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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Robert Herguth

Catholic order, New Lenox school pay $2 million over accusation ex-principal raped a student

Rev. Richard J. McGrath, former president of Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox, in 2006. (Sun-Times file)

If Robert Krankvich could ask a question of the Rev. Richard McGrath, the Catholic priest who Krankvich says raped him when he was a student at Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox in the 1990s, it would be: “Why? Why me?”

The Augustinian Catholic religious order that McGrath belongs to and the school it runs that’s owned by the Diocese of Joliet has reached a $2 million settlement on the eve of a trial over a lawsuit Krankvich filed, lawyers confirmed.

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