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Article: Victim describes abuse by priest 30 years ago Man says he wants to be sure officials 'fix the system'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 29, 2002
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Room 208. The reading room. It was down the hall from the balcony,
near the office, on the second floor of St. Catherine of Alexandria
school in Oak Lawn.
The man's memory of what happened there is clear, even though it
was more than 30 years ago.
He'd thrown a spitball. The teacher caught him. He had to go see
"Father" to be disciplined.
"Father" was the Rev. Donald Mulsoff, one of St. Catherine's
pastors. Mulsoff gave him a choice, the man remembers: Write "I will
not throw spitballs" again and again and again, and have his parents
called, or take a "bare-bottom spanking." He chose the spanking.