TearCollector
December 7th, 2011, 07:02 AM
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It was a scene of sheer terror overnight, two men accosted an 80-year-old Roman Catholic priest as he lay sleeping in his South Side rectory and brutally beat him.
As CBS 2′s Derrick Blakley reports, police say shortly before 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, the suspects broke into the rectory at St. Margaret of Scotland Church, at 9849 S. Throop St. in the Longwood Manor neighborhood, and found the Rev. Dan Mallette sleeping.
Blakley spoke briefly with father Mallette, who was badly bruised but in good spirits
Father Michael Pfleger also spoke with the beloved priest.
“He said he woke up and two people were standing over the bed and the first thing he knows he got hit,” said Pfleger. “He doesn’t know whether it was a stick, a bat or a cane. He got hit very hard and then they wanted money.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is a parishioner at the church, and was with Father Mallette since early Tuesday morning. He said Mallette was the victim of “a vicious, vicious assault.
”“He was completely taken by surprise,” Dart said. “He was sound asleep in his bed, and was awoken by two people standing there demanding money and threatening to kill him.”
Dart says Mallette was beaten severely, and suffered broken ribs and facial injuries.
As of Tuesday morning, Mallette was back home in his rectory after being treated and released from Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Police say the robbers did get away with some money.
Cont....http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/12/06/80-year-old-priest-severely-beaten-in-rectory/
It was a scene of sheer terror overnight, two men accosted an 80-year-old Roman Catholic priest as he lay sleeping in his South Side rectory and brutally beat him.
As CBS 2′s Derrick Blakley reports, police say shortly before 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, the suspects broke into the rectory at St. Margaret of Scotland Church, at 9849 S. Throop St. in the Longwood Manor neighborhood, and found the Rev. Dan Mallette sleeping.
Blakley spoke briefly with father Mallette, who was badly bruised but in good spirits
Father Michael Pfleger also spoke with the beloved priest.
“He said he woke up and two people were standing over the bed and the first thing he knows he got hit,” said Pfleger. “He doesn’t know whether it was a stick, a bat or a cane. He got hit very hard and then they wanted money.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is a parishioner at the church, and was with Father Mallette since early Tuesday morning. He said Mallette was the victim of “a vicious, vicious assault.
”“He was completely taken by surprise,” Dart said. “He was sound asleep in his bed, and was awoken by two people standing there demanding money and threatening to kill him.”
Dart says Mallette was beaten severely, and suffered broken ribs and facial injuries.
As of Tuesday morning, Mallette was back home in his rectory after being treated and released from Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Police say the robbers did get away with some money.
Cont....http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/12/06/80-year-old-priest-severely-beaten-in-rectory/