Catholic priest who molested Cisco man when he was an altar boy sentenced to 10 years in a Wisconsin prison
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A Catholic priest who molested a Cisco man when he was an altar boy was sentenced Friday to 10 years in a Wisconsin prison.
Francis Engels, 69, of Kewanee received two five-year terms, to be served consecutively, on two counts of second-degree sexual assault for abuse alleged to have occurred during two overnight trips to Milwaukee in the early 1980s.
Engels entered Alford guilty pleas to the charges in April, which means he admitted assaulting Dan Koenigs, now 37 and living in Cisco, but that he does not remember doing so in Milwaukee, according to Jane Carroll, assistant district attorney with the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge David Hansher could have sentenced Engels to as many as 20 years in prison, but Koenigs said in a telephone interview Monday he is satisfied with the outcome.
"I feel like I've made a point, although it took longer than I would have liked," he said. "(Engels) messed with the wrong kid 23 years ago."
At the time, Engels was priest of St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Cambridge and Koenigs was a member of the parish.
The Catholic Diocese of Peoria removed Engels from public ministry in 1993 after he admitted molesting another teenage boy in the 1970s. Koenigs went to the diocese at that time to report his experiences but didn't go public until 2002 after his mother's complaints headed off plans by the diocese to reinstate Engels on a substitute basis.
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A Catholic priest who molested a Cisco man when he was an altar boy was sentenced Friday to 10 years in a Wisconsin prison.
Francis Engels, 69, of Kewanee received two five-year terms, to be served consecutively, on two counts of second-degree sexual assault for abuse alleged to have occurred during two overnight trips to Milwaukee in the early 1980s.
Engels entered Alford guilty pleas to the charges in April, which means he admitted assaulting Dan Koenigs, now 37 and living in Cisco, but that he does not remember doing so in Milwaukee, according to Jane Carroll, assistant district attorney with the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge David Hansher could have sentenced Engels to as many as 20 years in prison, but Koenigs said in a telephone interview Monday he is satisfied with the outcome.
"I feel like I've made a point, although it took longer than I would have liked," he said. "(Engels) messed with the wrong kid 23 years ago."
At the time, Engels was priest of St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Cambridge and Koenigs was a member of the parish.
The Catholic Diocese of Peoria removed Engels from public ministry in 1993 after he admitted molesting another teenage boy in the 1970s. Koenigs went to the diocese at that time to report his experiences but didn't go public until 2002 after his mother's complaints headed off plans by the diocese to reinstate Engels on a substitute basis.
Read the article at Herald
& Review Newspaper Website Dated June 7, 2005
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