United States: Jesuit spiritual director Donald McGuire convicted in state and federal courts
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Convicted
Authority role
Jesuit priest and spiritual director
Organization
Society of Jesus, Loyola Academy
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His victims were students and retreatants under his personal spiritual direction — the travel, the retreats and the access were all framed as formation.
- Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
- Pastoral or clerical authority
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Proceedings
2009-01-01 · state jury conviction; federal conviction and 25-year sentence
Illinois state court (2006); US federal court (2008–09). Donald McGuire, a Jesuit priest and prominent spiritual director, was convicted by an Illinois jury in 2006 on five felonies for abusing two Loyola Academy students in the 1960s, then convicted federally in 2008–09 for molesting a boy during international trips he arranged as spiritual direction, receiving 25 years. Dismissed from the Jesuits in 2007 and laicised in 2008, he died in federal prison in 2017. A separate Arizona indictment's disposition is unconfirmed and is not asserted.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- spiritual direction and retreats used to structure access
- international travel arranged as religious formation
Cited record
Sources
- national broadcaster court reporting sentencing report 'Former priest Father McGuire sentenced to 25 years in molestation case', ABC7 Chicago (2009).
Reports the federal sentence atop the 2006 state conviction.
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- https://abc7chicago.com/archive/6652683/ Corpus classification: national-broadcaster-court-reporting; evidentiary role: sentencing-report. SHA-256 0d5ab8b325d2fb60288bb1811d0e780be41e774c5e5797b0a90f2666308d84b4
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