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Photograph of a Christmas card sent in 2007 to a former parishioner by Catholic priest Sleeva Raju Policetti after he fled to India after being charged with assaulting a 16-year-old girl. Policetti would send decorated greeting cards to parishioners soliciting money for an orphanage and school he claimed he ran in India.
Michael Tercha, Chicago Tribune
Photograph of a Christmas card sent in 2007 to a former parishioner by Catholic priest Sleeva Raju Policetti after he fled to India after being charged with assaulting a 16-year-old girl. Policetti would send decorated greeting cards to parishioners soliciting money for an orphanage and school he claimed he ran in India.

Fugitive Priest

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Nearly a decade after a popular Roman Catholic priest was charged in Chicago with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old parish girl and then fleeing to India to avoid prosecution, Sleeva Raju Policetti remains a free man.

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