at 1:14 p.m.
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The Jesuits are the only religious order who dedicate their lives and use everything they have "for the poor" for the greater glory of God. What they do is never to amass greater wealth for their Society unlike the secretive Opus Dei who owns the Vatican http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_arch... The Jesuits use everything they have to serve the homeless like the refugees served by the JRS Jesuit Refugee Service http://www.jesref.org/home.php The Jesuits educate their students such as those of the Chicago Jesuit Loyola University and sharpen their conscience with justice and SERVICE to the poor and not oppress them unlike what the Opus Dei do in El Salvador http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007/05/be...
AMDG! The Jesuits are an OPEN book society unlike the Opus Dei who are secretive about the list of their members and WORLD DOMINATION agenda see the John Paul II Millstone for details www.jp2m.blogspot.com The Society of Jesus have always cooperated with the governments unlike Cardinal Mahony who intentionally covered-up HUNDREDS of pedophile priests and to avoid testifying in LA courthouse he paid off $600 million for LA pedophile priests instead of the original $1.2 billion asking settlement price. The Jesuits have an OPEN line to handle any abuse cases unlike other religious orders who tried to cover-up their pedophile members. The Jesuit Suppression of a hundred years is being revisited (and repeated in mutated form as history repeats itself) today by Pope Beneict XVI and the Opus Dei targeting the Jesuits as expounded in the John Paul II Millstone www.jp2m.blogspot.com and www.pope-ratz.blogspot.com
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