Summary of Case: A priest of the Oblates of Mary
Immaculate ordained in 1950 in Belleville IL, Fitzgerald moved in and
out of a number of dioceses during his career, including Belleville,
Springfield and Peoria IL, St. Paul and Minneapolis, Duluth, Crookston
and New Ulm MN, Sioux Falls SD, and Springfield-Cape Girardeau MO. He
was involved with orphanages in Peoria IL and Sisseton SD.
He returned to his Order in Belleville sometime in the early 1990s and died in 2009. Fitzgerald was accused in a 2010 lawsuit of having repeatedly sexually abused two residents of the Tekakwitha Indian Orphanage in the 1960s: a girl ages 4-13, and a 10 or 11-year-old boy. In a February 2014 lawsuit Fitzgerald was accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy in around 1978.
http://www.bishopaccountability.org/assign/assign/Fitzgerald_J_Vincent_OMI.htm
He returned to his Order in Belleville sometime in the early 1990s and died in 2009. Fitzgerald was accused in a 2010 lawsuit of having repeatedly sexually abused two residents of the Tekakwitha Indian Orphanage in the 1960s: a girl ages 4-13, and a 10 or 11-year-old boy. In a February 2014 lawsuit Fitzgerald was accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy in around 1978.
http://www.bishopaccountability.org/assign/assign/Fitzgerald_J_Vincent_OMI.htm
