The longer an abuser was a priest or brother, the longer they could take advantage of the unique access and power afforded Catholic clerics and religious brothers to sexually abuse children.
Message from the Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul
https://clergyreport.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/
(complete list of abusive priests below)
Download the complete 696-page report (30 MB PDF)
English https://clergyreport.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/download/
Report on Catholic Clergy Child Sex Abuse in Illinois 2023 on Scribd
The following report represents the conclusion of my office’s multi-year investigation into child sex abuse by members of the Catholic clergy in the six dioceses across Illinois – the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Dioceses of Belleville, Joliet, Peoria, Rockford, and Springfield. This investigation began in the latter half of 2018 on the heels of a Pennsylvania grand jury report finding that more than 300 Catholic clerics had abused more than 1,000 children in the Commonwealth over the prior 70 years. Even before being sworn into office, I committed to continue the investigation my predecessor initiated.
Over the course of this investigation, two goals remained at its core: first, to obtain a full accounting of substantiated child sex abuse committed by Catholic clergy in Illinois and provide a complete public report of substantiated abusers; and second, to give voice to survivors in an attempt to contribute to their healing journey. To these ends, my attorneys and investigators examined thousands of diocesan files, reviewing more than 100,000 pages of documents held by the dioceses. They spent countless hours engaged in interviews and conversations with diocesan leadership and representatives. And over the course of this investigation, my office received more than 600 confidential contacts from survivors through emails, letters, voicemail messages, interviews, and phone calls. My investigation team treated each allegation with the respect it deserved and followed leads as they arose to ensure we conducted a thorough and comprehensive investigation. To build the most compelling portion of this report, my team worked closely with survivors to draft narrative accounts of their experiences as children sexually abused by clerics. Without those survivors who bravely came forward to share their experiences and perspectives, neither the investigation nor this report would feel complete. I express my sincerest gratitude to each of those survivors, and to the others who contacted my office, for their deeply personal contributions.
As a direct result of this investigation and my team’s persistence, the dioceses have improved their policies relating to their investigations of child sex abuse allegations and the public disclosure of substantiated child sex abusers. Before this investigation, the Catholic dioceses of Illinois publicly listed only 103 substantiated child sex abusers. By comparison, this report reveals names and detailed information of 451 Catholic clerics and religious brothers who abused at least 1,997 children across all of the dioceses in Illinois. As explained in the recommendations section of this report, more work remains, but this investigation resulted in significant steps forward in the dioceses’ policies relating to investigations, disclosure and transparency, and survivor care and communications.
Decades of Catholic leadership decisions and policies have allowed known child sex abusers to hide, often in plain sight. And because the statute of limitations has frequently expired, many survivors of child sex abuse at the hands of Catholic clerics will never see justice in a legal sense. It is my hope that this report will shine light both on those who violated their positions of power and trust to abuse innocent children, and on the men in church leadership who covered up that abuse. These perpetrators may never be held accountable in a court of law, but by naming them here, the intention is to provide a public accountability and a measure of healing to survivors who have long suffered in silence.
Abusive Clerics and Religious Brothers List
