Before Rev. George Clements died, Hollywood made a movie about him. But now, the Chicago Archdiocese is paying more than $100,000 to a man who claims Father Clements abused him during the 1970s.
In 1987, a made-for-TV movie called "The Father Clements Story" starred Louis Gossett, Junior, in the title role, and Malcolm-Jamal Warner as a youth he was helping.Archdiocese is paying more than a $100,000 to a man who says Clements sexually brutalized him.
The Boston-based lawyer has a movie connection of his own. Actor Stanley Tucci played Garabedian in "Spotlight," about clerical sexual abuse in Boston. The client in the Clements case, who still lives in the Chicago area and does not want to be publicly identified, says he was 7-years-old when the abuse began in 1974 at Holy Angels Parish.
"When he told his aunt about being sexually abused by Father Clements," Garabedian said, "his mother once again locked him in the closet and said, ‘don't ever speak about Father Clements in such a bad manner.’ Father Clements had everybody fooled."