CBS 2 Investigator Brad Edwards has been tracking the church's lies and the lives ruined for years.
– It took five years for the state Attorney General's Office to compile the bombshell report on Catholic church sex abuse in Illinois. The
But six years later, in 2018, Nowak was staying at the St. John Vianney Villa in Lisle. The problem was the villa was next door to a school. A local cross-country team ran outside his door. CBS 2 even spotted a boy scout troop's trailer nearby. Then there was the story of Father John Smyth. He turned the once money-hemorrhaging Maryville orphanage into a gold standard.Smyth was celebrated by a 9-foot-tall statue. But by the time he died, he had more than 20 accusers. There were four six-figure settlements from the Catholic Church. He was still praised at his funeral in 2019.:"When I went home on the weekend, it was blood in my stool.
CBS 2 also reached out to some of the survivors of Nowak. Their cases are included in the report but they worry there are still more survivors out there who aren't included in the new numbers.
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