Chicago Archdiocese adds 10 names to list of clergy with substantiated child abuse claims

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Thursday, November 29, 2018
Cardinal Blase Cupich
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CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Archdiocese of Chicago added 10 names to the list of clergy with substantiated claims of child sex abuse Wednesday night. None are currently in ministry.



Four of those names are Chicago priests who are no longer alive. The most recent death was in 1990.



Two of the names are deceased Chicago Deacons.



Two are international priests who served in Chicago, but are no longer in public ministry.



There are also two Religious Order priests who worked in the Archdiocese and who are also no longer in public ministry.



The full list of names is:



Archdiocese of Chicago Priests


Edmund F. Burke


Thomas Carroll Crosby



Dominic Aloysius Diedrich


Thomas Francis Kelly



Archdiocese of Chicago Deacons


Patricio William Batuyong


Louis Wojtowicz



Extern Priests



Sleeva Raju Policetti


Czelaw Przbylo



Religious Order Priests


Eusebio Pantoja, C.M.F.


Carlos Peralta, S.D.B



For more information visit www.archchicago.org.

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