Jesuit priest pleads not guilty to traveling outside U.S. to have sex with minorBy Jeff Coen
Tribune reporter
February 6, 2008
A Jesuit priest pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he traveled outside the U.S. to engage in sex with a teenage boy. Rev. Donald McGuire, 77, was present for his arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys in the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse. He was first charged in a complaint last fall and was indicted by a federal grand jury last week.
A Jesuit priest pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he traveled outside the U.S. to engage in sex with a teenage boy. Rev. Donald McGuire, 77, was present for his arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys in the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse. He was first charged in a complaint last fall and was indicted by a federal grand jury last week.
McGuire is charged with traveling with the teen to Austria, Switzerland and Nicaragua and with traveling interstate to Minnesota to engage in sex with him. The offenses are alleged to have occurred in 2000, 2001 and 2002. After he was charged, McGuire was released from custody but ordered confined to his Oak Lawn apartment.But McGuire, who is said to suffer from congestive heart failure, has been allowed to travel to a clinic in Cleveland for treatment. He is to return to the facility in coming weeks for follow-up treatment, his lawyer, Stephen Komie, said Wednesday. McGuire faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. He was convicted in 2006 in Wisconsin of molesting two students from Loyola Academy in Wilmette during trips near Lake Geneva in the 1960s. He is appealing his 7-year prison sentence. The Jesuits are seeking to dismiss him from their order.
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