https://clergyreport.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/abuserlist/
Deogratias Aguilar
Louis Altendorf
John Anderson
Joseph Sebastian Angers
James (Hugh) Austin
Michael “Miguel” Baca
Federico Fernandez Baeza
Felix Bak
Edward Balestrieri
David B. Ball
Oscar (Anscar) Bandini-Beguerisse
Alexander Sylvester Baranowski
Charles Patrick Barnes
Robert O. Barnett
Wayne Barron
Harry J. Barton
Richard Barry Bartz
Patricio William Batuyong
John M. Beatty
Robert Charles Becker
Robert E. Beckstrom
Joseph R. Bennett
Richard L. Bennett
Gary D. Berthiaume
Leonard Adolph Bogdan
Robert Boley
Real “Ray” Bourque
Robert Peter Bowman
Daniel Patrick Brady
David Francis Braun
Walter Bruening, a.k.a. Walter Breuning
Robert C. Broome
Robert Noel Brouillette
Paul J. Bruening
Vincent Bryce
Daniel Peter Buck
Andrew L. Buczyna
Thomas R. Burg
Edmund F. Burke
John J. Burke
James R. Burnett
Eugene Patrick Burns
Ignatius M. Burrill
Edward Bush
Donald J. Butler
Richard Edmund Butler
James R. Calhoun
John Walter Calicott
John J. “Jack” Campbell
Stuart B. Campbell
Alvin Campbell
James D. Campbell
Mark A. Campobello
Vincent Dan Minh Cao
John Joseph Casey
Terry Cassidy
Joseph Cernich
Michael Charland
Victor Lucien Chateauvert
Robert Chlopecki
Damien (Patrick) Chong
Joseph (Mark) Ciganovich
Daniel Cipar
Harlan B. Clapsaddle
William J. Cloutier
Joseph A. Colletti
James A. Condon
Louis Condon
Charles Conefrey
Thomas Considine
Augustine “Gus” Cops
Edmund Corrigan
Eugene Costa
Edward Courtney
Philip J. Coury
Robert Craig
Robert Creager
David G. Crook
Thomas Carroll Crosby
John William Curran
Norman J. Czajka
Richard de Ranitz
Owen da Silva (de Silva)
Philip J. Dedera
Garrett Neal Dee
Robert DeGrand
Arno A. Dennerlein
Crescente (Sonny) DeRivera
Walter George DeRoeck
Felipe Navarrette Diaz
Dominic Aloysius Diederich
James Diete
Francis Emil Dilla
Paul F. Dinan
Warren J Discon
Richard Dochstader
Robert Dodd
Michael E. Dorrler
Richard James Douaire
Thomas Joseph Dove
Kevin J. Downey
Daniel Michael Drinan
Michael Driscoll
Dennis Drugan
Lawrence Dudink
Thomas Gregory Duffin
William J. Dugal III
John H. Duggan
Anthony Dukich
Donald J. Dummer
Charles Van Duren
Bernardine George Dyer
Robert Eagear
Laurence Eagle
Francis Engels
Robert J. Erpenbeck
Leonard (Jeffrey) Fairfield
George Faller
John V. Farris
Richard Wayne Fassbinder
Theodore Feely
Joseph Fertal
Mark A. Finan
Lowell E. Fischer
John J. Fitzgerald
James Vincent Fitzgerald
Joseph L. Fitzharris
Eugene T. Fitzsimmons
Alejandro Flores
James Vincent Flosi
Salvatore V. Formusa
Ray Franzen
Michael Frazier
James M. Frederick
Robert Friese
John M. Furdek
Chester E. Gaiter
Thomas M. Gannon
Kenneth John Gansmann
Gerald B. Garvey
Jesus P. Garza
Rene (Bernard) Gawlik
Michael L. Gibbney
Lawrence M. Gibbs
Joseph C. Gill
Leonard J. Gilman
William (Patrick) Gleeson
Norman Goodman
William C. Graham
Carlos Griego
J. Gerard Griffin
Joseph Israel Guidry
James Craig Hagan
Rogers (Charles) Hannan
William Harbert
Joseph Havey
Gerald “Jerry” Robert Hechenberger
John Edward Hefferan
David F. Heimann
Ed Hennessey
Steven Henrich
Gilbert Hensley
Mel Hermanns
Jerome Heustis
George Hiland
James Hoder
Michael J. Hogan
John C. Holdren
Daniel Mark Holihan
George S. Hopf
Peter Alfonse Horne
Thomas Barry Horne
Carroll D. Howlin
Dennis Huff
Robert Hughes
Walter Edward Huppenbauer
Leonard Huske
Charles B. Irwin
William Isermann
Joseph Jablonski
James M. Janssen
Mark Jendrysik
Thomas Job
Robert J. Joda
William I. Joffe
Walter E. Johnson
Thomas J. Johnston
Augustine K. Jones
Stephen Juda
Paul Kabat
Raymond C. Kalter
J. Eugene Kane
Gregory Kareta
Edwin G. Kastner
John Kealy
Robert Louis Kealy
John James Keehan
Thomas Francis Kelly
Arthur Kelly
John Joseph Keough
Allan F. Kirk
Joseph Patrick Kissane
George Klein
Valentine “Val” J. Klimek
Leonard Paul Kmak
John (Gregory) Knoernschild
Bernard P. Knoth
Robert J. Koch (a.k.a. “J. Robert Koch”)
Peter D. Kohler
Adalbert (“Albert”) Kowalczyk
Raymond F. Kownacki
Philip Kraus
Robert (Barry) Kremer
Michael Francis Krol
George Kromenaker
Jerome (Jerry, John) Kucan (Kucon)
Richard Kuhl
Laurence Kurlandski
Richard James Kurtz
Severin Lamping
John H. Lane
Ronald Justin Lasik
Richard L. Lause
M. Duane Leclercq
