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Washington University in Saint Louis. Saint Louis University. DePaul University College of Law.
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Barbara Blaine
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She was sexually abused during her teenage years from junior high school until graduation (the abuse occurred from 1969–1974) by a priest. She revealed this in 1989. The priest, Chet Warren, was removed from ministry and has been defrocked after she and others came forward.
Blaine was born in Toledo, Ohio, and currently resides in Chicago.
She has a bachelor"s degree from Saint Louis University, a master"s degree in social work from Louis and a law degree from DePaul University School of Law. Blaine worked as a lay missionary in Jamaica before moving to Chicago"s Edgewater neighborhood in 1983 to take a job with Pax Christi, an international Catholic peace movement.
She then held a decade-long position with the Catholic Worker, a social service agency. In 2002 she also worked as an assistant Cook County Public Guardian in Patrick Murphy"s office.
Toledo native Barbara Blaine crusades against sexual abuse in the Catholic church Toledo City Paper, cover story, April 29-May 5, 2004, by Bill Frogameni Mississippi Magazine - Women of the Year (2002) Survivor groups gain support amid priest scandal - Chicago Tribune How Deep the Scars of Abuse? - Washington Post.
