This open letter to Rev. Donald McGuire, S.J., was written by the father of two of McGuire’s victims.
I am posting this letter with the author’s permission.
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OPEN LETTER TO:
November 21, 2007
“Reverend” (?) Donald J. McGuire
The Most Dangerous Priest in America
Oak Lawn, Illinois
Congratulations! You have successfully accomplished much of the work of your spiritual mentor, Lucifer. For at least 40 of your 46 years of Satan inspired priesthood you have ruined the lives of countless of young boys and their family’s with your forced pedophilia. A special place in Hell waits, unless before death, you repent and seek forgiveness. I never imagined so much evil could exist in one individual as it does in you, Donald McGuire! You as well as your cohorts, the Jesuits, have known of your deviant lifestyle for decades, yet have done nothing to stop it. With so many male prostitutes available for your perverted pleasure why do you target young innocent boys from decent families for your lewd and lascivious behavior? Is it because your deranged criminal mind only finds joy in murdering the souls of your countless innocent victims through your evil behavior?
In my October 8, 2007 letter to Judge James L. Carlson in Walworth County (WI) asking for revocation of bond and incarceration, as you certainly deserve, I noted how you have made a mockery of the Sacraments of Holy Orders (Priesthood) and Penance (Confession) as you often molested young boys (including mine) in the confessional. Since then, I’ve discovered your Sacramental Mockery #3 extends to Matrimony (Marriage) – You deliberately drove wedges between husbands and wives and to create an opportunity for you to essentially kidnap our sons for your world wide perverted sexual encounters, including in the convents of Mother Teresa, and continued to traumatize them. Also, your sexual abuse of our younger son, while you were in Phoenix to witness the Marriage of our oldest son (your earlier victim) is unconscionable. Sacramental Mockery #4 (Baptism) – Your eager willingness to baptize our three youngest children and stay at our home was obviously a deceptive ploy to sexually abuse our oldest son again, and again. Sacramental Mockery #5 (Eucharist) – On retreats you typically reserved the Blessed Sacrament in your bedroom at night, where you also sexually abused my sons and other boys. How much more demonic can you be? I can only pray that through your fraudulent and sacrilegious priesthood somehow this Sacrament was invalid.
You dare to tell the few supporters you have left that my sons’ motivation in filing a lawsuit against you and your co-conspirators (the Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus) is “for the money”. Even the Archdiocese of Chicago is getting on this bandwagon. If not money, which “medium of exchange” do you suggest as a trade off for the lonely, silent depression and shame you’ve put my two sons through for the past 19 years and 7 years respectively? It’s still far from being over, if ever. What about the constant, painful reminder we as parents feel that we ever allowed a then, unknown psychopathic child predator into our lives that destroyed forever the innocence of our sons? Are we supposed to sit around a campfire, hold hands sing Kumbia and hope all is forgotten? Whatever the final outcome, it will not have been worth the ongoing tears, anguish and humiliation that you, Donald McGuire, have caused. Certainly you know by now there are multiple criminal complaints filed against you in various counties where your despicable crimes were committed. The U.S. Attorney of Northern Illinois is prosecuting you for your malfeasants (Case #07CR 716).
What baffles me, Donald McGuire, is how in the twilight years of your life you don’t acknowledge your obvious guilt, apologize to the multiple victims, now young men, and their families and help us all begin the healing process. Even Jeffery Daumer, who ironically, had the same criminal defense lawyer, Gerald Boyle, as you did in your Wisconsin trial, sought and received partial forgiveness from some of his victims’ families before his untimely miserable death. You say: “I’m losing friends because people don’t know my side of the story” and “my lawyer says I can’t talk”. You’ve had ample opportunity to tell your story, yet you remain mute with a disgusting smirk. Why? In fact at your sentencing on July 18, 2006 in Walworth County, (WI) you swore on the Bible: “I wish I ignored my lawyers’ advice and testified in my own behalf. Given the opportunity for a new trial I swear I will not remain silent”. Your multiple motions for a new trial were all denied on November 1, 2007. So, now’s your chance; let’s hear your story. Also, you won’t have your lawyer at your side on Judgment Day. What will you do then? You never got permission from parents of your victims to introduce them to gay pornography or to impose your deviant sexual fantasies on them. Why do you now need permission from your lawyer to be contrite? Please let us know when you get the OK from your lawyer to apologize – then do it!
J.R.C. - father of: Victims 5 & 10 (see NPR.com for details, Search - Donald McGuire)
- aka: John Does’ 117 & 118 (Cook County, IL – Civil Case #2007L011952)
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6 Responses to “Must Read: A Victim’s Father Writes to the Priest Who Abused His Sons”
November 21, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Your letter really ripped my heart out. What a sad testimony to the state of the one, true, holy, roman, catholic church! If only you were referring to an isolated case.
The one thing you suggest that did bother me was asking the pedophile why he had used the services of “male prostitutes”. I’m not a health care professional nor a social worker, but I suspect that a great majority of male prostitutes are as much victims of pedophilia as a child as your sons were.
May your sons and your family find peace and justice.
Margaret Koenig
Tucson AZ
November 21, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Keep writing., JRC Please keep writing. . .
November 21, 2007 at 6:03 pm
J.R.C.,
Being a victim here in L.A. my heart goes out to you and your family. I tried writing to my sick perp with no response. Most of these sick pedophiles don’t have the guts to stand up and admit wrongdoing and this is what they preach. I fortunately had the opportunity to meet with the idiot in charge here in L.A., Mahony. I looked at it as my day in court and I ripped him a new one. As sick as my perp is and McGuire, the ones with the most guilt are the bishops and cardinals who looked the other way and treated us children as sacraficial lambs. I still hold on to the hope that they will spend eternity in HELL!!!
November 21, 2007 at 9:04 pm
As an abuse victim myself at the hands of nuns in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, I can understand the anger and pain here. But I must say, it is off the point.
These molesters are so sick that they are actually proto-humans stuck in a constant state of survival mode kind of like someone who is functional yet paranoid schizophrenic. They are not capable of being fully human and they all seem to have the classic narcissistic personality common to Catholic Religious. They are not fully human and will never be. For that reason alone, they deserve our pity.
No, the REAL villains here are the bishops who knew how sick these men and women were/are and allowed them to function over and over again at new locales. The bishops remain the demons that they have always been.
They all need to step down.
November 22, 2007 at 3:57 pm
It would be an honor for you to attach us to your list of links for survivors and their families. If you have any question please call 815.978.8082, 24 hours.
I also have a book that is being released after January 1st, (I missed my last deadline and I sincerely apologize), entitled “An Act of Compassion.” It should be in Barnes & Nobles Stores, Barnes & Noble.com or Amazon.com between 1/1/08 – 2/28/08. Again, I apologize for missing the deadline for those who wanted it by Christmas. Thank you,
Peace In Your Hearts, Minds and Families -
and a very Joyful Happy Thanksgiving and Safe Holiday Season,
Donald Bondick
PO BOX 5781
Rockford, IL 61125
Phone: 815.978.8082
April 6, 2008 at 1:26 pm
This is the best letter I think I have ever read. As a survivor myself it touched me in a very personal way. Thanks for putting in to words what so many of us feel. My perp was Fr Norman H. Christian he never repented of his sins of abuse, even when asked to by HIS family on his death bed. Pedophiles are so twisted… Thank God most of us can’t figure them out.
Tim Fischer