Suburban woman accusing Catholic priest of sexual misconduct says: ‘I feel betrayed’
The woman says she was stunned at how her accusations were handled by the Diocese of Joliet — the arm of the Catholic church for DuPage, Kendall and Will counties led by Bishop Ron Hicks.
There’s no evidence church officials sidelined Sanchez as a result of the accusations until recently, more than a year after learning of them. This was after the woman filed suit, naming Sanchez and Hicks’ office as defendants.
Until then, the woman says Hicks’ office looked into her accusations but essentially branded her “a liar” even while concluding there likely was sexual contact but portraying it as “mutual, inappropriate, consensual behavior.”
The woman says there was nothing mutual about it. She says she had to fend off Sanchez and reported this to the police the next day.
According to her lawsuit, Sanchez, without the woman’s consent, “hugged plaintiff, spanked her buttocks, touched her left thigh, ran his hand up her dress, put his finger in her underwear, pulled her dress down, exposed her bra, kissed her shoulder and forcibly put plaintiff’s hand on his penis over his clothing.”
“I feel betrayed,” says the woman, who asked that she not be identified.
She says her treatment by Hicks’ office solidified her decision to sue. She says it’s not because of money but to help ensure that nothing like this happens again with Sanchez and also to push back against the contention she was somehow to blame.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdo...-ron-hicks
The woman says she was stunned at how her accusations were handled by the Diocese of Joliet — the arm of the Catholic church for DuPage, Kendall and Will counties led by Bishop Ron Hicks.
There’s no evidence church officials sidelined Sanchez as a result of the accusations until recently, more than a year after learning of them. This was after the woman filed suit, naming Sanchez and Hicks’ office as defendants.
Until then, the woman says Hicks’ office looked into her accusations but essentially branded her “a liar” even while concluding there likely was sexual contact but portraying it as “mutual, inappropriate, consensual behavior.”
The woman says there was nothing mutual about it. She says she had to fend off Sanchez and reported this to the police the next day.
According to her lawsuit, Sanchez, without the woman’s consent, “hugged plaintiff, spanked her buttocks, touched her left thigh, ran his hand up her dress, put his finger in her underwear, pulled her dress down, exposed her bra, kissed her shoulder and forcibly put plaintiff’s hand on his penis over his clothing.”
“I feel betrayed,” says the woman, who asked that she not be identified.
She says her treatment by Hicks’ office solidified her decision to sue. She says it’s not because of money but to help ensure that nothing like this happens again with Sanchez and also to push back against the contention she was somehow to blame.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdo...-ron-hicks
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