Roland Jules LeCompte
Frederick A. Lenczycki
Joseph M. Lessard
James Lewnard
William R. Leyhane
Peter (Adrian) Lickteig
Bernard (Franz) Lickteig
Ronan Charles Liles
Eugene G. Linnemann
Edward Lohan
Larry N. Lorenzoni
Lawrence Lovell
Ralph Luczak
Ronald Luka
Raymond Lukac
William L. Lupo
Joachim Lux
Walter E. MacPherson
Norbert J. Maday
Gregory Madigan
Emmet Malone
Edward Maloney
John D. Malzone
Peter Joseph Marron
Thomas Marshall
J. Dennis Martin
Frank Martinez
Andrew (Dorfmeister) Masters
Leonardo G. Mateo
Robert E. Mayer
Laurence (Larry) Mayer
Kevin (Dennis Kevin) McBrien
Vincent McCaffrey
David F. McCarthy
Daniel J. McCormack
Robert Joseph McDonald
Donald J. McGuire
Francis McHugh
Patrick L. McLaughlin
Peter John McNamara
Patrick J. McNulty
Thomas McShane
William J. Meagher
John Paul Medvit
Louis J. Meinhardt
Anthony J. Meis
Thomas Gregory Meyer
Maurice F. Meyers
Gary M. Miller
Thomas W. Miller
Henry Miller
Thomas Miller
Thomas Joseph Mohan
Michael Montgomery
Phillip T. Mooney
Edward James Morgan
Charles A. Mrowinski
Lawrence W. Mullins
Donald John Mulsoff
Orville Lawrence Munie
Francis J. Murphy
Robert (Hugh) Murphy
Thomas Murphy
Donald O. Nastold
Francis X. Nawn
Walter D. Neary
Arthur “Art” W. Niemeyer
James A. Nowak
Jacques (Nijssen) Nyssen
Joseph Cullen O’Brien
William John O’Brien
Daniel (William Kevin) O’Brien
Gavin O’Connor
Donald G. O’Connor
James Patrick O’Hara
Frank O’Hara
Thomas O’Hern
Donald J. O’Shaughnessy
John Onderko
Anthony O. Onyango
John Baptist (J.B.) Ormechea
Dana Harold Ostdiek
Victorian Ostmeyer
Joseph Owens
Frank Paduch
Thomas Paramo
Thomas Parrott
Carter Partee
P.B. Patitucci
Alfredo Pedraza Arias
Carlos Peralta
Rocco Francis Perone
Toussaint Perron
Louis P. Peterson
Leo Petit
Roman Pfalzer
Juvenal Pfalzer
Francis Joseph Phelan
Gordon Pillon
Jerome “Jerry” Pilon
Aloysius Piorkowski
Anthony J. Pistone
Gregory James Plunkett
Donald P. Pock
Edward F. Poff
Sleeva Raju Policetti
Richard J. Poster
John J. Powell
Thomas J. Powers
Franklin (Felix) Prior
Leonard Prusinski
Raymond A. Prybis
Czeslaw (Chester) J. Przybylo
Konstanty Przybylski
Thomas P. Purcell
Samuel Pusateri
Ponciano Ramos
James F. Rapp
Jerome B. Ratermann
James M. Ray
Robert J. Reitmeier
William F. Rensing
M. Lawrence Reuter
Paul S. Reycraft
Claire Risse
Kenneth Roberts
John Allen Robinson
Louis P. (Meinrad) Rogge
John F. Rohrich
Russell Lawrence Romano
Andrew Ronan
Anthony J. Ross
Ronald W. Roth
Ivan Rovira
Richard M. Ruffalo
Kenneth Charles Ruge
E. Alan Ruppert
Daniel L. Ryan
Francis Lee Ryan
Daniel Peter (D.P.) Ryan
John J. Ryan
Jeffrey Salwach
Joseph E. Savage
Philip Scherer
Austin Schlaefer
Daniel Schulte
Laurence Schumacher
Edward Schuster
Joseph R. Schwaegel
Aloysius Schwellenbach
Gary Sebescak
Eusebio (Chevy) Pantoja Segura
Louis C. Shea
Gerald J. Simonelli
Jerome Skaja
Wilton L. Skiffington
Timothy Sklopan
Richard Louis Skriba
Raymond Francis Skriba
Francis A. Skube
Henry J. Slade (Slaboszewski)
Richard Slavish
John C. Slown
Gerald Smola
Marion Joseph Snieg
Robert E. Spangenberg
Francis Mary Sparacino
William J. Spine
Michael (Matthew) Sprouffske
Stanley Staniszewski
James R. Steel
Edward A. Stefanich
James Stein
Robert A. Stepek
Kenneth Stewart
Victor E. Stewart
James O. Storm
Ralph S. Strand
Gerald A. Streeter
James Patrick Sullivan
Charles E. Sullivan
Thomas J. Swade
Henry Peter Swider
Bruno S. Szczawinski
Alberto Remando Tanghal
Francis Tebangura
Francis Theis
Richard Gregory Theisen
Joseph S. Thomas
Bernard Tomaszewski
James R. Trepanier
Michael Trujillo
Joseph J.M. Tully
Camillus (Michael) Turkalj
Walter Joseph Turlo
John Turnbull
David Tushar
Emil Twardochleb
Donald Francis Ulatowski
Anthony Joseph Vader
Michael Van Acker
Roger W. Vaughn
David H. Verhalen
Clovis Javier Vilchez-Parra
William D. Virtue
Robert J. Vonnahmen
Phillip Vorlick
Vincent Casimer Waiches
Henry Joseph Walsh
Jeremiah Walsh
Oliver T. Walsh
Freddy Washington
Gerard “Gerry” M. Weber
John Benedict Weber
Walter Weerts
Bruce Wellems
William Wert
Frank Westhoff
Michael Howard Weston
Myles P. White
John Wielebski
Gordon Wilcox
Michael Winkels
Stanley T. Wisniewski
Louis Wojtowicz
Kazimierz (Casimir) Wronka
Francis (Lambert) Yore
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