Priest accused of child rape, porn, now AWOL from his religious community that covered everything up.
Rev. Richard J. McGrath, former president of Providence High School, in New Lenox, shown in 2006. Rev. McGrath is under investigation for sex abuse in Will County. | File photo
After the Rev. Richard McGrath was accused in late 2017 of having child pornography on the cell phone he used as president of Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox, he refused to turn it over to police or his religious superiors, thwarting a criminal investigation.
Another criminal probe was subsequently launched when a man who attended Providence in the 1990s accused McGrath of raping him back then – accusations contained in a lawsuit that was recently dismissed by a judge on a technicality but is likely to be re-filed.
The criminal investigation, now in the hands of Will County prosecutors, has not yielded any charges.
Through it all, the order of Catholic priests to which McGrath has belonged for decades, the Augustinians, stuck with him.
But it appears McGrath may not be sticking with them.
According to the Rev. Richie Mercado, secretary of the Augustinians’ Midwest province, McGrath “is unlawfully absent from the community.”
The Augustinians have deep pockets and the Left wants to pick them.
ReplyDeleteSo at next Sunday's mass, when they hit you up on a second or third collection, try to figure out how much of your charitable donation will be going to offset the civil suit filed by this victim. We're schooled to take responsibility for our actions, but as this case winds itself through the courts after serial sex offender McGrath is taken into custody, let see how much responsibility for his actions this pervert is prepared to take. In any outcome, we'll be picking up the tab for his room and board and he should be happy, now that state legislatures across the country are allowing access to porn sites in penitentaries. Maybe our Sheriff can ring on on this one with his pizza parties for abstainance from whacking off programs.
ReplyDeleteMohammed raped a seven year old but you don’t hear that in the news
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