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Chicago priest Pfleger `devastated' by sex-abuse allegations

by Don Babwin
| January 6, 2021 2:06 PM

CHICAGO (AP) — An activist Chicago Catholic priest who has garnered attention for taking on everyone from drug dealers to Jerry Springer said Wednesday that he is “devastated” by allegations that he sexually abused a minor more than 40 years ago.

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