Lawsuit against Chicago Archdiocese alleges abuse
A Cook County man is suing the Archdiocese of Chicago and Cardinal Francis George, alleging he was molested in the 1970s by a dean at a Catholic high school.
The lawsuit alleges a now-deceased Augustinian brother, Christopher McCartney, attacked him in the dean’s office of St. Rita of Cascia High School where he was a student.
An archdiocese spokeswoman declined to comment because she hadn’t seen the lawsuit, filed Tuesday.
The Chicago Tribune reported that, according to the suit, McCartney pulled the student from class several times for misbehaving and molested him.
McCartney was dean of men at St. Rita’s from 1973 to 1978. He also worked at Maryville Academy in Des Plaines for a year and parishes outside Chicago until he died in 2002.
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