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Passionists order, Catholic dioceses didn't reveal predator deacon James Griffith in their midst


Louisville Metro Police Department
More than a decade after pleading guilty in 1988 to sexually abusing a young boy in Louisville, Kentucky, Deacon James Griffith was moved by his religious order to a monastery next to Immaculate Conception School in Norwood Park.
The Passionists the Catholic religious order that at the time was overseeing the church and school just north of the Kennedy Expressway on the Northwest Side say he was assigned there in 2002 “to work in the provincial office” on the third floor.
But they didn’t initially tell Immaculate Conception parishioners about his child sex crime conviction or a lawsuit accusing him of molesting another Louisville boy in the 1970s. ....

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