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Joliet Diocese Fails to Protect Children: Catholic Teacher Jeremy Hylka Arrested on Sex Charges

May 12, 2021 | John Risvold

Sadly, the Diocese of Joliet is in the news again, this time for a failure to protect minors from a man who had been a teacher at multiple Catholic schools in the diocese. Jeremy Hylka, a teacher, father, and former youth minister, has been charged by Joliet police with child sex crimes. Specificall...

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