Who Is Reverend Michael Pfleger? Chicago Priest Accused of Sexual Abuse
On 1/26/21 at 11:54 AM EST
Reverend Michael Pfleger made headlines earlier this year when he was removed from his Chicago ministry over allegations of child sexual abuse said to have gone back decades.
The influential Roman Catholic priest, 71, stepped down from his parish in the South Side of the city on January 5, as authorities launched an investigation into claims that Pfleger abused a pre-teen boy in the 1970s. Now, another man has also come forward.
Pfleger vehemently denies the allegations.
Born in May of 1949, Pfleger was ordained as a priest for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago on May 14, 1975.
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Published January 1, 2021, 7:34 AM
Demonstrators marched through the frigid streets of Chicago Thursday in memory of victims of gun violence, which rose dramatically in the third-largest US city in 2020.
Nicole McGee (C), holds a sign as she walks during an anti gun violence march on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, Illinois, on December 31, 2020. – In Chicago, murders for 2020 through December 27 stood at 768, up a whopping 252 from the 2019 total of the 516. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP)
Police in the Windy City recorded 762 homicides in 2020, up 55 percent from 2019, according to a December 27 count. Shootings rose 53 percent, to 3,227 from 2,120 in the city of 2.7 million.
Up to 100 protesters, holding portraits of loved ones who had been shot, marched the snowy sidewalks waving flags in the city’s colors, but marked with blood-stained bullet holes.
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